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The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts The subject of this article appears in Extinction mode The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty Online The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Warzone 2 The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III The subject of this article appeared in Zombies mode The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
For the Stryker, see Honey Badger (callsign).

The Honey Badger is an assault rifle that appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Call of Duty Online, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. It has an integrated suppressor in most of its appearances.

Call of Duty: Ghosts[]

"Fully automatic. Integrated Silencer keeps your shots off the radar."
— Description

Campaign[]

The Honey Badger is seen throughout the campaign used by Logan Walker and Hesh. It is also used in "End of the Line" by Thomas Merrick and Keegan because of its integrated silencer. It is used by the Federation only in "The Hunted".

Curiously, despite being the signature and iconic weapon of the Ghosts, it is only usable in five missions: "Brave New World", "No Man's Land", "The Hunted", "End of the Line", and "All or Nothing". In later levels, it is replaced by the K7 submachine gun.

Multiplayer[]

The Honey Badger is a costly weapon, demanding nine Squad Points to unlock it. However, it can be unlocked by default if using the Stealth package.

The Honey Badger is a highly variable damage-per-bullet weapon. At any range before nineteen meters, the Honey Badger will deal 42 damage, resulting in a three shot kill, or a two shot kill if both shots hit the head. Damage decreases linearly afterwards until 33 meters, where the Honey Badger deals a meager twenty damage, requiring a five shot kill (headshots will not result in a four shot kill), or a two shot kill in Hardcore game modes. The Honey Badger becomes a four shot kill at about 25 meters, becomes a two shot kill in Hardcore at about 27 meters, and becomes a five shot kill at thirty meters. The Honey Badger's damage profile makes it a poor choice for distant combat, but great for medium-short range gunfights. The Honey Badger also boasts medium penetration power, making it capable of easily shooting through thin objects, but not through thicker cover. With regards to silenced Assault Rifles, it has the third longest range of all Assault Rifles with Silencers.

The Honey Badger has a favorably high rate of fire. The Honey Badger will fire at 800 RPM in a fully automatic configuration. This rate of fire is only bested by the ARX-160 and the FAD in its category. This makes the Honey Badger a fairly forgiving and powerful weapon in close quarters combat, being able to go toe to toe with certain SMG's up close, and the integrated silencer makes the Honey Badger a great weapon for close-mid range combat.

The Honey Badger's accuracy traits are fairly unique. The iron sights are clear and almost identical to the ARX-160's bar the paint scheme, and the recoil profile is very odd, as the Honey Badger will kick in an omni-directional pattern. The recoil plot itself is generally somewhat accurate, but newer players may be confused by the Honey Badger's recoil pattern. Overall, the Honey Badger is fairly accurate, and thanks to the Silencer, the Honey Badger has no muzzle flash.

The Honey Badger's handling traits are somewhat favorable. The operator will move at ninety percent of the base speed when using the weapon, the strafe speed is slow, and the hip-fire box is a decent size. The reload times have long animations, taking 2.63 seconds to complete the animation for a regular reload, and 3.16 seconds for an empty reload. In both cases, however, the Honey Badger's add to gun time is considerably shorter, at 1.53 seconds. Players should reload cancel as much as possible with the Honey Badger, as the player can potentially shed more than a second of wasted time through reload canceling.

The Honey Badger has a thirty round magazine by default. This size is the Assault Rifle default. Due to the Honey Badger's high rate of fire and poor damage at range, players can find themselves using up a lot of ammunition for the Honey Badger. If the player spawns in without the Fully Loaded perk, the player will spawn with three magazines, one already loaded into the weapon, for a total of ninety rounds at their disposal. This is one of the smallest ammunition loadouts among fully automatic weapons, with the Remington R5 and the fully automatic PDW being the only fully automatic weapons to have smaller ammunition loadouts.

The Honey Badger's defining characteristic is its integrated Silencer. This is a free attachment that cannot be removed, and as such, doesn't take up an attachment slot in Create-a-Class.

