Super Griffin
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| Super Griffin | |
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| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | none (prototype) |
| Model | GRF-2N |
| Class | Heavy |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 60 tons |
| Chassis | custom (prototype) |
| Armor | unknown |
| Engine | Core Tek 275 |
| Speed | 64.8 km/h |
| Jump Jets | unknown |
| Armament | |
| BV (1.0) | ? |
| BV (2.0) | ? |
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Description
The GRF-2N Super Griffin is an evolution of the classic Griffin, a re-design that essentially produced a new BattleMech with even a different tonnage (similar to the -IIC variants that the Clans created for many classic designs). While its overall weight was increased to 60 tons, which means more powerful Jump Jets are required for the 'Mech, the Super Griffin retains the CoreTek 275 fusion engine which means its ground speed dropped to 64.8 km/h. To make up for this, the armour has been increased by half a ton and a Medium Laser has been added. Also, the Super Griffin mounts thirteen Heat Sinks (as opposed to the twelve regular heat sinks on the standard Griffin), three of which are experimental Double Heat Sinks, for a total heat dissipation capacity of 16 per turn.
- Note that the Super Griffin as described in the sourcebook is an illegal design and cannot be built under standard rules: Although it is technically legal to have an oversized engine, the Super Griffin can only have 4 jump jets at 1 ton each, not 9 as shown in the sourcebook (which was presumably in error, and supposed to read 4). Double heat sinks cannot normally be mixed with standard heat sinks, but special house rules regarding such experimental double heat sinks were provided within the sourcebook for that particular campaign.
- With 13 heat sinks and 4 jump jets, the 'Mech comes out at 59.5 tons and is actually 0.5 tons underweight.
Together with the Super Wasp, the Super Griffin was designed at the Friden Aerospace Park research facility on Hoff by House Davion scientists in "Project Phoenix". After eighteen months of work, an operational prototype had been completed when the Black Widow Company attacked the facility on 13 May 3022. The Super Griffin was deployed as a last line of defense and presumably destroyed. There have been no recorded encounters with this design afterwards.
Armament
The Super Griffin retains the weapon configuration of the regular GRF-1N Griffin, namely a PPC in the right arm and a LRM-10 launcher with two tons of ammunition in the right torso. A medium laser was added to the left arm.
Variants
None known. In fact only one single functional prototype was encountered and presumably destroyed and the design apparently never entered full production. The exact reasons for this remain unknown.