Extended Range Medium Laser

ER Medium Laser
Production information
Type Energy (Direct-Fire)
Tech Base Clan / Inner Sphere (IS)
Year Availability Clan = c. 2820

IS = 3058

Technical specifications
Heat 5
Damage Clan = 7

IS = 5

Minimum Range n/a
Short Range Clan = 1-5

IS = 1-4

Medium Range Clan = 6-10

IS = 5-8

Long Range Clan = 11-15

IS = 9-12

Tons 1
Critical Slots 1
Ammo Per Ton n/a
Cost (unloaded) 80,000
Ammo Cost (per ton) n/a
BV (1.0) Clan = 108

IS = 62

BV (2.0) Clan = 108

IS = 62



The Extended-Range Medium Laser (ER Medium Laser) focuses a powerful beam of light on targets that causes damage by melting or shattering armor off target.

As the name suggests, the Extended-Range variant of the Medium Laser improves the focusing system of the laser to project it to much farther ranges. The optics are less efficient, though, necessitating more input power for the same armor ablation and thus more waste heat in the weapon.

As with most Clan energy weapons, the Clans lack their own standard Medium Laser.

Manufacturing

The Extended-Range Medium Laser is manufactured on the following planets:

Brand Planet Company
Ceres Arms Capella Ceres Metals Industries
Ceres Arms St. Ives Ceres Metals Industries
Diverse Optics Sunbeam Irian Diverse Optics Incorporated
BrightBloom New Avalon Achernar BattleMechs
Bright-Blossom Talon Kallon Industries
Defiance Model XII Furillo Defiance Industries
Magna Mk VI Lopez Magna
RAMTech 1500Z New Kyoto RAMTech
Series 7J Tamaron Ashton 'Mech Production Complex
Series J7A Arcadia Arcadia BattleMech Plant CM-T4
TRTTS Mark II Huntress Abysmal Manufacturing Complex


Technical Availability

Weapon / Item: ER Medium Laser
Cost: 80
Age of War –Star League :does not exist
Succession War: does not exist
Clan Invasion – Present: rare
Introduced: 3058 FW / 2824 CJF
Extinction: — / —
Reintroduced: NA / NA

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References

  1. Techmanual p. 289

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