The Honey Badger's attachment selection is abnormal, as barrel attachments are completely absent due to the integrated Silencer. The optical attachments are all available to the Honey Badger, but aren't all that necessary. The Honey Badger's iron sights are usable enough, and as such, players should try to use the iron sights before opting out for an attachment like the Red Dot Sight or Holographic Sight. The long range optical attachments are a poor fit on the Honey Badger, as it is one of the worst long range weapons in its class. However, usage of the long range optical attachments may prove useful in obtaining Longshot medals for the Crocodile Camouflage.

The underbarrel attachments offer some interesting options. The Foregrip reduces recoil a bit, and as such, is always a viable option to use. The Shotgun and Grenade Launcher, however, aren't as viable, as shooting the weapons will make the player appear on the mini-map, effectively ruining the Honey Badger's niche as a silenced weapon. Due to this, it is best to stick with a different Assault Rifle if wishing to use the Shotgun or Grenade Launcher attachments.

The modification attachments are perhaps the most useful to the Honey Badger. Extended Mags increases the magazine capacity to 45 rounds, and increases the starting ammunition loadout by 50%. This can prove very useful due to the Honey Badger's somewhat small starting ammunition loadout, and its habit of needing a lot of ammunition in distant combat. Armor-Piercing Rounds will make the Honey Badger deal more damage to armored enemies, making it so the Honey Badger can kill those enemies much faster than without the attachment. Burst Fire will make the Honey Badger shoot in three round bursts and add a burst delay, making the Honey Badger's rate of fire much lower. As well, the Honey Badger's recoil is increased by 15% every shot. Single Fire will lower the Rate of Fire even more so, and still have the recoil increase per shot, but the Honey Badger will obtain an enhanced headshot multiplier, and extra body multipliers, making the Honey Badger require less shots to kill across all ranges, should the user hit their enemies in the center mass or upwards.

Extinction[]

As of the update for Nemesis, the Honey Badger is only available on Chaos Mode for Point of Contact and Mayday. In solo and multiplayer for both of those maps, it was replaced entirely by the AK-12 and the ARX-160.

The Honey Badger previously appeared in solo play and multiplayer Extinction, on the maps Point of Contact and Mayday for $2000. In Point of Contact, it was located in the barn, in the cabin area. In Mayday, it was on the catwalk with the tentacle.

The Honey Badger featured a 35 round magazine and one of the fastest rate of fires of any assault rifle in Extinction, with moderate accuracy and moderate reload speed to boot. However, it provided slightly less reserve ammo than the smaller-magazined SA-805. The Honey Badger also suffered from a short range and poor ranged damage, which could not be mitigated by equipping a Muzzle Brake.

In Point of Contact, the Honey Badger was very unpopular to use, as it was located in a very inconvenient area, in addition to being accessible very late into the map, with the player having already passed by two fully automatic assault rifles well before accessing the Honey Badger. Even if players acknowledged where it was and even if players liked the Honey Badger, said players usually had assault rifles already. This made the Honey Badger have poor ranged performance relative to other assault rifles, and that can come into play quite commonly at this stage of the map.

On Mayday, the Honey Badger proved to be a much more popular choice due to the reduced selection of longer ranged weaponry on the map, especially those that were available early on. The Honey Badger was the only assault rifle available until the ARX-160 was provided later on in the map. The closer confines of Mayday made the Honey Badger's range shortcoming much less relevant, and the Honey Badger's higher rate of fire proved to be useful.

Attachments[]

Integral[]

Sights[]

Under Barrel[]

Mod[]

Gallery[]

For attachments images, see Honey Badger (weapon)/Attachments.
For camouflage images, see Honey Badger (weapon)/Camouflage.

Videos[]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered[]

The Honey Badger appears in Modern Warfare Remastered as the Lynx CQ300. It was added in the August 8th, 2017 update, and this time the silencer is not an integrated attachment, but an optional one.

The Lynx CQ300 kills in 3-5 shots depending on range. Even though head shot multipliers are lower than most other assault rifles, head shots still generally reduce the number of bullets needed to kill by one. Equipping Stopping Power reduces this to 2-4 shots, making the weapon superior to most assault rifles within effective range. Range, however, is shorter than average for assault rifles. Adding a Silencer exacerbates this weakness. While the Lynx CQ300 has low long-range damage, it's still relatively easy to score hits due to its low recoil.

