Editing Predator Tank (section)

=== {{anchor|Deimos Destructor}} Deimos Destructor Pattern Predator ===
[[File:DeimosPredatorDestructor.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A [[Red Scorpions]] Deimos-pattern Predator Destructor. Figures.]]
The Deimos pattern Predator is type of predator tank used during the Great Crusade, based on the early Predator models produced by [[Games Workshop]] back in the day and as such, is one of the oldest variants of the standard Predator Destructor main battle tank used by the Adeptus Astartes of the 41st Millennium. Sporting a much [[METAL BOXES|boxier]] hull and a rounded turret like the [[Fellblade]]. It is distinguishable from its modern counterparts however, by its notably heavier weaponry and exclusive ability to use the Executioner and Infernus patterns.

Each and every Deimos Predator was Artificer-crafted by the finest machine-wrights of the great forge-complexes of Mars. The Deimos Predator Destructor and its variants haven't been constructed on a large scale, or at all, since the [[Age of Apostasy]] (You can thank [[Goge Vandire|Asshat McFucknugget]] for that) for the Chapters of the Space Marines. The Deimos Predator Destructor is the standard pattern of Deimos Predator, and is armed with a turret-mounted [[Autocannon]] known as a Predator Cannon and two sponson-mounted [[Heavy Bolter]]s, one on each side. The sponson-mounted Heavy Bolters can be replaced with either [[Heavy Flamer]]s or a twin-linked [[Lascannon]]s (Turning it into a normal Predator Annihilator by function), depending on if the mission calls for close-range fighting or an enemy fielding a large number of armoured vehicles. The vehicle can also remove its sponson weapons entirely to reduce weight and increase speed, although this is rarely done for obvious reasons on bringing a tank with half its armaments on the battlefield.

The Deimos Predator can also be outfitted with a dozer blade, extra armor plating, a [[Hunter-Killer Missile|Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher]], improved communications equipment, a pintle-mounted [[Storm Bolter]], a searchlight, and smoke launchers. During the Great Crusade and subsequent Horus Heresy, when these vehicles were in service to the Space Marine Legions, they could also be equipped with an auxiliary drive system, armored ceramite plating, and even a Machine Spirit. Their pintle-mouted weaponry could include [[Combi-Bolter]]s or other [[Combi-Weapons]], a [[Heavy Flamer]], a [[Heavy Bolter]], or a [[Havoc Missile Launcher]].

It is still used by Space Marines in the present timeline and still produced, although only by Mars and is considered a relic.
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