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[[Image:Urien.jpg|thumb|220px||Contemptor-Mortis [[Urien]]{{Fn|3a}}]]
Instead of standard twin-linked heavy bolters, this class is armed with two weapons of the same type - [[Multi-Melta]]s, twin-linked [[Autocannon]]s, [[Kheres pattern Assault Cannon]]s, or twin-linked [[Lascannon]]s.{{Fn|1b}} The Mortis is often fitted with a helical targeting array slaved to enhanced target-cursing logis engines that allow it to track its foe with unprecedented accuracy and which make it particularly deadly against enemy flyers.{{Fn|3b}}
Although used by all Space Marine Legions, the Contemptor-Mortis was most often deployed by the [[Dark Angels]] and [[Iron Warrior]] Legions during the later years of the Great Crusade. After thousands of years, a number of revered Contemptor-Mortis are still operational.{{Endn|43}}
Initially, the majority of Mortis sub-pattern Dreadnoughts were of the Contemptor type, but as the [[Castraferrum]] patterns Dreadnoughts have entered service in increasing numbers, this sub-pattern has been pressed into the anti-air role across all of the war zones of the Imperium.{{Fn|3b}}
*{{Endn|41}}: [[The First Wall (Novel)]], Chapter 15
*{{Endn|42}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/28/heresy-thursday-lead-the-charge-with-the-all-singing-all-dancing-contemptor-dreadnought/ Heresy Thursday – Lead the Charge With the All-singing, All-dancing Contemptor Dreadnought (posted 28/4/2022)] (last accessed 10/5/2022)
*{{Endn|43}}: [[Imperial Armour Aeronautica]], pg. 38
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