Honey Badger (weapon)

The is an assault rifle that appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Call of Duty Online, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. It has an integrated suppressor in most of its appearances.
==Call of Duty: Ghosts==
===Campaign===
The Honey Badger is seen throughout the campaign used by Logan Walker and Hesh. It is also used in "End of the Line" by Thomas Merrick and Keegan because of its integrated silencer. It is used by the Federation only in "The Hunted".
Curiously, despite being the signature and iconic weapon of the Ghosts, it is only usable in five missions: "Brave New World", "No Man's Land", "The Hunted", "End of the Line", and "All or Nothing". In later levels, it is replaced by the K7 submachine gun.
===Multiplayer===
The Honey Badger is a costly weapon, demanding nine Squad Points to unlock it. However, it can be unlocked by default if using the Stealth package.
At any range before nineteen meters, the Honey Badger will deal 42 damage per bullet, resulting in a three shot kill, or a two shot kill if both shots hit the head. Damage decreases linearly afterwards until 33 meters, where the Honey Badger deals twenty damage per bullet, requiring a five shot kill (headshots will not result in a four shot kill), or a two shot kill in Hardcore game modes. The Honey Badger has a three shot kill range of 24 meters, and a four shot kill range of 29 meters. In Hardcore, the Honey Badger has a one shot kill range of roughly 26 meters. The Honey Badger has medium penetration power.
The Honey Badger fires fully automatically, with a fire rate of 800 RPM.
The Honey Badger has recoil values of 58 to the left, 58 to the right, 63 upwards, and 58 downwards. The Honey Badger has a centerspeed value of 1600. The Honey Badger's recoil is 30% smaller on the first shot in a burst. The Honey Badger has moderate idle sway, and it is tied with the MSBS for the fastest idle sway speed on any assault rifle.
The Honey Badger allows users to move at ninety percent of the base speed, or strafe at 36% of the base movement speed. The Honey Badger allows users to aim down the sights in 300 milliseconds, and the hip-fire spread is average. The Honey Badger's reload animation is 2.63 seconds long, or 3.16 seconds long for an empty magazine. The user can Reload Cancel the Honey Badger after 1.53 seconds. 
The Honey Badger has a default magazine capacity of thirty rounds, and a default starting ammo loadout of ninety rounds.
The Honey Badger's defining characteristic is its integrated Silencer. This is a free attachment that cannot be removed, and as such, doesn't take up an attachment slot in Create-A-Soldier. This also means that the Honey Badger cannot equip any barrel attachments. All available attachments function as expected on the Honey Badger.
===Extinction===
As of the update for Nemesis, the Honey Badger is only available on Chaos Mode for Point of Contact and Mayday. In solo and multiplayer for both of those maps, it was replaced entirely by the AK-12 and the ARX-160.
The Honey Badger previously appeared in solo play and multiplayer Extinction, on the maps Point of Contact and Mayday for $2000. In Point of Contact, it was located in the barn, in the cabin area. In Mayday, it was on the catwalk with the tentacle. 
The Honey Badger featured a 35 round magazine and one of the fastest rate of fires of any assault rifle in Extinction, with moderate accuracy and moderate reload speed to boot. However, it provided slightly less reserve ammo than the smaller-magazined SA-805. The Honey Badger also suffered from a short range and poor ranged damage, which could not be mitigated by equipping a Muzzle Brake. 
In Point of Contact, the Honey Badger was very unpopular to use, as it was located in a very inconvenient area, in addition to being accessible very late into the map, with the player having already passed by two fully automatic assault rifles well before accessing the Honey Badger. Even if players acknowledged where it was and even if players liked the Honey Badger, said players usually had assault rifles already. This made the Honey Badger have poor ranged performance relative to other assault rifles, and that can come into play quite commonly at this stage of the map. 
On Mayday, the Honey Badger proved to be a much more popular choice due to the reduced selection of longer ranged weaponry on the map, especially those that were available early on. The Honey Badger was the only assault rifle available until the ARX-160 was provided later on in the map. The closer confines of Mayday made the Honey Badger's range shortcoming much less relevant, and the Honey Badger's higher rate of fire proved to be useful.
