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Were you looking for the Type-52 Phantom or the Type-25 Spirit?

The Type-44 Troop Carrier, also known as the Phantom, is an earlier ship in the same family as the Type-52 Phantom. It saw extensive use at the hands of the Covenant Remnant after 2553 than it did prior. This is presumably because of the ubiquity of the Spirit before 2552.

Design details

Differing little from its successor, the Type-52 Phantom, the Type-44 serves as the equivalent to the Pelican dropships used by the UNSC in terms of both function and performance, serving as a troop transport and as a supporting gunship.

Like the Type-52 Phantom, the Type-44 Phantom is armed with a single chin-mounted Heavy plasma cannon with two plasma cannons. In addition to carrying multiple infantry, the Type-44 Phantom is also capable of carrying up to two Ghosts or one Wraith tank, just like the Type-52 Phantom, except the Spirit can take four ghosts. 

Combat

The role of the Phantom is to transport Covenant troops and vehicles into a combat zone with speed and efficiency while providing covering fire for disembarking units.

Changes from the T-52 TC

  • The propulsion drive now emits a greenish color rather than purple blue.
  • There is now a Phantom variant that has seemingly replaced the Covenant Boarding Craft and is equipped with extendable boarding tubes. These tubes are capable of breaking through the windows of a UNSC ship and projecting a shield to maintain atmospheric pressure while deploying troops.
  • Hunters are now carried underneath the Phantom instead of inside its troop bay. This can be seen in some episodes of Spartan Ops.
  • The Phantom regains the use of the auto-cannons that have seen use in previous models, though the concussion cannon variant is still in use and is far more common.
    • However, the cannon, on the T-44, can only turn 180 degrees, unlike the T-52. But being tougher to remove as well as an improvement in rate-of-fire.
  • Sniper Towers and Banshees can now be carried by the Phantom.

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