Although the range is shorter, it has no idle sway even when the ACOG Scope is attached. Aiming the ACOG Scope also takes up less of the screen than other weapons, giving the Lynx CQ300 some accuracy advantage; using the ACOG Scope however will also slow down the aim down sight speed like other assault rifles and SMGs.

The weapon shares reserve ammunition with the AK-47 and the XM-LAR.

Attachments[]

Call of Duty Online[]

The weapon appears in Call of Duty Online as the AAC.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II & Modern Warfare III[]

"With an integrated suppressor and slow, high-energy subsonic .300 BLK rounds, the Chimera is adept at close-quarters combat."
— In-game description

The Honey Badger returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II as the Chimera.

The Chimera is also available in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as part of the Modern Warfare II content carryover.

Overview[]

Campaign[]

The Chimera appears as the player's only weapon during the mission "Strike", where Simon "Ghost" Riley is the playable character. It sports a unique black finish that also features the Union Jack on the side of the gun below the rear sights, and it is equipped with the 10" SA Phoenix unsuppressed barrel and the Ravage-8 stock. Ghost can also be seen using the Chimera in this configuration in "Cartel Protection", "Close Air", "Prison Break" (opening cutscene), and "Ghost Team", whereas in "Kill or Capture" he uses one with the standard tan finish, integral suppressor, and stock.

In the Modern Warfare III campaign, the Chimera is not available to the player. Nevertheless, Ghost continues to use it in both configurations. In addition, the black version is sometimes carried by Farah Karim, and the standard suppressed version is used by SFOs in the final mission "Trojan Horse".

Multiplayer[]

The Chimera was added on December 14th, 2022 as part of the Modern Warfare II Season One Reloaded update. It can be unlocked for free by earning two kills with an assault rifle in fifteen different multiplayer matches or by extracting the weapon from Building 21 in DMZ.

Attachments[]

Muzzle[]

  • Eight-Point Flash Hider
  • TZL-90 V3
  • Cronen Dark KX30
  • Husher-65 Silencer
  • Polarfire-S
  • ZLR Talon 5
  • Echoline GS-X
  • Zulu-60
  • Kastovia DX90
  • Tempus GH50
  • TY-LR8
  • Lockshot KT85
  • SA Leveler 55
  • Bore-490
  • Sakin Tread-40
  • GL Clear Breach
  • Ta Hul-Breach KL

Barrel[]

  • 10" SA Phoenix
  • 5.5" EXF OP-40
  • 6.5" EXF Vorpal

Laser[]

  • 1mw Artemis Laser
  • 1mw Quick Fire Laser
  • Accu-Shot 5mw Laser
  • VLK LZR 7mw
  • Schlager ULO-66 Laser
  • Stovl Tac Laser
  • Hipshot L20
  • Point-G3P 04
  • FJX Ultrabeam XR
  • EXF Solarflare

Optic[]

  • Slimline Pro
  • SZ Mini
  • Cronen Mini Red Dot
  • Cronen Mini Pro
  • SZ Sigma-IV Optic
  • SZ Minitac-40
  • XRK On-Point Optic
  • AIM OP-V4
  • DF105 Reflex Sight
  • Monocle CT90
  • Corvus SOL-76
  • SZ Recharge-DX
  • SZ SRO-7
  • Corio RE-X Pro
  • Corio Enforcer Optic
  • SZ Lonewolf Optic
  • Kazan-Holo
  • Corvus Downrange-00
  • SZ Holotherm
  • XTEN Angel-40
  • VLK 4.0 Optic
  • Schlager 3.4x
  • Forge Tac Delta 4
  • Cronen Zero-P Optic
  • SZ Bullseye Optic
  • SZ Aggressor-IR Optic
  • Schlager Night View
  • VX350 Thermal Optic
  • Teplo-OP3 Scope
  • DR582 Hybrid Sight
  • Hybrid Firepoint
  • SZ Vortex-90
  • BPZ40 Hybrid
  • SZ Oscar-9
  • ANGEL-40 4.8x
  • Thermo-Optic X9
  • Teplo Clear Shot
  • FTAC Charlie7
  • HMW-20 Optic
  • Luca Bandera Scope
  • DS Farsight 11
  • 3X RFL-Optic
  • Drexsom Prime-90
  • Ares Clear Shot
  • Vigilant-30 C-Iron