===Attachments===
====Integral====
*Silencer
====Sights====
*Red Dot Sight
*ACOG Scope
*Holographic Sight
*VMR Sight
*Thermal Hybrid Scope
*Tracker Sight
====Under Barrel====
*Foregrip
*Shotgun
*Grenade Launcher
====Mod====
*Extended Mags
*Armor-Piercing
*Semi-automatic
*Burst Fire
===Gallery===
Honey Badger model CoDG.png|A render of the model
Honey Badger CoDG.png|The Honey Badger in first-person view
Honey Badger Iron Sights CODG.png|Iron sights
Honey Badger reloading CoDG.png|Reloading
COD Ghosts Something's Burning.jpg|A soldier wielding the Honey Badger
Honey Badger Create-a-Soldier CODG.PNG|The Honey Badger as it appears in Create-a-Soldier
===Videos===
Call of Duty Ghosts Multiplayer Gameplay CHASM (Domination)|Gameplay with the Honey Badger on map Chasm, game mode Domination.
==Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered==
The Honey Badger appears in Modern Warfare Remastered as the Lynx CQ300. It was added on the August 8th, 2017 update, and this time the silencer is not an integrated attachment, but an optional one.
The Lynx CQ300 kills in 3-5 shots depending on range. Even though head shot multipliers are lower than most other assault rifles, head shots still generally reduce the number of bullets needed to kill by one. Equipping Stopping Power reduces this to 2-4 shots, making the weapon superior to most assault rifles within effective range. Range, however, is shorter than average for assault rifles. Adding a Silencer exacerbates this weakness. While the Lynx CQ300 has low long-range damage, it's still relatively easy to score hits due to its low recoil.
Although the range is shorter, it has no idle sway even when the ACOG Scope is attached. Aiming the ACOG Scope also takes up less of the screen than other weapons, giving the Lynx CQ300 some accuracy advantage; using the ACOG Scope however will also slow down the aim down sight speed like other assault rifles and SMGs.
The weapon shares reserve ammunition with the AK-47 and the XM-LAR.
===Attachments===
*Grenade Launcher (M203)
*Red Dot Sight
*Silencer
*ACOG
==Call of Duty Online==
The weapon appears in Call of Duty Online as the AAC.
==Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II & Modern Warfare III==
The Honey Badger returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II as the Chimera.
The Chimera is also available in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as part of the Modern Warfare II content carryover.
===Overview===
====Campaign====
The Chimera appears as the player's only weapon during the mission "Strike", where Simon "Ghost" Riley is the playable character. It sports a unique black finish that also features the on the side of the gun below the rear sights, and it is equipped with the 10" SA Phoenix unsuppressed barrel and the Ravage-8 stock. Ghost can also be seen using the Chimera in this configuration in "Cartel Protection", "Close Air", "Prison Break" (opening cutscene), and "Ghost Team", whereas in "Kill or Capture" he uses one with the standard tan finish, integral suppressor, and stock.
In the Modern Warfare III campaign, the Chimera is not available to the player. Nevertheless, Ghost continues to use it in both configurations. In addition, the black version is sometimes carried by Farah Karim, and the standard suppressed version is used by SFOs in the final mission "Trojan Horse".
====Multiplayer====
The Chimera was added on December 14th, 2022 as part of the Modern Warfare II Season One Reloaded update. It can be unlocked for free by earning two kills with an assault rifle in fifteen different multiplayer matches or by extracting the weapon from Building 21 in DMZ.
====Zombies====
In Modern Warfare III, the Chimera can be brought into Operation Deadbolt via Create-A-Class, at Common rarity and can be found at any rarity via the Mystery Box for 950 Essence. When upgraded via the Pack-a-Punch Machine or with Aetherium Crystals, it becomes the Dead Wish.
