Fluid Gun

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Fluid Gun
Production information
Type Direct Fire (Ballistic)
Tech Base Inner Sphere Advanced/Clan[1][2]
Year Availability Pre-Spaceflight
Technical specifications
Heat 0[3]
Damage Varies
Minimum Range 0[3]
Short Range 1[3]
Medium Range 2[3]
Long Range 3[3]
Tons 2[1]
Critical Slots 2[1]
Space Slots 1[1]
Ammo Per Ton 20[3]
Cost (unloaded) 35,000[1]
Ammo Cost (per ton) 500[1]
BV (2.0) 6 (gun) / 1 (ammo)[4]



Description

The Fluid Gun is nothing more than a militarized Fluid Sprayer system. By toughening the feed lines and storage tanks, the engineers of Solaris VII created a system roughly equivalent to a Flamer. Unlike the flamer however, the Fluid Gun can store and spray a variety of fluid types. Clever arena fighters have used water, oil slicks, Inferno Fuel, Cooling Fluid, and Corrosive Fluids in matches.[2][5]

Though a flexible weapon, if the Fluid Gun's storage tanks are ruptured they will inflict damage equivalent to a Machine Gun hit on the internal structure of the unit carrying it. Worse, the fluids stored in the ammo bin will leak through the chassis of the unit, causing additional damage.[2][5]

Models

The Fluid Gun is manufactured on the following planets:

Brand Planet Company Used by References
Omnitech Firehose Solaris VII Omnitech Industries FLS-P5 Flashfire [6]
Achernar High-capacity Fluid Gun Achernar Achernar BattleMechs RCL-4 Dig Lord MiningMech [7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Tactical Operations, p. 407, "Heavy Weapons And Equipment Construction Data"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tactical Operations, p. 313, "Fluid Gun"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Tactical Operations, p. 406, "Heavy Weapons And Equipment Combat Data"
  4. Tactical Operations, p. 382, "Inner Sphere Weapons And Equipment BV Table"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Mappack: Solaris VII, p. 59, "Fluid Gun"
  6. Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade, p. 132, "FLS-P5 Flashfire"
  7. Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised, p. 220, "RCL-4 Dig Lod MiningMech"

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