Dead-Fire Missiles

Dead-Fire Missile
Production information
Type Ammunition
Tech Base Inner Sphere (IS)
Year Introduced Clan = N/A

IS = 3052 DC

Technology Rating C
Availability Ratings X/X/E[1]
Technical specifications
Heat ** (**)
Tons Clan = N/A

IS = *

Critical Slots *
Ammo Per Ton x1[2]
Ammo Cost (per ton) x0.6[1]
BV (1.0) Clan = N/A

IS = —

BV (2.0) Clan = N/A

IS = See Below[3]

Description[edit]

Tactical Handbook[edit]

Dead-Fire Missiles are one of the most effective weapons to emerge from a search to find cheaper alternatives to the spiraling costs of conventional military hardware in the wake of the Clan Invasion. The Draconis Combine spearheaded this effort as they lost numerous worlds to the Clans, but all Successor States soon followed suit. The DF missile lacks any internal guidance system because they are generally the most expensive component, and their removal made the new missile substantially cheaper to produce. Weight savings enabled manufacturers to pack the warheads with more explosives, giving the DF missile nearly twice the punch of its standard cousins.[4]

Interstellar Operations[edit]

First researched and developed ca. 3050 by the Draconis Combine, the Dead-Fire Missile emerged as an early effort to offset rising munitions costs. Devised as an alternative missile load for standard LRM and SRM launchers, they featured larger warheads at the expense of targeting systems and thrust power. The DCMS appeared impressed by their potential, fielding prototypes by 3052, but the advent of the MRM launcher led the Combine to abandon DF missiles by the end of the 3050s. By that point the technology was shared or copied by virtually every Inner Sphere state at the time.[5]

Manufacturers[edit]

The Dead-Fire Missile is manufactured on following planets:

Brand Planet Company Used by References
Unknown Menke Menke Armor and Armament Capellan Confederation [4]
Unknown Terra ComStar Manufacturing bases Com Guards [4]
Unknown Luthien Luthien Armor Works Draconis Combine [4]
Unknown Gulkana Yeffters Weapons Factory Federated Suns|Federated Commonwealth [4]
Unknown Westover Andurien AeroTech Free Worlds League [4]
Unknown Oriente Oriente Weapon Works Free Worlds League [4]
Unknown Coventry Coventry Metal Works Lyran Commonwealth|Federated Commonwealth [4]
Unknown Skye Cyclops, Incorporated Lyran Commonwealth|Federated Commonwealth [4]
Unknown Tharkad TharHes Industries Lyran Commonwealth|Federated Commonwealth [4]
Unknown Indicass Ceres Metals St. Ives Compact [4]

Damage & Range Table[edit]

Type Damage Minimum Range Short Range Medium Range Long Range References
DF LRM 2/Missile, C5/*(*) 4 1-5 6-10 11-15 [2]
DF SRM 3/Missile, C3/*(*) 1 1-2 3-4 5-6 [2]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Interstellar Operations, p. 219, "Additional Alternate Era Weapons and Equipment"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Interstellar Operations, p. 218, "Additional Alternate Era Weapons and Equipment"
  3. ↑ Interstellar Operations, p. 196, "Alternate Era Weapons and Equipment Battle Value Table"
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Tactical Handbook, pp. 56-57, "Dead-Fire Missile"
  5. ↑ Interstellar Operations, p. 131, "Specialty Munitions: Dead-Fire (DF) Missiles"

Bibliography[edit]

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