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	The ''Black Eagle'''s Front & Front Right/Left arcs are armed with pair of 20-tubed Long-Range Missile Launchers with pair of Large Lasers.  Its aft-sides missile weaponry is reduced to a single LRM-20, its close range weaponry is increased. Its Laser Bay consists of single Large Laser and four [[medium laser]]s. Covering its aft, is the same single weapons bay with large laser/4 medium laser arrangement.  The ship carries 24 tons of ammunition for its LRM-20 launchers.<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/>		The ''Black Eagle'''s Front & Front Right/Left arcs are armed with pair of 20-tubed Long-Range Missile Launchers with pair of Large Lasers.  Its aft-sides missile weaponry is reduced to a single LRM-20, its close range weaponry is increased. Its Laser Bay consists of single Large Laser and four [[medium laser]]s. Covering its aft, is the same single weapons bay with large laser/4 medium laser arrangement.  The ship carries 24 tons of ammunition for its LRM-20 launchers.<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/>
−	The ''Black Eagle'' is designed to carry 12 BattleMechs, deployed from 2 doors.  It also has 520 ton cargo capacity for spare parts and supplies, also accessed with two doors.	+	The ''Black Eagle'' is designed to carry 12 BattleMechs, deployed from 2 doors.  It also has 520 ton cargo capacity for spare parts and supplies, also accessed with door doors.
	The design was built using what would later be considered [[Primitive Technology]], thus its armor and other components would be outclassed by later designs.		The design was built using what would later be considered [[Primitive Technology]], thus its armor and other components would be outclassed by later designs.

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{{InfoBoxDropShip | image = Pentagon (DropShip).jpg | name = ''Black Eagle'' | manufacturer = [[Mikoyan Aerospace Consortium]]<ref name="XTRO:Pv2">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 2'', pp. 15 & 33 "Black Eagle Ship Profile"</ref> | production year=2453 | year reference=<ref>''[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/5593/ MUL online date for the ''{{PAGENAME}}'']''</ref> | Use = 'Mech Carrier | Type = Military Spheroid | Tech Base = [[Primitive Technology|Inner Sphere (Primitive)]] | Mass = 4,500<ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/5593 Master Unit List's Profile of ''Black Eagle'' DropShip] </ref> | Structural Integrity = 16 | Length = 77 | Width = 77 | Height = 90 | Drive System = Fusion | Safe Thrust = 2 g | Maximum Thrust = 3 g | Fuel (tons) = 250 tons | Fuel (days) = 1.84 days | Armament = <span></span> * 8x [[LRM-20]] * 9x [[large laser]] * 12x [[medium laser]] | Armor = 55 tons [[Primitive Armor]] | Crew = 52 *5 officers *14 enlisted/non-rated *9 gunners *24 bay personnel<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> | Escape Pods/Life Boats = 1/8<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> | Heat Sinks = 156 Standard<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> | BV (1.0) = ??? | BV (2.0) = ??? }} ==Description== Originally designed as an armored vehicle carrier for the [[Terran Hegemony]], the '''''Black Eagle''''' was the answer to the [[HAF]]'s need for a larger [[BattleMech]] carrier. Previous designs had been simple conversions of civilian cargo haulers with limited carrying capacities and defenses. However, the ''Black Eagle'' solved many of the logistic problems of deploying these early BattleMechs, such as the ''[[Mackie]]'', quickly into battle. Rearranging its cargo decks, Mikoyan Aerospace Consortium was able to create enough space for a company worth of the Hegemony's newest war machines. Initially assigned to the HAF's assault companies, these ships would be used in the initial stages of an invasion to secure a beachhead for attacking Hegemony units. The ship would thus become the Hegemony's principal assault BattleMech carrier, which in turn would become highly successful in its mission. While the original ''Black Eagle'' was technically a [[DropShuttle]], created before the invention of the [[K-F Boom]] [[Docking Collar]] that defined the concept of "DropShip", subsequent DropShip designs such as the ''[[Lion]]'' and later the ''[[Union]]'' would be patterned after it. The design's success would prompt the [[Terran Hegemony]] to use it as the basis for its ''[[Pentagon]]''-Class Assault DropShip design.<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> (Which incidentally explains the visual similarity; see Notes.) ==Armament & Capacities== Well-armed for its time, the ship's weaponry is almost evenly spread among its weapon arcs. The ''Black Eagle'''s Front & Front Right/Left arcs are armed with pair of 20-tubed Long-Range Missile Launchers with pair of Large Lasers. Its aft-sides missile weaponry is reduced to a single LRM-20, its close range weaponry is increased. Its Laser Bay consists of single Large Laser and four [[medium laser]]s. Covering its aft, is the same single weapons bay with large laser/4 medium laser arrangement. The ship carries 24 tons of ammunition for its LRM-20 launchers.<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> The ''Black Eagle'' is designed to carry 12 BattleMechs, deployed from 2 doors. It also has 520 ton cargo capacity for spare parts and supplies, also accessed with door doors. The design was built using what would later be considered [[Primitive Technology]], thus its armor and other components would be outclassed by later designs. ==Design Quirks== * [[Easy to Maintain]] * [[Obsolete|Obsolete/2545]] ==Variants== *; Original design : When originally built, the ''Black Eagle'' was an armored combat vehicle carrier. The ship featured 3 cargo decks, with enough room for a battalion of light combat vehicles or a company of heavy ones.<ref name="XTRO:Pv2"/> ==Notes== * In what is probably an oversight, the ''Black Eagle'' is consistently presented as a DropShip (not a DropShuttle) in both its initial introduction into canon in ''[[XTRO: Primitives Vol2]]'' and its [[MUL]] entry. However, it is equally consistently described as having been created in 2453, i.e. a decade prior to the invention of the K-F Boom/Docking Collar technology that defines DropShips in modern parlance. For the purpose of this article and the categorisation it is assumed that the original ''Black Eagle'' was a DropShuttle class that, being a successful design, was upgraded and transformed into a proper DropShip class at some point after 2470. * The image provided for the ''Black Eagle'' was originally used for ''[[Pentagon]]''-class DropShip, establishing a strong visual similarity between those otherwise distinct spacecraft. (Reusing existing art was a frequent cost saving measure used for units devised for the ''Experimental Technical Readout'' series of PDFs.) ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 2]]'' * ''[[Master Unit List]]'' [[Category: DropShip classes]] [[Category: Inner Sphere DropShip classes]] [[Category: 'Mech Carrier DropShip classes]] [[Category: Military DropShip classes]] [[Category: Spheroid DropShip classes]] [[Category: Transport DropShip classes]]

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