Atlas (Warhead)

This article is about the warhead; for the Imperial Guard vehicle, see Atlas.

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The Atlas-class was a heavy thruster-powered bomb of Imperial manufacture, designed for air-to-ground bombardment. It was typically deployed against large ground targets, such as hardened bunkers, citadels, Titans, or Super Heavy Tanks.^[1]

Atlas warheads were in production as far back as the Great Crusade; at the time of the Horus Heresy, several Atlas-class warheads were adapted for space-to-surface operations in order to disperse the Life Eater virus on Istvaan III.^[2]

Sources

• 1: The Blood Angels Omnibus by James Swallow, Appendix Angelus, pg. 604
• 2: The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel) by James Swallow, ^{[Needs Citation]}