BattleMech Technical Readout
Name/Model: Shadow Hawk (LRM10/Artemis IV) SHD-5M1
Designer: Magix
Source(s): Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology: Inner Sphere
Technology Rating: E
Tonnage: 55
Role: Missile Boat
Configuration: Biped BattleMech
Era/Year: Succession Wars / 3048
Rules (Current): Standard
Rules (Era): Standard
Rules (Year): Standard
Total Cost: 5,240,757 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,268
Chassis: Earthwerks SHD-II Endo Steel
Power Plant: 275 Fusion
Walking Speed: 54 kph
Maximum Speed: 86.4 kph
Jump Jets: Chilton 360
Jump Capacity: 120 meters
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
Armament:
1 Imperator Ultra AC/5
1 LRM 10
1 Martell Medium Laser
1 Hovertec Streak SRM 2
Manufacturer: Earthwerks Incorporated
Primary Factory: Calloway VI
Communications: Neil 9000
Targeting & Tracking: RCA Instatrac Mark XII
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Overview:
Factory changeovers to incorporate Star League technology onto existing designs often give
the illusion of offering something for nothing. Many prototypes emerge with enhanced
capabilities while giving up some small but critical item. That is not the case with the
new Shadow Hawk SHD-5M. This model does, indeed, have enhanced capabilities, but there
seems to be no loss of general combat efficiency.
Free Worlds League designers combined Endo Steel internal structure and the excellent
Hermes 275 XL engine to devote more weight to weapons and other equipment. While two heat
sinks were removed, all of the new models use freeezers, thus keeping the 'Mech
cool-running. The enhanced capabilities are impressive. An Imperator Ultra-5 Autocannon
replaces the old model, and a Hovertec Streak SRM-2 Pod replaces the old Holly rack,
improving ammo efficiency. Additional jump jets increase the Shadow Hawk's jump range to
150 meters, and an extra half ton of armor protects the torso, arms, and legs.
Though the Earthwerks factory on Calloway VI is the only manufacturer of the Shadow
Hawk in the Inner Sphere, Majesty Metals and Manufacturing on Duncanshire in the Magistracy
of Canopus still produces the old SHD-2H design. The Federated Commonwealth has recently
been purchasing most of these, reportedly modifying them and sending them to new march
militia or reselling them to mercenary units. The standard modification adds a medium laser
and replaces the old Holly SRM-2 with two Federated SuperStreak Dual-SRM Launchers.
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Equipment Mass
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Internal Structure: Endo Steel 3.00
Engine: 275 Fusion 15.50
Walking MP: 5
Running MP: 8
Jumping MP: 4
Heat Sinks (Double): 10 [20] 0.00
Gyro: Standard 3.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Armor Factor: 143 8.00
Type: Ferro-Fibrous
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 18 18
Center Torso (rear): 4
R/L Torso: 13 18
R/L Torso (rear): 4
R/L Arm: 9 17
R/L Leg: 13 17
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Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Tonnage
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Streak SRM 2 H 1 1.50
2 Jump Jets CT 2 1.00
CASE RT 1 0.50
LRM 10 RT 2 5.00
LRM 10 (Ammo 12) [Artemis IV] RT 1 1.00
Streak SRM 2 (Ammo 50) RT 1 1.00
CASE LT 1 0.50
Ultra AC/5 LT 5 9.00
Ultra AC/5 (Ammo 20) LT 1 1.00
Medium Laser RA 1 1.00
Jump Jet RL 1 0.50
Jump Jet LL 1 0.50
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Alpha Strike Statistics
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Point Value (PV): 35
TP: BM, SZ: 2, TMM: 2, MV: 10"/8"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 3 / (L) 2, OV: 0
Armor (A): 5, Structure (S): 5
Specials: CASE, IF1, JMPW1
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