HRT-25 Hetz Rifle Tank

[Maingunnery]

HRT-25 Hetz Rifle Tank

Designed as a cheap and compact option for providing some heavy firepower to early colonies (2150). Generally succeeded by the Hetzer Wheeled Assault Gun, but then reintroduced in 3100 to help sell mothballed Rifle Cannons, with most going to heavy police forces and Deep Periphery states.

Mass: 25 tons
Movement Type: Wheeled
Power Plant: ICE
Cruising Speed: 43.2 kph
Maximum Speed: 64.8 kph
Armor: BAR 6
Armament:
        1 Rifle (Cannon, Heavy)


Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 2150
Tech Rating/Availability: D/C-F(F*)-X-D
Cost: 171,563 C-bills
   
 
Type: HRT-25
Chassis Type: Wheeled (Medium)
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Experimental)
Mass: 25 tons
Battle Value: 207
   
Equipment                                         Mass (tons)
Chassis/Controls                                    4.5
Engine/Trans.                                       7.5
    Cruise MP:4
   Flank MP:6
Heat Sinks                    0                     0.0
Fuel                                                0.5
Armor Factor (BAR 6)          52                    2.5

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Front                   3         18   
     R/L Side               3/3      12/12   
     Rear                    3         10   
   

Weapons
and Ammo                Location    Tonnage      
Rifle                    Front        8.0     
Heavy Rifle Ammo (12)     Body        2.0   

[Daryk]

It's cheap, but still TL D... if you have that tech, why not 'mechs?  ???

[Maingunnery]

It's cheap, but still TL D... if you have that tech, why not 'mechs?  ???

Strange, I can't find the thing that makes it TL D.

Rifle = B
Structure = C
Engine = C
Armor = C


MLL bug perhaps?

[Daryk]

Interstellar Operations says Combat Vehicle Structure is TL D (page 48 refers).

[Maingunnery]

Interstellar Operations says Combat Vehicle Structure is TL D (page 48 refers).

But it is build as a Support Vehicle, so MML is getting mixed up?

[assaultdoor]

It's cheap, but still TL D... if you have that tech, why not 'mechs?  ???

Also, TL D covers a huge range of technologies developed over hundreds of years. That's kind of like saying that since the IBM System/360 is TL B, IBM should have skipped over it and started making 486s in the 1960s.

[Daryk]

Hmmm... MML doesn't slap a "Support" label on it anywhere.  That SHOULD work as a Support Vehicle.