Rad Missiles were a type of Rad Weapon deployed during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.[1]
These Terran-derived missiles are a horror of the genetic wars waged during the Age of Strife, using custom loaded-warheads which combine high explosive fragmentation charges lined with radioactive isotopes. The effect is to create an intensely toxic radiation weapon that inflicts a hideous death on its victim no matter their resilience. Because of its contaminating and hideous nature, it was deployed sparingly, most commonly by Destroyer Space Marines.[1]
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pg. 232
- 2: Forge World