Allied Assault Destroyer

The Assault destroyer was an Allied amphibious warship in Red Alert 3 and Uprising.

Background
''As the Soviet Union further encroached on its neighbors from every direction, the Allied Nations sought a versatile solution to coastal threats that could press onto the shore to secure a beachhead. Years of design conducted in secret, headed by the finest panel of international military vehicle specialists ever assembled by the Allies, resulted in the assault destroyer an amphibious warship featuring a highly accurate armor-piercing cannon suitable for land and sea warfare, as well as layers of specially-designed armor that can be activated to draw enemy fire away from otherwise-unprotected targets.''

''Assault destroyers were so massive that only Allied seaports are large enough to manufacture them, even though the vessels themselves were fully as capable on land as they are at sea. In fact, on land, the relative girth of assault destroyers was such that they dwarfed most other vehicles. On land, the assault destroyer could simply crush smaller vehicles, let alone enemy foot soldiers. Infantry were still considered a threat to these vessels, however, since its main gun is too bulky to be effective against them. Assault destroyers have similar handling characteristics both at sea and on land, though their typically-gruff, typically-proud captains scoff at this suggestion, pointing to myriad nuances such as how the vessels can only move in reverse while on land, and so forth.''

''The greatest strength of the assault carrier may be its defensive capability. Its reinforced hull could shrug off all but the most violent of concussive blasts, and each assault destroyer has the capability to activate a special magnetic field (allegedly based on stolen Soviet magnetic technology), which caused nearby ordnance to gravitate toward the assault destroyer instead of its intended target. Activating the black-hole armor field meant having to avoid use of their main guns for fear of internal combustion, though Allied forces tuned to the same encrypted frequencies as assault destroyers may fire through the black-hole field as normal.''

''Assault destroyers' black hole armor made them probably the single most reassuring sight that other Allied forces could hope to encounter on the battlefield. After returning from a successful counterattack against Soviet forces in France, one mirage tank commander famously quipped, "Today I love the assault destroyer more than my own mother, and I wouldn't be here if not for her."''