Mad Cat III 5

The Mad Cat III 5 is a 55-ton skirmisher, a 3097 rework of the 3076 Mad Cat III X missile boat. Where the X carried an ER Medium Laser and ER Small Laser in each arm plus a pair of ER Micro Lasers in each torso, this variant strips the arms down to a single Heavy Medium Laser apiece and drops the micro lasers entirely, while an LRM 20 remains in each torso. The Artemis V fire-control systems that guided those LRM 20s on the X are gone. Endo steel internal structure replaces the endo-composite framing, ferro-fibrous armor replaces the ferro-lamellor plating, and the heat-sink count climbs from 10 double to 16 double, all on the same 330 XL fusion engine giving 65 km/h cruising and 97 km/h top speed. The design carries enhanced communications gear and is known as maintenance-intensive, and it is built at Manufacturing Plant DSF-IT1 on Itabaiana.