Strident-class heavy frigate

The Strident-class heavy frigate is a frigate class employed in the Post-War UNSC Navy; utilized primarily for escort of larger capital ships and for rapid offensive engagement.Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide - page 192 The can carry ten vessels of this class within internal docking bays.Halo 4 Limited Edition - Bonus Item: UNSC Infinity Briefing Packet The class was manufactured by Aerofabrique SA at shipyards at Tribute and Mars.
==Class History==
The Strident-class heavy frigate came into service in October 2552.Halo: Initiation Issue 1 
===Post-War===
Many Strident-class vessels were sent out to fight Covenant remnant occupiers out in the Outer Colonies.
At least one of these vessels, , assisted during the Battle of Draetheus V. It destroyed hundreds of Spirits and outmaneuvered the Covenant vessels in an attempt to deploy a unit of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers before it was heavily damaged and crashed into the surface of X50.Halo: Spartan Assault – Level: Operation C: Monolith - Mission 2, Spirit Graveyard Stand-Off
Several Stridents of Battlegroup Dakota participated in defending Earth from the Ur-Didact.Halo 4 - Level: Midnight
During the Second Battle of Requiem, UNSC Infinity deployed her compliment of Strident-class frigates shortly after arriving at the shield world; at least two would survive the initial phase of combat.Spartan Ops - Episode 1: Departure
==Design==
The Strident-class has been designed primarily to try and fix the issues of the previous frigate classes. It is known to blur the line between frigate and destroyer.Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo - Pages 38 & 38
===Propulsion===
The Strident-class has three engines.Halo 4 - Map: Daybreak
===Armament===
The Strident-class has a multitude of weapons systems. This included:
*1 Mark IV, Heavy Coil - 94B1E6/MAC
*2 M42 Archer Missile Pods
*6 M870 Rampart 50mm Point Defense Network Turrets
*1 M4093 Hyperion Nuclear Delivery System Silo
*5 Mark 55 Castor naval coilguns - The Mark 55 Castors on the Strident-class were known to be of two different types. Three of them were in a "quickshot" configuration paired with two smaller Arena gauss cannons.
*6 Mark 57 Arena point defense guns
===Layout===
====Hangar====
The Strident-class could only carry one Pelican inside a hangar. However, an additional three could dock with the ship at exterior hull clamps.
==Complement==
The Strident-class can carry up to four Pelicans. They also carry a number of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers and SOEIVs.Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide - Page 186
==Ships of the Line==
==Trivia==
*The Strident-class and s are the only design of frigate with no vehicle hangar located at the bottom of the ship. Instead it is replaced by a shuttle bay on each side of the ship.
*This is the first class of UNSC frigate known to be equipped with energy shielding, an unprecedented augmentation to its combat effectiveness.
*This class is 575 meters long, making it the largest known frigate class put into service within the UNSC Navy.
*343 Industries used a Strident-class heavy frigate to represent  in Halo 4 instead of the original Charon-class used in Halo 3.
==Gallery==
===Concept art===
File:H4-Concept-Charon-Frigate.jpg|Concept art of the that would become the main design for the Strident-class heavy frigate.
===Renders===
H4 Render-LowQuality Strident.png|Low quality render of the Strident-class frigate in the backdrop of the mission Midnight.
Strident frigate.png|Rear view of a Strident-class frigate.
H4-StridentHeavyFrigate-ScanRender.png|Frontal view of a Strident-class frigate.
===Exterior===
shielding.png|The shielding of a frigate in action.
H4 SO Infinity and Frigates.png|Two Strident-class heavy frigates escorting Infinity.
H4_Frigate.jpg|A Strident-class heavy frigate.
Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Oban 2.jpg|A Strident-class heavy frigate over Oban.
HSA EminentDomain crashing.png|A Strident-class listing forwards in orbit of a shattering Draetheus V.
==Sources==
Category:UNSC Frigate