SHD-3A1 Shadow Hawk LAM
The Land-Air 'Mech designs have always been viewed with equal measures of skepticism and respect. While able to perform the duties of both Battlemechs and Aerospace fighters due to their unique conversion equipment, they never really excelled in either. While amazing scouts and raiders, there were never enough of them produced to determine their capabilities in large-unit actions. In addition, the usually small tonnage of the LAMs hampered them when slugging it out with the larger 'mechs of the Star League era. In 2730 an attempt to balance the tables a bit was made by Allied Aerospace Inc. of the Draconis Combine. Shortly before halting their tests and concentrating on the later successful Phoenix Hawk LAM design, the engineers at Allied were able to produce three working prototypes of the heavier Shadow Hawk 'mech. Weighing in at 55 tons, it was the heaviest LAM that ever flew--and it barely did at that. One was destroyed during atmospheric testing when its endo-steel internal structure gave way under the flight stresses, the second was decommissioned after it suffered a critical failure of the conversion gear that prevented if from changing out of Air-Mech mode, and the third was captured by Davion forces during a parts raid on the Allied facility during the 2nd Succession War. This vehicle is currently in use by a Knight of the Federated Suns, his family having kept it nominally operational through the use of modified SHD-2D and PHX-HK2 LAM parts. 





Pilot: Sir Geoffrey Sinclair (Dan Brandow)
'Mech Name: Star's Fury
Color Scheme: Air superiority blue/gray with Clan 
Sinclair set of racing stripes along the sides.

Tonnage: 55
Weight Class: Medium LAM
Walking Speed: 5 (54.0 kph)
Running Speed: 8 (86.4 kph)
Jumping Distance: 5 (150m)
AirMech Jumping Distance: 15 (450m)
Thrust: 5 (900 kph in atmosphere)
Overthrust: 8 (1440 kph in atmosphere)
Airframe Structural Integrity: 5 (Endo-Steel)
Fuel: 50 units (LH2)

Maximum Heat Build-up: 19 units/10 sec
Standard Heat Dissipation: 12 units/10 sec
Maximim Heat Dissipation (submerged): 13 units/10 sec

Weapons Load-out:

  Type         Location
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LRM-5              H
M Laser           LA
M Laser           RA
M Laser           LT
M Laser           RT


Ammunition on-board:
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24 reloads for LRM-5 (120 missiles total)



Special Equipment:
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Beagle Active Probe  RT



Armor and Structure Layout: (11.5 tons armor)
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            Internal         External 

H               3               9
CT             18              30/6
LT/RT          13              21/5
LA/RA           9              18
LL/RL          13              26

Source: Artist's Rendering, SLDF Proposal c. 2730
AirMech LAM landing

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