BattleTechnology #11
Stefan Paul Melin-Dempsey
Chassis: Defiance 55D
Power Plant: DefFire 275
Cruising Speed: 54 kph
Maximum Speed: 86 kph
Jump Jets: Swingline X-1000
Jump Capacity: 150 meters
Armor: HardDef 105
Armament:
2 LRM-10 launchers
2 SRM-2 launchers
1 Medium Laser
2 Small Lasers
Manufacturer: Defiance BattleMechs
Communications System: Coventry Communications
Targeting and Tracking System: Banzai Ltd
Record Sheets: DV-7S Dervish
In 3027, Defiance Motors, a division of Defiance Industries, opened the new factory it had been building and rebuilding since 2995. The R&D divisions on Hesperus II and Furillo had been competing in designing a new Dervish variant. Hesperus II won, with a design that changed as little as possible of the 'workhorse of the battlefield' other than to finally give it some rear defense. With a new in-house source of fusion engines, the variant proved economically possible for the first time.
With the rebuilding after the Fourth Succession War, the Factory began full scale production, twenty DV-7Ss a year. Even after two transport loads were lost somewhere in the Tamar Pact/Rasalhague/Greater Valkyrate intersection, some 80 of these �Mechs are known to exist in the Inner Sphere, most of them in the Federated Commonwealth. (Twenty-five were lost in the Vega Prefecture of House Kurita during the late hostilities: it must be presumed that some were salvaged.)
Capabilities:
The changes in weapon positions (one medium laser and one SRM-2 placed on the CT rear, the other medium laser replaced by two small lasers) allow the �Mech to take better advantage of the 360 degree challenge which today's battlefields offer a pilot. The design parameters which kept the silhouette of the standard Dervish, even including medium laser mounts on the arms camouflaging the small lasers actually present, often allow the variant a chance to get in a surprise counterattack on a foe who is not expecting any armament on the lightly-armored rear of a Dervish.
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