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Heavy Transport B1

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Production information
Manufacturer
Mission
Type Wheeled
Technical specifications
Mass 20
Armor
Engine Class 80 ICE
Speed 86.4 km/h
Armament

1x SRM-2


Description

A militarized version of a generic catchall group of wheeled trucks presented in MechWarrior: The BattleTech Role Playing Game (first edition) with masses between 15 and 25 tons, the Heavy Transport B1 is an armed 20-ton wheeled truck.[1] A record sheet for the baseline model was published in Record Sheets Volume Five: Vehicles.

Weapons and Equipment

The Heavy Transport B1 as presented is armed with a turret-mounted SRM-2, and armored with 4 ton of armor.[1] It features 7 tons of cargo capacity.

Variants

Variants mentioned in the writeup present various armament options including the aforementioned SRM-2 version, one with a machine gun, and one with a power amp and a small laser.[1] No record sheets were published for any variant save the SRM-2 armed one.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 MechWarrior RPG, p. 59

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