Bellona
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| Bellona Hover Tank | |
| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | HH Complex Beta |
| Mission | Strike and Flanker |
| Type | Hover |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 45 tons |
| Armor | Forging HTT05 |
| Engine | Fusion Type 170 |
| Speed | 150 kph km/h |
| Crew | Three |
| Armament |
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| BV (1.0) | ??? |
| BV (2.0) | 1,018 |
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Description
Khan James Cobb command, Clan Hell's Horses began preparation for renewed assault on the Inner Sphere. Scientist caste saw this as new opporunity to create new cavalry vehicle which they called Bellona. It was designed as a strike and flanker, the Bellona carries enough firepower on a nimble enough frame to keep up with even the fastest Clan advancing front lines.
Designed to move swiftly and provide heavy fire power where its needed. The originally to be designed with trackss, but test Pilots for the vehicle cited that "Speed" is armor. Thus focusing speed of the vehicle and becoming a hover type tank. The vehicle has eight tons of armor protect the hull and motive systems.
Coming off the production lines on Tiber in the Kerensky Cluster, a large number of the were sent through the long chain of jumpships to the front line clusters fighting their trials against Clan Wolf in early 3070s.
The vehicle had been seen in combat operations with variety of factions in Inner Sphere far in the future as mid 3130s.
Armament
Main gun, being a Ultra Class 10 Autocannon (with 2 tons ammunition), with 2 Flamers mounted on its turret. Vehicle has for unarmed infantry combat, pair of light machine guns in its nose and single for each of its left & right sides. Bellona has 1.2 tons of ammunition for the its light machine guns.
Variants
- Bellona 2 - To reduce ammunition dependency on it main gun, Ultra 10 with ammo and Flamer are dropped for Extended Range Large Laser and ten tube Long Range Missile launcher. The thou LRM is more ammunition consuming, it primary weapon still able fire. Vehicle has not reach the front lines of Clan Hell's Horse invasion into Clan Wolf's Inner Sphere occupational zone as of 3075.