Glaive

The Glaive, also known as the Legion Glaive or the Glaive Super-Heavy Spacial Weapons Tank, was a variant of the highly-advanced Fellblade super-heavy battle tank fielded by the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and later during Horus Heresy and Great Scouring. The Glaive is was designed by the Mechanicum as a special weapons vehicle that makes use of the Volkite Carronade, one of the largest known Volkite Weapons ever used by the Imperium. This massive weapon was designed to destroy xenos beasts and incinerate enemy light vehicles in a single fell sweep.

History
During the Great Crusade the Glaive was issued to all eighteen of the Legiones Astartes in limited quantities, with several of the Legions, most notably the Dark Angels and the Salamanders, having long been known to have fielded Glaives as a matter of course. It is known that currently within the 41st Millennium only the Dark Angels and Salamanders Chapters are still able to field these engines of war, the former due to seniority and honour as former 1st Legion and the latter due to their skilled arctificers that are still able to maintain and replicate the arcane technology. It is not known whether any other loyalist Chapters or Chaos Space Marine warbands are still able to field these ancient relics of destruction.

Armament
The Glaive's main armament consists of a turret-mounted Volkite Carronade, a massive Volkite Weapon that is capable of destroying enemy vehicles in a single shot. Volkite Weapons produce a deflagrating attack, in which subsonic combustion caused by a beam of thermal energy propagated through a material through thermodynamic heat transfer, so that hot burning material heated the next layer of cold material and ignited it. The Volkite Carronade used by the Glaive was able to make short work of all but the most heavily armoured enemy vehicles and structures. The Glaive was also armed with other secondary weapons systems, including sponson-mounted Quad-Lascannons and hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters or twin-linked Heavy Flamers. The sponson weapons could also be replaced with a set of Laser Destroyer Arrays. The Glaive was also usually outfitted with both smoke launchers and a searchlight, but could also be equipped with a Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher and armoured Ceramite plating.

Also See

 * Imperial Vehicles

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