When the missile detonates everything caught within the blast radius is instantly consumed by an immense thermonuclear fireball that can vaporise almost anything, including armoured units and buildings. The vehicle launches a single, intercontinental, solid-fuel ballistic missile, with an operational range of several thousand kilometres. Deathstrike Launchers are only found on the most apocalyptic battlefields and are only ever used when the total annihilation of a key target is absolutely necessary, and only after the unit using it has been authorised to do so by Segmentum Command. The Deathstrike Launcher is becoming a rare sight on the battlefield due to Imperial commanders' concerns about its vulnerabilities, the danger it presents to friendly forces, and their preference for other, more mobile and flexible artillery vehicles such as the Basilisk. The Deathstrike Launcher is built atop a modified Chimera chassis to which a complex launching system has been added that is capable of firing a single Deathstrike Missile. The Deathstrike Missile Launcher is a mobile ballistic missile launcher of the Astra Militarum that is capable of firing the intercontinental ballistic Deathstrike Missile which is often equipped with a warhead that is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.

Imperial guard missile launcher