M318 Heavy Recovery Vehicle

This article is about the vehicle featured in Halo Wars, Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike''. For other uses of the term "Elephant", see its disambiguation page''

The M318 Heavy Recovery Vehicle, also known as the Elephant, was a vehicle in use by the UNSC. It was designed and manufactured by JOTUN Heavy Industries. Heavy Recovery Vehicles such as the M318 Elephant have their origins in utility and farming equipment produced by JOTUN., which performed exceptionally well. This prompted the UNSC to contract JOTUN to produce military hardware such as the M318.