![]() ![]() ![]() The instrumentation package available to the driver or passenger include GPS, navigational assisatance, emergency beaconing and dataports. The base model of the M12 has no doors and has a total seating of two (though additional personnel can be carried in the cargo bed, be it a single gunner or multiple additional riders). The M12 Warthog shares parts – and handling characteristics – with the Spade and its sibling frontier trucks, which means that many recruits are already proficient with basic vehicle maintenance and off-road driving skills before they ever arrive at UNSC boot camp. The Warthog is prone to rolling over on tight corners. Massive disc brakes and its automatic braking systems allow the vehicle to come to a near immediate, but controlled stop should the driver be ejected, or choose to leave the vehicle. With proper application of the hand, or "e-brake" the M12 can actually turn on a dime. The Warthog has superb traction on off-road terrain and an updated braking system alongside enhanced suspension. Īll M12-based vehicles are designed to travel both on and off-road, in all weather conditions though it is regarded as a huge, unwieldy, difficult to steer vehicle - until a user learns how to drive it properly. The Warthog can employ " Slop" to help render carbon heavy matter into useable fuel for the power plant or employ a Graf/Hauptman Solar/Saline Actuator to filter water or crack it into fuel. and its hydrogen tanks can power a maximum range of 790 kilometres (490 mi). M12 Warthog variants can have a top speed of 125 kilometres per hour (78 mph) or 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph). M12 Warthogs can use a four-wheel or all-wheel drive system, with active 4 or all-wheel steering, a manual transmission and a 12 litre hydrogen-injected ICE The ICE powers an infinitely variable transmission. By the later stages of the Human-Covenant War, a second chassis variant of the M12 known as the M12B Warthog entered service with some UNSC units. The M12 and its predecessors such as the Z-12 have been a part of the UNSC's mechanized infantry divisions and armored vehicle divisions since 2319, and is the most publicly recognizable vehicle in their arsenal. The most ubiquitous models are the M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle variants, which is equipped with advanced surveillance and a turret-mounted machine gun for a basic defensive capability. The M12 Warthog is the most common series within wider Warthog family of vehicles, and saw service throughout the Insurrection and Human-Covenant War until the introduction of the M12B Warthog by late 2552. The M12 Force Application Vehicle ( M12-FAV), more commonly known as the Warthog or simply the Hog, is a fast attack vehicle serving as the United Nations Space Command Armed Forces' primary joint light tactical ground vehicle. ![]() " On the battlefield speed is life and the M12 has that in spades – having a great big damn gun don’t hurt, either." - Anonymous E2-BAG/1/7 personnel
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