Extended Range Medium Laser

ER Medium Laser
Production information
Type Energy (Direct-Fire)
Tech Base Clan / Inner Sphere (IS)[1]
Year Availability Clan = 2824 (CJF)[1]

IS = 3058 (FWL)[1]

Technical specifications
Heat 5[2][3]
Damage Clan = 7[3]

IS = 5 [2]

Minimum Range n/a
Short Range 0[2]

Clan = 1-5[3] IS = 1-4[2]

Medium Range Clan = 6-10[3]

IS = 5-8[2]

Long Range Clan = 11-15[3]

IS = 9-12[2]

Tons 1
Critical Slots 1
Ammo Per Ton n/a
Cost (unloaded) 80,000
Ammo Cost (per ton) n/a
BV (1.0) Clan = 108

IS = 62

BV (2.0) Clan = 108[4]

IS = 62[5]

Description

The Extended-Range Medium Laser (ER Medium Laser) focuses a powerful beam of light on targets that causes damage by melting or shattering armor off of the target.[1]

As the name suggests, the Extended-Range variant of the Medium Laser improves the focusing system of the laser to project it to much farther ranges. The optics are less efficient, though, necessitating more input power for the same armor ablation and thus more waste heat in the weapon.

As with most Clan energy weapons, the Clans lack their own standard Medium Laser.

Manufacturing

The Extended-Range Medium Laser is manufactured on the following planets:

Brand Planet Company Used by References
BrightBloom New Avalon
Wernke 		Achernar BattleMechs
Kallon Industries 		??? [citation needed]
Ceres Arms Capella/St. Ives Ceres Metals Industries ??? [citation needed]
Defiance Model XII Furillo Defiance Industries ??? [citation needed]
Diplan M3-XR Ozawa? Diplan 'Mechyards? ??? [citation needed]
Diverse Optics Sunbeam Irian Diverse Optics Incorporated ??? [citation needed]
Diverse Optics Sunfire Unknown Diverse Optics Incorporated ZU-G60 Anzu [6]
ExoStar Pinnacle (Clantech) Unknown ExoStar Laser Technologies UCU-F4 Scarecrow [7]
Magna Mk VI Lopez Magna ??? [citation needed]
Magna Mk VI Stewart Corean Enterprises ??? [citation needed]
Martell El Dorado General Motors BLR-2D Warlord [8]
RAMTech 1500Z New Kyoto RAMTech ??? [citation needed]
Series 7J Tamaron Ashton 'Mech Production Complex ??? [citation needed]
Series J7A Arcadia Arcadia BattleMech Plant CM-T4 ??? [citation needed]
General Systems Huntress Abysmal Manufacturing Complex ??? [citation needed]

See Also

The ER Medium Laser has been used in various video games, each with their own stats for the weapon; below is a list of the games that use it along with a link to each version's stats:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 TechManual, p. 226, "Laser - Extended-Range (ER) Laser"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 TechManual, p. 341, "Inner Sphere Weapons And Equipment Table"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 TechManual, p. 343, "Clan Weapons And Equipment Table"
  4. ↑ TechManual, p. 318, "Clan Weapons and Equipment BV Table"
  5. ↑ TechManual, p. 317, "Inner Sphere Weapons and Equipment BV Table"
  6. ↑ Technical Readout: 3145 Free Worlds League, p. 32-33, "ZU-G60 Anzu"
  7. ↑ Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns, p. 34-35, "UCU-F4 Scarecrow"
  8. ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 88, "BLR-2D Warlord"

Bibliography

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