Goshawk (Vapor Eagle) 4
- Type
- BattleMech
- Tech
- Clan
- Mass
- 55t
- Role
- Skirmisher
- Intro
- 3066 FedCom Civil War
- Rules
- Standard
- Cost
- 12.31M C-bills
- Move
- Armor
- 172 pts
ER Medium Laser ×4ER Small Laser ×3ATM 6 ×2
Technical Readout: TR:3055U · Record Sheets: RS:3055Uu
Compare this unit
Availability by era
6 eras · 4 factions
| Gun | Pilot | Adj BV |
|---|---|---|
| G0 | 1 | 4,779 |
| G1 | 2 | 4,179 |
| G2 | 3 | 3,476 |
| G3 | 4 | 2,731 |
| G4 | 5 | 2,069 |
| G5 | 6 | 1,779 |
| G6 | 7 | 1,593 |
| G7 | 8 | 1,407 |
| G8 | 8 | 1,324 |
Piloting rides one point worse than Gunnery, capped at Piloting 8, the conventional pairing. Regular is Gunnery 4 / Piloting 5.
Recognition notes
The Goshawk (Vapor Eagle) 4 is a 55-ton skirmisher, cruising at 65 km/h and topping out at 97 km/h, the same pace as the 2850-era 6 model but without that machine's 180-meter jump capability. Where the 6 carries three Machine Guns in the left arm, this variant fields three ER Small Lasers there instead, and the right arm's battery of ER Medium Lasers grows from three to four. In place of the twin Ultra AC/2 racks and torso-mounted Machine Gun, the 4 carries an ATM 6 in each side torso, and it drops the targeting computer that occupied the right torso on the 6. The heat-sink count rises from 11 to 17 double heat sinks. New Kent Armorworks builds the type at New Kent (Celebes).
Armor & loadout
| Weapon / Equipment | Loc | Qty | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Msl | RT · LT | 2 | 40 rds · 4 t |
| Enr | RA ×4 | 4 | |
| Enr | LA ×3 | 3 |