===Attachments===
====Muzzle====
*Eight-Point Flash Hider
*TZL-90 V3
*Cronen Dark KX30
*Husher-65 Silencer
*Polarfire-S
*ZLR Talon 5
*Echoline GS-X
*Zulu-60
*Kastovia DX90
*Tempus GH50
*TY-LR8
*Lockshot KT85
*SA Leveler 55
*Bore-490
*Sakin Tread-40
*GL Clear Breach
*Ta Hul-Breach KL
====Barrel====
*10" SA Phoenix
*5.5" EXF OP-40
*6.5" EXF Vorpal
====Laser====
*1mw Artemis Laser
*1mw Quick Fire Laser
*Accu-Shot 5mw Laser
*VLK LZR 7mw
*Schlager ULO-66 Laser
*Stovl Tac Laser
*Hipshot L20
*Point-G3P 04
*FJX Ultrabeam XR
*EXF Solarflare
====Optic====
*JAK Bullseye (Modern Warfare III)
*Cronen Intlas MSP-12 (Modern Warfare III)
*JAK Glassless Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*TPS Incendio Reflex (Modern Warfare III)
*Intlas CAS-14 (Modern Warfare III)
*KR Intlas LSJ-3 (Modern Warfare III)
*Slate Reflector (Modern Warfare III)
*XTEN ERX-10 Mini (Modern Warfare III)
*MORS Dot Sight (Modern Warfare III)
*Slimline Pro 
*SZ Mini
*Cronen Mini Dot
*Cronen Mini Pro
*SZ Sigma-IV Optic
*SZ Minitac-40
*KR Minitac-40 Riser (Modern Warfare III)
*FSS Spectre Microtherm (Modern Warfare III)
*QTG Reflex Sight (Modern Warfare III)
*Caucasus Reflex Sight (Modern Warfare III)
*Nydar Model 2023 (Modern Warfare III)
*MK.3 Reflector (Modern Warfare III)
*Dragon's Eye Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*Quarters Classic Reflex (Modern Warfare III)
*JAK NRG-IV Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*XRK On-Point Optic
*AIM OP-V4
*DF105 Relfex Sight
*Monocle CT90
*Corvus SOL-76
*SZ Recharge-DX
*SZ SRO-7
*Corio RE-X Pro
*KR V4 1X Riser (Modern Warfare III)
*Chrios Holo (Modern Warfare III)
*Corio Enforcer Optic
*SZ Lonewolf Optic
*Kazan-Holo
*SZ Battle Optic
*Corvus Downrage-00
*XTEN Angel-40
*SZ Holotherm
*Corio ELT-10 2.5 (Modern Warfare III)
*KR Mortis Precision 2.5x (Modern Warfare III)
*Corio Eagleseye 2.5x (Modern Warfare III)
*SL Truesight 2.5x (Modern Warfare III)
*Holo-Craft Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*KR Marauder 9 Riser (Modern Warfare III)
*TOS Nightfall 2.5x Thermal Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*AOK 4.0x RQ-9 Recon (Modern Warfare III)
*TX4 Havoc (Modern Warfare III)
*VLK 4.0 Optic
*Schlager 3.4x
*FORGE TAC Delta 4
*Cronen Zero-P Optic
*SZ Bullseye Optic
*SZ Aggressor-IR Optic
*Schlager Night View
*VX350 Thermal Optic
*Teplo-OP3 Scope
*Heinrichter Hybrid Scope (Modern Warfare III)
*SZ HM5 Precision Hybrid Optic (Modern Warfare III)
*Corvus Ghostview (Modern Warfare III)
*DR582 Hybrid Sight
*Hybrid Firepoint
*SZ Vortex-90
*BPZ40 Hybrid
*SZ Oscar-9
*Angel-40 4.8x
*Thermo-Optic x9
*Teplo Clear Shot
*FTAC Charlie7
*HMW-20 Optic
*Luca Bandera Scope
*DS Farsight 11
*3x RFL-Optic
*Drexsom Prime-90
*Ares Clear Shot
*Vigilant-30 C-Iron
====Stock====
*TRX-56 Stock
*Ravage-10
*M13C Factory Stock
*M13C FS Collapsed
====Underbarrel====
*Bruen Commando Foregrip
*Edge-47 Grip
*Demo Firm Grip
*XTEN Gravedigger
*FTAC Ripper 56
*Demo Cleanshot 40
*Demo IMP-44 Grip
