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==Overview==
Originally designed to get through the ''Ring of Death'' surrounding the city of [[Aries Primus]] on [[Mars]], the standard Land Raider at the time could not transport Terminators{{Fn|1}}. Such was the lethality of the ''Ring of Death'' 's plasma defence systems, that even with use of the Spartans, only the fraction of Terminator squads could hope to survive the advance.{{Fn|4a}} The design is based off the famous [[Land Raider]].{{Fn|2}}
The original Spartan had the standard [[Land Raider]] armament, of two [[twin-linked]] [[lascannon]]s (heavy bolters were not standard then) but also mounted either a [[heavy bolter]] or [[flamer|heavy flamer]] on a turret on top. It was widely spread after the Heresy, but disappeared when the standard Land Raider was re-designed to carry [[Terminator]]s.{{Fn|1}}
The Spartan design used today features the twin hull-mounted heavy bolters seen on contemporary Land Raider designs, as well as a pair of sponsons fitted with a deadly quad-lascannon battery each. It is able to transport 25 Space Marines in [[power armour]] and has the largest transport capacity of any dedicated transport vehicle used in the Imperium save the [[Gorgon Armoured Assault Transport|Gorgon]]{{Fn|3}}. Additionally, it is considerably faster than other Land Raider variants despite its increased size, due to its reactor-driven motive drive systems and secrets{{Fn|2}}.
==Known Named Spartan Tanks==
*''[[Sire of Calth]]'' — of the [[Ultramarines]].{{Fn|4c}}
==Images==
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==Related articlesSee also==* [[Land Raider#Known Variants|Land Raider Variants]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[White Dwarf 119 (UK)]] (1989), pg. 60 — ''The Spartan'', by Rick Priestley
*{{Endn|2}}: [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space-Marine-Tanks/SPARTAN_ASSAULT_TANK.html Forge World - SPARTAN ASSAULT TANK] ''(last accessed 23 May 2015)''
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]], pg. 222
**{{Endn|4b}}: pg. 118
**{{Endn|4c}}: pg. 119
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned]] , pg.66
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