Desolator (Red Alert 2)

Red Alert 2
"Here comes the Sun"

- Desolator "MAKE IT GLOW!"

- Desolator

The Iraqi Desolator was a special infantry unit, wearing a specially designed anti-radiation suit(armed with a small amount of advanced bionics which improved their speed and strength) and using a powerful radiation cannon as his primary weapon. Their heavy, leaden suits slowed them down a fair bit and they almost universally had a raspy, tired voice.

While a potent anti-infantry unit with their rad cannon's primary mode of fire (a concentrated radiation beam melting down enemy soldiers), their true power lied in the way they could deny an area to the enemy by irradiating the surface, making passing through it lethal to infantry and damaging to light vehicles. Also, their radiation field can penetrate water, making them capable of damaging submarines and revealing them from their stealth. They are most effective at cutting off important choke points.

However, they had to remain immobile while deploying their cannon and could be easily taken out by enemy snipers, heavier vehicles or airborne units, such as Rocketeers, Harriers or Nighthawks.

By the Post-war Crisis, Desolators were no longer in service between the Soviets as Iraq was no longer a part of the World Socialist Alliance. It wasn't until the Uprising that the Soviet Ministry of Experimental Science introduced a new version of the Desolator. As nuclear weapons no longer existed, this new desolator used chemicals instead of a nuclear gun.