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Subject: List all UNSC Explosive Ordance

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Make a list of all explosive devices owned by the UNSC, give a brief description and what its made to do.

  • 07.19.2011 7:06 PM PDT

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Grenades...go boom.

  • 07.19.2011 7:07 PM PDT

Shiva Nuclear Missile: Ship launched nuclear munition.

Archer Missile: Ship launched conventional missile usually timed with a MAC strike.

C-12: 2552 equivalent of C4

Lotus Anti-Tank Mine: Flower shaped mine powerful enough to penetrate the ultradense armor of an M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tank

M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Main Shoulder-Launched SAM of the UNSC


Is that enough for now?

  • 07.19.2011 8:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: zak2014
Shiva Nuclear Missile: Ship launched nuclear munition.

Archer Missile: Ship launched conventional missile usually timed with a MAC strike.

C-12: 2552 equivalent of C4

Lotus Anti-Tank Mine: Flower shaped mine powerful enough to penetrate the ultradense armor of an M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tank

M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Main Shoulder-Launched SAM of the UNSC


Is that enough for now?


NOVA bomb: PK explosive, only two made.

HORNET mine: ~50 MT explosive yield, able to kill Covie medium-tonnage craft.

(Somewhat off topic, imagine taking a NOVA and filling the spaces between the warheads with weapons-grade naquadria. Solar system killer?)

  • 07.19.2011 10:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: SC Matt Klassen

Posted by: zak2014
Shiva Nuclear Missile: Ship launched nuclear munition.

Archer Missile: Ship launched conventional missile usually timed with a MAC strike.

C-12: 2552 equivalent of C4

Lotus Anti-Tank Mine: Flower shaped mine powerful enough to penetrate the ultradense armor of an M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tank

M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Main Shoulder-Launched SAM of the UNSC


Is that enough for now?


NOVA bomb: PK explosive, only two made.

HORNET mine: ~50 MT explosive yield, able to kill Covie medium-tonnage craft.

(Somewhat off topic, imagine taking a NOVA and filling the spaces between the warheads with weapons-grade naquadria. Solar system killer?)


Actually, HORNET MINE had yield of 30 mT, not 50.

And, NOVA bomb is calculated to be 30 gT. Not 1.2 peratons because 30 gT is enough yield to take out moon and scorch 1/4th of planet.

SHIVA Nuclear Warhead is likely to be 30 mT or 40 mT.

MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) can act as explosive due to Halo 3, shown three frigates fired its MAC at Forerunner dreadnought, it created mid sized explosion, about 2km large. We can assume that force generated from impact of MAC slug in 30,000m/s, generates explosive force. I might be wrong, although. Ask Robert or Stealth Slasher or somebody with degree of physics.

  • 07.20.2011 6:18 AM PDT


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Posted by: SC Matt Klassen

Posted by: zak2014
Shiva Nuclear Missile: Ship launched nuclear munition.

Archer Missile: Ship launched conventional missile usually timed with a MAC strike.

C-12: 2552 equivalent of C4

Lotus Anti-Tank Mine: Flower shaped mine powerful enough to penetrate the ultradense armor of an M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tank

M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Main Shoulder-Launched SAM of the UNSC


Is that enough for now?


NOVA bomb: PK explosive, only two made.

HORNET mine: ~50 MT explosive yield, able to kill Covie medium-tonnage craft.

(Somewhat off topic, imagine taking a NOVA and filling the spaces between the warheads with weapons-grade naquadria. Solar system killer?)


Actually, HORNET MINE had yield of 30 mT, not 50.

And, NOVA bomb is calculated to be 30 gT. Not 1.2 peratons because 30 gT is enough yield to take out moon and scorch 1/4th of planet.

SHIVA Nuclear Warhead is likely to be 30 mT or 40 mT.

MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) can act as explosive due to Halo 3, shown three frigates fired its MAC at Forerunner dreadnought, it created mid sized explosion, about 2km large. We can assume that force generated from impact of MAC slug in 30,000m/s, generates explosive force. I might be wrong, although. Ask Robert or Stealth Slasher or somebody with degree of physics.


30 gt is weaker then an SMAC.

So unless the thermodynamic energy released in an SMAC impact is suddenly 20 gt stronger then the moon....

I believe what you forgot to consider was the distance between the moon and the surface of the planet. Fireball/shockwave radius is a major factor in figuring out explosive yield.

The following is the current calculated strength of a NOVA, taken from Halopedian.


"Assumptions: the moon is 2km, and the NOVA bomb is only 5,000 km away.

