Merlin MLN-1E

The MLN-1E reworks the Merlin as a 60-ton sniper fighting at long range, a 3099 rebuild of the 3010 MLN-1A brawler. Where the MLN-1A carried a Medium Laser in each arm, this variant fields a Light PPC in the left arm and another in the right, and the Machine Gun is gone from the left torso, leaving the Flamer there alone. The right torso keeps its PPC but trades the LRM 5 for an MML 5, and CASE II is fitted in that same location. Heat sinks drop from 18 single to 12 double, and the type carries the same rugged, field-serviceable frame and easily-serviced design as the original. Vandenberg Mechanized Industries builds it at New Vandenberg.