LCT-6M Locust

[DeJaVu]

Type/Model: LCT-6M Locust
Mass: 20 tons
Chassis: Corean-II Delux Endo Steel
Power Plant: 240 Hermes XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 151 km/h
Maximum Speed: 226 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type: Kallon FWL Special Ferro-Fibrous
Armament: 1 Magna Mk IV ER Small Laser
2 Magna Mk VI ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer: Corean Enterprises
Primary Factory: Stewart
Communications System: Garret T10B
Targeting & Tracking System: Corean CalcMaster


You know, you have to wonder when people can’t leave well enough alone. I mean, there’s hardly a more ubiquitous ’Mech in the entire Inner Sphere (or anywhere there are ’Mechs, for that matter) than the humble little Locust. There are more variants and one-offs running around than I have fingers and toes, it seems like, and we just keep adding more.
It’s a little ’Mech, and a weak ’Mech, if you can call anything that moves around two hundred klicks an hour weak, but it has always been fast, and reliable, and usually available, so I guess its no surprise that people keep tinkering with it. At least this time they seem to be doing things right.
Here in Marik space we’ve had the fastest Locust on the market for years. That was its great selling point, you see? We souped it up so it could compete with all these Darts and Fireballs and other little speed machines. The latest model to come out of Alys’ refit yards takes that a step further, stripping some of the excess lasers out in favor of myomer signal acceleration circuitry and fitting an extralight gyro to make space for an even larger engine. This new Locust can burst to speeds over three hundred kilometers per hour!
Another model has been spotted in Davion space, in the hands of those little persistent Taurian buggers in the Pleiades Cluster. They’ve taken a stock Locust and replaced the engine with an extralight of the same size, relayered the armor with a ferro-fibrous weave, and then bundled a trio of light machine guns in each arm mounted to those new arrays. They’re playing hell with the infantry contingents in any RCT they face, and merry havoc with the disused planetary militia they run up against. While the little MGs are weaker than the usual, they reach further, which means that units that are expecting to be beyond the range of aimed fire are getting mowed down before they’re under cover.

[Hobbit]

w00t! Милиспеки вернулись, может так и Objective Raids 3067 скоро выйдут.