Rad Missile

Space Marine Destroyer with Rad Missile Launcher^[2]

Rad Missiles were a type of Rad Weapon deployed during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.^[1]

These Terran-derived missiles are a horror of the genetic wars waged during the Age of Strife, using custom loaded-warheads which combine high explosive fragmentation charges lined with radioactive isotopes. The effect is to create an intensely toxic radiation weapon that inflicts a hideous death on its victim no matter their resilience. Because of its contaminating and hideous nature, it was deployed sparingly, most commonly by Destroyer Space Marines.^[1]

Sources

• 1: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pg. 232
• 2: Forge World