AC/5s go from 40mm to 120mm, with the Light AC/5 going from 20mm to 60mm. AC/2s range from 20mm to 90mm (which I only found up to 80mm, the 90 comes from either Sarna, TechManual, or Battletechnology I can't remember which).
Itisn't the computer itself but other aspects of it). "The US Army believes that this change alone will reduce the weight of the already existing variants by 2 tons." (So if you ever thought the Targeting Computer weights were unrealistic.guess again.
In a video about the Abrams, from a Canadian tank engineer/artillery crewman, he noted that among the updates for the M1A3 Abrams, which they intend to retroactively install on previous models, is the transition of replacing the traditional cabling for their targeting computers with Fiber Optics. Lazy quote from another post in Hand Actuators. It is mentioned that different manufacturers allocate the weight differently to suit their niche.
"The magnetic coils, generators and cooling units constitute over half of its mass." The tonnage is typically distributed with 1 ton for a large thick barrel, around 3 tons for cooling units (including thermal insulators), 2 tons for the main weapon itself (generators and magnetic coils) and an additional ton in cables to power it. yeah Bea's creations should be the non-canon element.
So to pull how to build your own AI from Star League stuff, considering that the Terran Hegemony did it and then destroyed it and all the stuff to never repeat the mistake. and quickly learned their lesson back in the 2300s before mechs were even built. Side note, Mechwarrior RPG 1st edition openly states that they used to run giant Warships by AI. (It was canon for almost 28 years before the guy that put an AI machine controlling several dozen mechs which he called "The Broken" who the hell names an AI broken and then expects it to not break decided "Rather than reprinting them with all new in house assets and updating what they use for lore since we don't really have all the copies anyway, we'll just write them off as not canon anymore. The PPC, for example, was given a breakdown in Battletechnology. Some of this weight is actually included in each ammunition "ton" you attach, sure, but part of it is allocated to the weapon.
It includes the entire apparatus including the loading mechanisms, and since autocannons in mechs don't have manual refills or exchanges of cassettes (magazines), it must include the auto-loader, which also includes how it gets the different magazines (since many are magazine fed) from the ammo bin to the weapon itself. The barrels are somewhat heavy, it is true.īut the ACs in battletech, much like the weight estimation for autocannons in real life, encompass more than just the barrel and the base "gun". Is reasonably heavy, but most of the weight is actually in the back with the feeding mechanism, the motors, etc. Now the barrel size doesn't matter so much as for why it's a big AC. If the LRM launcher can be tilted, that's even better for it (though the art never encompasses that concept). Hadn't thought of that but I do agree, that would be a good reason for a high mounted SRM launcher.
The original Atlas either should have carried PPCs or Large Lasers in the arms and a small AC and LRM-5 in the torso, or the original artwork should have better matched the canon specs. That being said, I never understood why the original TRO3025 specs gave the Atlas a big AC and LRM launcher with small arm energy weapons when the artwork clearly shows a small gun and LRM launcher and comparatively big arm guns. LRMs will go over short obstacles, but the direct fire SRMs should be as close to cockpit level as possible to minimize profile when "peaking".Īlthough looking at the overall Atlas design, "peaking" maneuvers was clearly not what the designer had in mind what with all the low mounted weaponry. Speaking as someone who has recently been trying to make a good build in MWO with a mech chassis clearly optimized for missiles, the reason is that LRMs are indirect fire (in the MWO interpretation anyway) and SRMs are direct fire. As for why the stock Atlas's LRM is hip mounted while the SRM is chest mounted, we will probably never know.