Fortress
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| Fortress | |
| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | Semier Data Tron TAG-Manufacturing |
| Use | Assault Ship |
| Type | Spheroid |
| Tech Base | Inner Sphere |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 6,000 tons |
| Structural Integrity | 13 |
| Length | 112 meters |
| Width | meters |
| Height | meters |
| Drive System | Anacon B500 |
| Safe Thrust | 3 |
| Max Thrust | 5 |
| Fuel (tons) | 400 tons |
| Fuel (days) | 217.4 days |
| Armament | 6 x PPCs 2 x AC/20s 5 x AC/5s 4 x LRM-20s 4 x LRM-10s 6 x SRM-6s 8 x Large Lasers 16 x Medium Lasers 1 x Long Tom III Cannon |
| Armor | Standard Fore: 22 Sides: 21 Aft: 15 |
| Crew | 42 |
| Heat Sinks | 131 (single) |
| BV (1.0) | 4,347 |
| BV (2.0) | 4,798 |
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Description
The Fortress is one of the few true ground assault dropships capable of securing its own landing zone, deploy sufficient forces to hit its targets, and provide fire support. Baring that, it makes an excellent anchor for any defensive line, with enough firepower and armor to give most forces pause. The Fortress is capable of carrying a Combined-arms battalion including a full company each of 'Mechs, Vehicles and Infantry as well as coordinate them on on the field.
Unfortunately, this powerful DropShip was difficult to produce, and was nearly discontinued due to difficulty of getting parts for manufacturing. This was temporarily solved by the alliance between the Lyran Commonwealth and Federated Suns, and the DropShip resumed regular production, and even saw a major refit of the original design using more advanced weapons in the 3050s.
Armament
The Fortress is noted for is heavy armament and armor, being as heavily armored as the larger Overlord and better armed. The heavy weapons of this load out are the two massive AC/20s, six PPCs, four LRM-20s and eight Large Lasers. These impressive weapons are backed up by five lighter AC/5s, six SRM-6s, four LRM-10s, and sixteen Medium Lasers. The capstone of this impressive load out is a weapon rarely seen on dropships: the massive Long Tom III artillery cannon that allows the Fortress to back up it's battalion no matter where they are.
Cargo
- Cargo: 175 Tons
- Bay 1: 12 'Mechs - 1 Door
- Bay 2: 12 Vehicles (Heavy) - 2 Doors
- Bay 3: 3 Infantry Platoons/Cargo - 2 Doors
Variants
- Upgrade - Projected to launch in 3058, this version of the Fortress replaces the normal heat sinks with fewer double heat sinks and uses the extra tonnage to greatly improve the weapons load and strengthen the internal structure of the Dropship. First, two AC/5s, four Medium Lasers and two SRM-6s were stripped out, making room for upgrading the PPCs to ER PPCs and adding Artemis IV to all the remaining missile launchers. Further, the Large Lasers were upgraded to ER and ten of the remaining Medium Lasers were upgraded to Medium Pulse Laser. Finally, to help round out the new weapons load, two Gauss Rifles were added to give the Dropship more long range punch. Further, the engine was slightly upgraded to a more efficient drive and the structure of the ship was also reinforced, and the cargo capacity increased to 368 tons. BV (1.0) = 5,831 BV (2.0) = 6,072