Gladiator GLD-7R/SF

The GLD-7R/SF is a 3135 rebuild of the 2468-era GLD-1R, turning the old brawler into a 55-ton skirmisher that fights at medium range. Where the original mounted a Large Laser in the right arm, this configuration carries an LB 5-X AC, and the pair of Medium Lasers in the left arm are replaced by twin Improved Heavy Medium Lasers; an SRM 6 in the right torso rounds out weapons the GLD-1R never carried. A lighter 220 Inner Sphere light fusion engine still cruises at 43 km/h and tops out at 65, and Triple-Strength Myomer lets it push its cruising speed to a boosted 65 km/h under combat heat; a jump jet system now carries it 180 metres, something the original lacked entirely. Inner Sphere hardened armor replaces the GLD-1R's primitive plating, ten Inner Sphere double heat sinks stand in for the fourteen single sinks of the original, and Clan CASE II lines both the left arm and the right torso. The reinforced head cowl carries over from the original chassis, and StarCorps Industries builds this configuration at Son Hoa.