Mammoth Mk. III

"Unstoppable."

- Mammoth pilot


 * For more uses see: Mammoth tank.

The '''Mammoth Mk. III (GDI designation: Mammoth 27''') was a GDI heavy assault tank that entered service prior to the Third Tiberium War. At the time it replaced the Mammoth Mk. II walker as GDI's premier land assault unit.

Description
The tank was designed with long-range operations in harsh environments in mind. Its design is a return to the basic, four-tread system with a power plant in each track pod and thick armor to match enemy tanks head-on and defeat them in open combat. The tank was initially equipped with dual 150-mm cannons on the turret (which can be later upgraded to railguns) and comes, in the vein of earlier models, with two 4.75-inch missile pods specially designed to attack infantry and aircraft.

The vehicle was designed to incorporate an organic engineer crew to maintain it in the field. They could independently repair the vehicle to 50% effectiveness. However, the engineers were rarely carried.

An upgrade replacing the cannon with railguns became available prior to the Third Tiberium War, and vehicles continued to be retrofitted right through to the end of that conflict. Additional pre-war upgrade options included adaptive armor and railgun accelerators; these were mostly found in Mammoth's employed by the Steel Talons experimental combat technology division.

G-150
The G-150 Mammoth variant carried an infantry squad. G-150's were employed by the 22nd Infantry Division during the Third Tiberium War.

Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle
While not strictly a variant, the Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle Tiberium-abatement vehicle was derived from the Mammoth Mk. III.

History
Following the Second Tiberium War, GDI concluded the technology did not yet exist to make widespread use or deployment of walkers an optimal solution. The Mammoth Mk. II walker was slated to be supplanted by the less expensive Mammoth Mk. III. This decision was not without its detractors; Colonel Nick Parker opposed the discontinuation of the massive walker and claimed it was the result of "bureaucratic penny pinching" rather than an appreciation of military realities. Nonetheless production of the Mammoth Mk. II ceased in 2039. This was followed by the Mammoth Mk.III entering production in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Game Unit
Four Mammoths with the railgun capacitor upgrade may be defeated by six standard Avatars.