Excalibur EXC-D1

The EXC-D1 is a 70-ton skirmisher, a 3067 rebuild of the 2619 original that trades its ranged punch for closer-in firepower while keeping the 350 XL fusion engine's cruising speed of 54 km/h and top speed of 86. Where the EXC-B1 carried a Gauss rifle in the right arm, this configuration mounts a Rotary AC/5 there, and a pair of ER medium lasers in the left arm replaces the earlier Small Pulse Laser. The Streak SRM 6 in the left torso stands in for the old LRM 20 and its Anti-Missile System, dropping the Artemis IV fire-control system in the process, and a targeting computer with CASE now occupies the right torso alongside a C3i computer and CASE in the left. Endo steel internal structure and 11 double heat sinks replace the base's standard structure and single heat sinks, and a 150-metre jump capability is added where the EXC-B1 had none. Skobel MechWorks builds the type at Terra.