During a prolonged Imperial campaign, Imperial Navy airbases can be established on the ground, yet due to the Marauder's extreme range these aircraft are normally based safely behind the front, sometimes even on another continent from the frontlines.ĭuring ground assault missions, Astra Militarum forces will mark the enemy's positions with coloured flares, allowing the Imperial Navy's bomber wings to strike with even greater accuracy. The aircraft is usually based on an orbiting starship, and can operate in the vacuum of space as well as in a planet's atmosphere.
The Marauder Colossus was accepted by the Adeptus Mechanicus after that conflict as an officially recognised variant pattern of the Marauder Bomber and it is commonly used within the Imperial Navy's bomber wings for destroying heavily fortified targets. The Colossus variant of the Marauder was first developed during the Second War for Armageddon, where it was outfitted for night operations and armed to carry out precision strikes on key fortified targets. The Marauder Colossus forgoes the use of a multi-bomb payload in favour of a single, massive guided Melta-based Colossus Bomb of overwhelming destructive capacity. The Marauder Colossus is an uncommon variant of the Marauder Bomber and is specialised to perform high altitude strategic bombings of heavily fortified enemy positions and fortified structures such as bunkers and more extensive subterranean facilities. The Marauder Colossus is a variant of the standard Marauder Bomber that is used by the Imperial Navy's Aeronautica Imperialis division as its primary atmospheric bomber aircraft. Adeptus Mechanicus technical schematic of the Marauder Colossus.