Calc: Apply the Inverse Squared Law: Source Energy / (4 * Pi * R2) the radius is the distance from the source to the range.

x/ (4 * 3.14195... * 5,0002) = 4 Megatons per square kilometer to fragment a 2km moon which requires 8 Megatons to be fragmented.

x = 1.2 Petatons."

I, personally, find a 2 km moon to be hard to believe. Most moons, unless you're referring to Mars, are larger then an asteroid (and even then, Phobos and Deimos are larger then 2 km). Moons as we know them are easily the size of small/very small planets.

But as it stands, the only existing calculation assumes a 2km moon.

  • 07.20.2011 7:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Posted by: raganok99

Posted by: SC Matt Klassen

Posted by: zak2014
Shiva Nuclear Missile: Ship launched nuclear munition.

Archer Missile: Ship launched conventional missile usually timed with a MAC strike.

C-12: 2552 equivalent of C4

Lotus Anti-Tank Mine: Flower shaped mine powerful enough to penetrate the ultradense armor of an M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tank

M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Main Shoulder-Launched SAM of the UNSC


Is that enough for now?


NOVA bomb: PK explosive, only two made.

HORNET mine: ~50 MT explosive yield, able to kill Covie medium-tonnage craft.

(Somewhat off topic, imagine taking a NOVA and filling the spaces between the warheads with weapons-grade naquadria. Solar system killer?)


Actually, HORNET MINE had yield of 30 mT, not 50.

And, NOVA bomb is calculated to be 30 gT. Not 1.2 peratons because 30 gT is enough yield to take out moon and scorch 1/4th of planet.

SHIVA Nuclear Warhead is likely to be 30 mT or 40 mT.

MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) can act as explosive due to Halo 3, shown three frigates fired its MAC at Forerunner dreadnought, it created mid sized explosion, about 2km large. We can assume that force generated from impact of MAC slug in 30,000m/s, generates explosive force. I might be wrong, although. Ask Robert or Stealth Slasher or somebody with degree of physics.


30 gt is weaker then an SMAC.

So unless the thermodynamic energy released in an SMAC impact is suddenly 20 gt stronger then the moon....

I believe what you forgot to consider was the distance between the moon and the surface of the planet. Fireball/shockwave radius is a major factor in figuring out explosive yield.

The following is the current calculated strength of a NOVA, taken from Halopedian.


"Assumptions: the moon is 2km, and the NOVA bomb is only 5,000 km away.

Calc: Apply the Inverse Squared Law: Source Energy / (4 * Pi * R2) the radius is the distance from the source to the range.

x/ (4 * 3.14195... * 5,0002) = 4 Megatons per square kilometer to fragment a 2km moon which requires 8 Megatons to be fragmented.

x = 1.2 Petatons."

I, personally, find a 2 km moon to be hard to believe. Most moons, unless you're referring to Mars, are larger then an asteroid (and even then, Phobos and Deimos are larger then 2 km). Moons as we know them are easily the size of small/very small planets.

But as it stands, the only existing calculation assumes a 2km moon.


I understand, I read L-W's posts at Factpile about calculations on NOVA bomb, I was like, how? Maybe he made a mistake?

I'll post a link to that post very soon.

EDIT: Here's a link to his post, he claimed it was 30 gT for NOVA. Factpile

[Edited on 07.20.2011 7:34 AM PDT]

  • 07.20.2011 7:30 AM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.

A NOVA bomb has a yield much greater than 30GT, the Chicxulub impact that ended the Dinosaurs (link) was around 96 Teratons and the event that destroyed the Covenant colony world (Joyous Exaltation?) was far more energetic than that.

Bear in mind there are no shockwaves in space, the shockwaves on the planet are a result of the incoming radiation pulse superheating the atmosphere and causing it to expand. The same is true of the moon's destruction, one side is superheated by the radiation pulse, causing it to expand/explode and fracturing the rest.

This is an incredibly powerful bomb, easily in the petaton range, potentially an exaton range event. However precise numbers would be almost impossible to calculate from our limited information (how far was it from the planet, or the moon, how big is the moon etc...).

[Edited on 07.20.2011 9:07 AM PDT]

  • 07.20.2011 9:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: fxnavarro
Im gonna put them from strongest to weakest
Frag Grenades: Mini-nukes capable of destroying a fully armored Spartan despite it being 20 feet away.
All other explosives: Inferior and heavy compared to the frags. Infact, if every soldier was armed with Frags and Armor Lock the war would have been won on Harvest.


Let me remind you,

Game mechanics aren't canon.

  • 07.20.2011 9:19 AM PDT