Along the top behind the fans there's something glowing, not sure if it's some sort of propultion of just a cooling vent or what ever, the fans also don't seem to be hooked up to anything input wise so they're most likely being used to keep it in the air, the glowing thing on the top is more or less in the same sorta spot as the ones on helicopters today *i have no clue what they do on helicopters so i'm not gonna comment on their purpose, so could someone clear that up* so they more or less look like helicopters to me, they also don't look like they could stay in the air with a conventional jet on the back so i wouldn't say they worked like jets by them selves.
IMO they're just futuristic gunships meant to do hit and run, as they were used on harvest they probaly weren't designed with space capacity in mind as the unsc wouldn't think of abandoning a world cause there was no one going around and glassing them, they still look hugely effective against armoured targets and positions and as we can't see the underside of the fans we can't see whether it's armoured or not so we can't speculate that the fans are vunerable to fire, and against the covenant they wouldn't be very vunerable anyway as plasma rifles don't have a very fast fire rate *fast en ough to hit a fan atleast* or a large spread, so i doubt covies would be able to take out a fan easier than the rest of the sparrowhawk.
It's an awsome pic but the version in the images section looks like you simple cut out a bit of another pic and put in the halowars logo ;\
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