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Off Topic / Re: What tv provider do you use?
« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 14:49:29 »There are people who still have them, but the percentage of TV owners who still use antennas is a shrinking demographic.
"You see, the prosecutor has sent a message to ask if we are at war with the FWL. If we are and/or you have a letter of marque, you will return to the FWL - after the fines have been taken. If we are not at war and/or you have no letter of marque then the prosecutor will asks what you are doing on the wrong side of the border. And then she will prosecute you as pirates. And then you can throw all those fines etc into the dustbin, because pirates are punished in only one way- execution."... and so everybody went to war, because otherwise raiding was too expensive.
Widowmaker LRM
The configuration of Dire Wolf piloted by Natasha Kerensky at her Trial of Position to test out as a MechWarrior. For long range combat, the ER PPCs are replaced by shoulder-mounted twin LRM-20 launchers with 24 racks, first half being Swarm LRMs and backed up by a Large Pulse Laser mounted in each arm. For close combat, the left torso carries three ER Medium Lasers in triangular configuration in the chest and the stubby LB 20-X AC with 10 cluster rounds underslung on the right torso. For when things gets dicey, a "fire and forget" SRM-6 one-shot launcher above cockpit, just aft of the hatch and only 20 double strength heat sinks. This configuration was just for her Trial of Position and not used again.[30] No record sheet or statistics have been provided for this configuration.
Daishi (Dire Wolf) WidowMaker-LRM
Mass: 100 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Chassis Config: Biped Omnimech
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Succession Wars
Tech Rating/Era Availability: F/X-E-E-D
Production Year: 3010
Dry Cost: 24,900,000 C-Bills
Total Cost: 24,900,000 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,277
Chassis: Unknown Standard
Power Plant: Unknown 300 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 32.4 km/h
Maximum Speed: 54.0 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Unknown Standard Armor
Armament:
50.5 tons of pod space.
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 152 points 10.00
Engine: XL Fusion Engine 300 9.50
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 15(30) 5.00
Heat Sink Locations: 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 LL
Gyro: Standard 3.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA R: SH+UA
Armor: Standard Armor AV - 304 19.00
Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 31 47
Center Torso (rear) 14
L/R Torso 21 32
L/R Torso (rear) 10
L/R Arm 17 34
L/R Leg 21 41
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Loadout Name: WidowMaker-LRM (Hellraiser) Cost: 29,122,125
Tech Rating/Era Availability: F/X-E-E-D BV2: 2,880
Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 24(48) 9.00
Heat Sink Locations: 4 LT, 2 RT, 2 LA, 2 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL
CASE Locations: RT, LA, RA 0.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA R: SH+UA+LA
Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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ER Small Laser HD 2 1 0.50
2 ER Medium Lasers CT 10 2 2.00
Ultra AC/10 RT 3 4 10.00
Large Pulse Laser RA 10 2 6.00
ER Large Laser RA 12 1 4.00
LRM-10 RA 4 1 2.50
Large Pulse Laser LA 10 2 6.00
ER Large Laser LA 12 1 4.00
LRM-10 LA 4 1 2.50
@Ultra AC/10 (20) RT - 2 2.00
@LRM-10 (12) RA - 1 1.00
@LRM-10 (12) LA - 1 1.00
Free Critical Slots: 2
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 10 Points: 29
3 7 7 5 0 4 2 Structure: 5
Special Abilities: OMNI, CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA, IF 1
Question is keeping that institutional knowledge as well as facilities for Allied use worth the expense?
And the Lone Wolf configuration is listed on the MUL, so disregard my previous musings. The Widowmaker LRM is canon and should be added to the MUL.
Widowmaker LRM
The configuration of Dire Wolf piloted by Natasha Kerensky at her Trial of Position to test out as a MechWarrior. For long range combat, the ER PPCs are replaced by shoulder-mounted twin LRM-20 launchers with 24 racks, first half being Swarm LRMs and backed up by a Large Pulse Laser mounted in each arm. For close combat, the left torso carries three ER Medium Lasers in triangular configuration in the chest and the stubby LB 20-X AC with 10 cluster rounds underslung on the right torso. For when things gets dicey, a "fire and forget" SRM-6 one-shot launcher above cockpit, just aft of the hatch and only 20 double strength heat sinks. This configuration was just for her Trial of Position and not used again.[30] No record sheet or statistics have been provided for this configuration.
So only one of Australia's Collins-class submarines is currently operational.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/one-australian-submarine-is-fully-operational-aging-fleet/104551528
The Collins-class have always been problems. They're a cautionary tale about submarine tendering in the paperwork sense. In the mid-80s the RAN wanted US nuclear boats, so pitched them, along with a German design - high quality conventional, but without the range for Pacific operations. But they got told "Never pitch 2 designs, always 3. So add one so bad no-one would pick it." That was a bloated upscale of the Swedish Västergötland class. Guess which one got picked ...
So noisy when moving, they couldn't hear a supertanker cruising overhead as they came up to surface. I talked to a mathematician who'd been involved in the project. He said they only ever modelled hydrodynamic flow with the boat stationary, never moving.
(And let's steer clear of the political shoals of the current replacement process, thanks!)