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Name/Model:         Hollander LAM BZK-L3
Designer:           Sleeping Dragon
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere (Mixed)
Technology Rating:  F
Tonnage:            35
Role:               Sniper
Configuration:      Land-Air (Standard) BattleMech
Era/Year:           Jihad / 3069
Rules (Current):    Advanced (Extinct)
Rules (Era):        Advanced
Rules (Year):       Experimental
Total Cost:         3,951,518 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,174

Chassis:              Standard
Power Plant:          105 Fusion
Walking Speed:        32.4 kph  
Maximum Speed:        54 kph    
Jump Jets:            Standard
    Jump Capacity:    90 meters
Cruising Speed:       97.2 kph  
Flanking Speed:       151.2 kph 
Safe Thrust Speed:    32.4 kph  
Max Thrust Speed:     54 kph    
Armor:                Standard
Armament:             
    1 Gauss Rifle (C)
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    BZK-L3 Hollander LAM is a diploma work of Dipl. Ing. Julius Schmidt submitted as a study on
    blending of current technologies with extinct equipment to Coventry Technological Institute
    of Engineering. Built as a proof of a concept the Hollander LAM sacrifices raw land mobility
    for full LAM capability that would allow it to relocate rapidly via Land-Air Mech mode,
    allowing it to take previously unreachable sniping positions and pull back faster than ever
    and even return quickly to refill it's limited ammo bin. Schmidt argued that Hollander II
    chassis would probably handle the heavy LAM equipment better, but the chassis of the
    standard BZK-F3, built from sturdier materials, is still capable of supporting the LAM
    landing gear and avionics. In addition to weaker reactor the BZK-L3 has to use smaller
    cockpit to make room for additional equipment and the 'Mech would have to use imported clan
    gauss rifle as local models are too heavy for the chassis until Lyran industry will be able
    to replicate the much more refined capacitors used on clan models. The hardest part of the
    project was actually to make something as un-aerodynamic as the Hollander fly. The solution
    is a off-centre fuselage with gauss rifle located just off the centre of mass to the right
    with the remaining equipment balancing it further left. Whole weapon and cockpit are linked
    with each other making the pilot to aim with cockpit toward the target no matter which LAM
    mode  is the 'Mech using. It somewhat limits weapon traverse, but the 'Mech can compensate
    with torso rotation. Firing the weapon and probably most other things would be quite
    uncomfortable for the pilot due to the cockpit being firmly joined with the chassis, but
    Hollander LAM has never been intended for production or combat anyway, so the drawbacks were
    deemed acceptable.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  3.50                     
LAM Conversion Eqpt:                                                   4.00                     
Engine:                                     105 Fusion                 3.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 3                                               
    Running MP:                                 5                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 3                                               
    AirMech Cruise MP:                          9                                               
    AirMech Flank MP:                           14                                              
    Safe Thrust:                                3                                               
    Max Thrust:                                 5                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            10                     0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  2.00                     
Cockpit:                                      Small                    2.00                     
Fuel:                                           80                     0.00                     
Armor Factor:                                   71                     4.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              8       
    Center Torso:                      11             10       
    Center Torso (rear):                               3       
    R/L Torso:                          8              8       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  3       
    R/L Arm:                            6              6       
    R/L Leg:                            8              8       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Jump Jet                                                  CT                1          0.50             
Gauss Rifle (C)                                           RT                6         12.00             
Gauss Rifle (Ammo 16) (C)                                 RT                2          2.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 20
TP: BM,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 1,  MV: 6"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 2 / (L) 2,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 2,  Structure (S): 3
Specials: FUEL4, LAM(18"g/3a)
 
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