Stock[]

  • TRX-56 Stock
  • Ravage-10
  • M13C Factory Stock
  • M13C FS Collapsed

Underbarrel[]

  • Bruen Commando Foregrip
  • Edge-47 Grip
  • Demo Firm Grip
  • XTEN Gravedigger
  • FTAC Ripper 56
  • Demo Cleanshot 40
  • Demo IMP-44 Grip
  • FTAC Tiger Grip
  • FSS Sharkfin 90
  • Agent Grip
  • Bruen Sync Shot Grip
  • XTEN Drop Grip
  • Phase-3 Grip
  • Merc Foregrip
  • Lockgrip Precision-40
  • Hex-40 Grip
  • Schlager Tango
  • VX Pineapple
  • OP-X9 Foregrip
  • Operator Foregrip
  • TV Wrecker Grip
  • Bruen Tilt Grip
  • Cronen Grooveshot Grip
  • Bruen Warrior Grip
  • Bipod V9 Grip
  • Core BP2

Magazine[]

  • 20 Round Mag
  • 45 Round Mag

Ammunition[]

  • .300 BLK Frangible
  • .300 BLK Hollowpoint
  • .300 BLK Armor Piercing
  • .300 BLK Overpressured P+

Rear Grip[]

  • Bruen GR-500
  • D37 Grip
  • Bruen Flash Grip

Receiver[]

Blueprints[]

Blueprint Image How to Obtain
Beastly Beastly Chimera Blueprint MWII Alpha Burn Bundle
Darkcell Darkcell Chimera Blueprint MWII Dark Skies Bundle
Dead Quiet Dead Quiet Chimera Blueprint MWII Banshee Scream Bundle
Feelin' Froggy Feelin' Froggy Chimera Blueprint MWII Tracer Pack: Poison Dart Bundle
Geosync Geosync Chimera Blueprint MWII For Markino Bundle
Hissing Envy Hissing Envy Chimera Blueprint MWII VII: Envy Bundle
Jogger Jogger Chimera Blueprint MWII Tactical Human 2.0 Bundle
Killfeed Killfeed Chimera Blueprint MWII Battle Buddy: Chatter Pack Bundle
Nullify Nullify Chimera Blueprint MWII Battle Pass Season Two Sector B20
Pro Issue Chimera Pro Issue Chimera Blueprint MWII Reach Top 5 or below 10 times in Ranked Play in Warzone 2.0 during Season Three.
Quiet Rage Quiet Rage Chimera Blueprint MWII The Boys: Black Noir Operator Bundle
Saekdong Saekdong Chimera Blueprint MWII Year of the Rabbit Bundle
Shred Shred Chimera Blueprint MWII Fresh Powder Bundle
Silver Tox Silver Tox Chimera Blueprint MWII Extract with the Weapon Case 6 times in Building 21 in DMZ.
Solo Yolo Solo Yolo Chimera Blueprint MWII WSOW Solo Yolo Pack Bundle
Stonebreaker Stonebreaker Chimera Blueprint MWII Battle Pass Season Five Sector E17
Superheat Superheat Chimera Blueprint MWII Tracer Pack: Damascus Forge 2 Bundle
The Depths The Depths Chimera Blueprint MWII Deepwater Bundle
The Haunted The Haunted Chimera Blueprint MWII Battle Pass Season Three Sector C20
Tinsel Tinsel Chimera Blueprint MWII Merry Mayhem Bundle

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

Call of Duty: Ghosts[]

  • "RLVOR" and "64/21" can be seen written on the charging handle. Also, "NV" is written just above the magazine.
  • The word “BADGER” is written on the side of the gun.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare[]

  • In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the NV4 assault rifle has a variant called "Honey-B", with the description stating that it modifies the firing characteristics in a way reminiscent of the Honey Badger.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II[]

  • The custom Chimera used by Ghost in the campaign appears as a Weapon Blueprint in multiplayer called "The Haunted", unlockable though the Season Three Battle Pass.
  • The description of the "Sliver Tox" blueprint reads: "Prototype weapon #AG-107.8682.". Which references the symbol (AG) and atomic weight (107.8682) of Silver.
  • The serial number of the Chimera is "GI 0295"
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