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Don't make me nibble your bum...
I believe that Bungie will be bringing a new weapon into the game, titled the AA Needler(or something along those lines). Why? Read this passage from Halo: First Strike.
"Fred called up the mapping system on his HUD. A blue NAV marker, nestled in the crux of topological lines, identified their fall back position: ONI's Section Three secure and secret research facility buried under Mechanite Mountain. Two decades ago it had been a titanium mine, and then the abandon mines were used as storage until Section Three had taken over the mountain for their own purposes.
'We'll need to find a safe way through-'
A hail of purple white crystalline shards hissed through the air, arcing up from the forest beneath them. Each shard looked like the projectile fired by a Covenant needler - but far larger. The shard that slashed past Fred's cockpit was the size of his forearm.
Kelly dodged one projectile, which exploded in midair. Needle like fragments bounced from the Banshees fuselage. One tiny secondary fragment impaled Fred's Banshee and detonated. The port canard of his flier deformed from the explosion, and the craft wobbled."
So we can see from this passage that the Covenant have some sort of Needler AA weapon. More specifically, it was used on Reach. And, if the leaked pictures are genuine and show actual weapons in the game, then we can assume some sort of new Needler weapon. I've got my money on an AA weapon. Post your thoughts below.
[Edited on 11.20.2009 1:52 PM PST]