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[[File:IG5EHellhoundFlameTank.jpg|right|170px300px|thumb|A '''Hellhound''' firing its Hull and Turret Mounted [[Flamers]]]]
The '''Hellhound''' is an [[Imperial Guard]] flame tank, based on the chassis of the [[Chimera]]. It is armed with a large [[flamer]] known as an [[Inferno Cannon]], discharging lethal self-igniting chemicals to flush out infantry in dense terrain and urban combat zones. It is feared by all enemies because of its ability to cover a wide area with flames and cause horrific losses to units that cluster together.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2a}}
==Overview==
[[Image:Hellhound2.jpg|thumb|right|190px300px|A Hellhound in action against the [[Tyranids]]]]
Hellhounds are typically organized into either dedicated Hellhound Tank [[Imperial Guard Company|companies]] or support squadrons for armoured or mechanised companies, but will rarely fight together as a complete unit. Most commanders take a flexible approach to Hellhound deployment, attaching them to other units in an ad hoc fashion as needed.{{Fn|3}}
===Bane Wolf===
The Bane Wolf uses a '''Chem Cannon'''. Bane Wolves are used when the complete eradication of the enemy is warranted, as they smother their targets in broiling clouds of noxious gas that dissolve organic material in moments. The victims' blood boils in their own veins and their flesh sloughs from one as the mixture of toxins do their horrific work.{{Fn|2a}}
===Devil Dog===
The Devil Dog uses a [[Melta Cannon]]. Devil Dogs are able to tear through heavy troops and armoured tanks in short order. {{Fn|2a}} Instead of promethium Devil Dog uses pyrum-petroleum based mix. Sitting adjacent to its melta cannon, injectors within its weapons systems combine the two chemicals into a chamber.{{Fn|4}} When this highly volatile combination is firedthrough its melta cannon, the main weapons it make a high pitched howl as moisture in the air vaporises, becoming a roaring blast as the target detonates.{{Fn|2a}}[[Image:IGDevilDog 873x627.jpg{{Fn|thumb|center|200px|A '''Devil Dog''']]4}}
Against this literally devilish heat enemy troops stand no chance, even the most heavily armoured being incinerated in instant. However it is against enemy tanks and fortifications that the Devil Dog’s weaponry is most often used. Its technology believed to have been based on that used in distant past of Mankind to render down the toughest of ores and metals for use in constructing its colonies across the galaxy, is capable of making the most tanks or structures to little more than molten slag and steaming gas. This also often provoke critical failures in surrounding systems, causing the tank to explode or collapsing the building down upon those unfortunate inside.{{Fn|4}}
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IGDevilDog 873x627.jpg|A '''Devil Dog'''
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==Images==
<centergallery heights="170px" widths="300px" mode="packed" caption="">{||[[Image:IGHellhound 873x627.jpg|thumb|centre|200px|'''Hellhound''' - current model]]|[[Image:Hellhound.gif|thumb|center|250px|'''Hellhound''' - original model]]|[[Image:Artemiahellhound.jpg|thumb|center|170px|'''Artemia''' pattern '''Hellhound''']]|[[Image:Graiahellhound.jpg|thumb|center|170px|'''Graia''' pattern '''Hellhound''']]|}</centergallery>
==Sources==
**{{Endn|2b}}: pg. 101
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project]], pg. 110
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume One - Second Edition: Imperial Guard]], pg. 73
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