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Atlas (Warhead)
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This article is about the warhead; for the Imperial Guard vehicle, see Atlas. |
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] It carried a megaton[4] atomic charge strong enough to crack a mountain. A Marauder Bomber was capable of carrying and deploying a single Atlas.[3]
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), Part Two, Ch. 9 A Prayer/Rain of Death/Refugees
- 3: Wings of Bone (Short Story) — On Wings of Blood (Anthology)
- 4: Deus Sanguinius (Novel) — The Blood Angels Omnibus, Chapter Seven
