BattleTech Vehicle Technical Readout
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Type/Model: Fox
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3050
Config: Hovercraft
Rules: Level 1, Custom design
Mass: 35 tons
Power Plant: 105 DAV Fusion
Cruise Speed: 86.4 km/h
Maximum Speed: 129.6 km/h
Armor Type: Standard
Armament:
1 Large Laser
1 Machine Gun
2 SRM 4s
Manufacturer: (Unknown)
Location: (Unknown)
Communications System: (Unknown)
Targeting & Tracking System: (Unknown)
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==Overview:==
The Fox is one of the finest hovertanks produced in the Taurian Concordat.
Massing 35-tons, the design uses a 105-rate DAV fusion engine to acheive a
maximum speed of 129.6 kilometers per hour. Crew consists of three personnel:
a driver, a gunner, and a vehicle commander, and the Fox has a rear infantry
compartment that is able to carry up to 5 infantry troopers (a Taurian
demi-squad).
Armor protection is relatively light, with just five tons of armor, but both
the front and turret facings are able to resist a single Class 20 autocannon
hit, while the rear can stop a PPC bolt. The right and left sides are each
able to stop three medium laser hits from penetrating as well.
All armament is concentrated in the turret and consists of a Large Laser, a
Machine-gun with 100 shots, and two SRM-4 launchers, each with a ton of ammo
giving the Fox a total of twenty-five salvoes of eight missile each.
The original design called for the use of a medium laser in place of the
large, and a heavier engine that would have allowed the Fox to attain a speed
of 162 kilometers per hour. However, the TDF strategy board prefered having a
heavier and longer-ranged weapon, even at the expense of nearly 35 kph in
speed.
Still, the Fox can match pace with a Locust over open terrain and maintain
that speed over fairly calm bodies of water--and it far outguns the venerable
Star League design and carries more armor! TDF armor crews assigned to a Fox
or similar fast hovercraft consider themselves the elite of the Armor Corps.
These flamboyent vehicle crews are loved by the general population, many of
whom grow up wanting to be the commander of a TDF hover-sled.
Like the fighter pilots of Old Earth's First World War, the hovercraft crews
of the TDF are flashy and live life to the fullest, because they know they
risk their lives ever time by button up their tank and head into combat.
Still, that doesn't stop hundreds of youths from volunteering to join the
rank-and-file crews of the TDFs Foxes each and every month.
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Type/Model: Fox
Mass: 35 tons
Equipment: Items Mass
Int. Struct.: 20 pts Standard 0 3.50
Engine: 105 Fusion 0 4.67
Shielding & Transmission Equipment: 0 2.33
Cruise MP: 8
Flank MP: 12
Heat Sinks: 10 Single 0 .00
Cockpit & Controls: 0 2.00
Crew: 3 Members 0 .00
Lift Equipment: 0 3.50
Turret Equipment: 0 1.00
Armor Factor: 80 pts Standard 0 5.00
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Front: 4 20
Left / Right Sides: 4 15/15
Rear: 4 10
Turret: 4 20
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Items Mass
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1 Large Laser Turret 8 1 5.00
1 Machine Gun Turret 0 100 2 1.00
1 SRM 4 Turret 0 25 2 3.00
1 SRM 4 Turret 0 25 1 3.00
Infantry Bay Body 1 1.00
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TOTALS: 8 7 35.00
Items & Tons Left: 5 .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 1,197,650 C-Bills
Battle Value: 487
Cost per BV: 2,459.24
Weapon Value: 292 / 292 (Ratio = .60 / .60)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 16; MRDmg = 6; LRDmg = 0
BattleForce2: MP: 8H, Armor/Structure: 0 / 3
Damage PB/M/L: 2/2/-, Overheat: 0
Class: GL; Point Value: 5
Specials: tran1