*FTAC Tiger Grip
*FSS Sharkfin 90
*Agent Grip
*Bruen Sync Shot Grip
*XTEN Drop Grip
*Phase-3 Grip
*Merc Foregrip
*Lockgrip Precision-40
*Hex-40 Grip
*Schlager Tango
*VX Pineapple
*OP-X9 Foregrip
*Operator Foregrip
*TV Wrecker Grip
*Bruen Tilt Grip
*Cronen Grooveshot Grip
*Bruen Warrior Grip
*Bipod V9 Grip
*Core BP2
====Magazine====
*20 Round Mag
*45 Round Mag
====Ammunition====
*.300 BLK Frangible
*.300 BLK Hollowpoint
*.300 BLK Armor Piercing
*.300 BLK Overpressured P+
====Rear Grip====
*Bruen GR-500
*D37 Grip
*Bruen Flash Grip
====Receiver====
*BAS-P
*M13B
*M13C
*Chimera
===Blueprints (Modern Warfare II)===
Blueprint 	Image	How to Obtain
Beastly 	 	Alpha Burn Bundle
Darkcell 	 	Dark Skies Bundle
Dead Quiet 	 	Banshee Scream Bundle
Feelin' Froggy 	 	Tracer Pack: Poison Dart Bundle
Geosync 	 	For Markino Bundle
Hissing Envy 	 	VII: Envy Bundle
Jogger 	 	Tactical Human 2.0 Bundle
Killfeed 	 	Battle Buddy: Chatter Pack Bundle
Nullify 	 	Battle Pass Season Two Sector B20
Pro Issue Chimera	 	Reach Top 5 or below 10 times in Ranked Play in Warzone 2.0 during Season Three.
Quiet Rage 	 	The Boys: Black Noir Operator Bundle
Saekdong 	 	Year of the Rabbit Bundle
Shred 	 	Fresh Powder Bundle
Silver Tox 	 	Extract with the Weapon Case 6 times in Building 21 in DMZ.
Solo Yolo 	 	WSOW Solo Yolo Pack Bundle
Stonebreaker 	 	Battle Pass Season Five Sector E17
Superheat 	 	Tracer Pack: Damascus Forge 2 Bundle
The Depths 	 	Deepwater Bundle
The Haunted 	 	Battle Pass Season Three Sector C20
Tinsel 	 	Merry Mayhem Bundle
===Blueprints (Warzone Mobile)===
Blueprint 	Image	Rarity 	How to Obtain
Infectious Remedy	 	Legendary	Infectious Remedy The Keep
Phantom Harvester	 	Epic 	Silent Scream The Keep
===Gallery===
Promo4 MWII.jpg|A promotional image of Ghost with the Chimera in "Cartel Protection". In the actual game, it is fitted with the Ravage-8 stock.
Chimera Alternative Icon MWII.png|An alternative icon of the Chimera, with the notable difference is that the gun is coated in a mix of black and grey paint.
==Trivia==
===Call of Duty: Ghosts===
*"RLVOR" and "64/21" can be seen written on the charging handle. Also, "NV" is written just above the magazine.
*The word “BADGER” is written on the side of the gun.
===Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare===
*In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the NV4 assault rifle has a variant called "Honey-B", with the description stating that it modifies the firing characteristics in a way reminiscent of the Honey Badger.
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II===
*The custom Chimera used by Ghost in the campaign appears as a Weapon Blueprint in multiplayer called "The Haunted", unlockable though the Season Three Battle Pass.
*The description of the "Sliver Tox" blueprint, Prototype weapon #AG-107.8682, references the symbol (AG) and atomic weight (107.8682) of .
*The serial number of the Chimera is "GI 0295".
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