Thunder LRM

Thunder Long Range Missile

Thunder LRMs are an alternate ammunition type available for Long Range Missile launchers.

Overview

First fielded in 2621, each Thunder LRM missile, referred to by the Clans as FASCAM (Field Artillery Scatterable Mines) rounds, contains five small but powerful anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines which scatter out when fired, packing enough explosive force to damage the legs of many BattleMechs.

The Thunder LRM was reintroduced in 3052 by the Federated Commonwealth.

While the other Great Houses view their indiscriminate destructive nature as dishonorable, the Capellan Confederation has long relied on mines to make up for its lack of military forces. The CCAF is the largest user of Thunder LRMs in the Inner Sphere, which has led Capellan researchers to develop new variants on the standard Thunder round in 3057, the Thunder-Augmented, Thunder-Vibrabomb, Thunder-Inferno, and Thunder-Active.

Bibliography

• Field Manual: Capellan Confederation
• TechManual
• Technical Readout: 2750
• Technical Readout: 3050