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Mk VI Tomahawk
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Viggers/Chrauler MBR-04-Mk VI Tomahawk Main Battle Robot
Equipment Type: main battle robot, series 04
Government: U.N. Spacy
Manufacturer: Viggers/Chrauler
Introduction: February 2007
Accommodation: pilot only
Dimensions: height 12.7 meters (overall), 11.27 meters (up to head unit); length 5.1 meters; width 7.9 meters
Mass: 31.3 metric tons
Power Plant: Kranss-Maffai MT808 thermonuclear reactor developing 2800 bhp;
auxiliary generator GE EM9G fuel generator rated at 450 kW
Propulsion: many x low-thrust vernier thrusters beneath multipurpose hook/handles.
Design Features: removable weapons bays; searchlight option pack; retractable periscope telescope
- Armament -
Guns:
2 x Mauler PBG-11 liquid-cooled electrically-charged particle beam gun
2 x Ramington M-89 12.7 mm air-cooled MG
2 x Astra TZ-III gun cluster with each cluster featuring the following: 1 x laser gun, 1 x 25 mm MG, 1 x 180 mm grenade launcher, 1 x flamethrower
Bombs & Missiles:
2 x Bifors close-in self-guided rocket launchers with 12 rockets per launcher (24 rockets total)
1 x Erlikon anti-aircraft self-guided missile option pack with 6 missiles
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The first of the MBR-04 series Destroids, the Tomahawk Mk I entered service in February 2007. Conceived as a non-variable combat robot designed to counter giant-sized infantry, the Tomahawk was built using OverTechnology taken researched from the crash of the alien space craft known as the SDF-1 Macross in 1999. Once successfully tested, the Tomahawk became the basis for three other Destroid types and the improved Tomahawk Mk VI quickly followed in late 2007.
The Tomahawk Mk VI is the most heavily armed Destroid of the MBR-04 series and the most widely deployed model. Of the nearly 600 hundred Destroids aboard the SDF-1 Macross in February 2009, over 500 were Tomahawk Mk VI units. Armed with a wide array of weaponry suited to nearly any combat operation, the Tomahawk features particle cannons, missiles, machine guns, lasers and flamethrowers to unleash fire in any role from anti-personnel to anti-aircraft. The Mk VI version also features a retractable periscope and includes the option of mounting searchlight/missile packs in one or both mounts on either side of the top weapons bays.
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Debut: Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Episode 6
Pilot(s): no notables
Other appearances: Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Original mechanical designer: Miyatake Kazutaka
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Information Courtesy of the Macross Compendium: www.macross.anime.net/wiki/Main_Page
Images From - Macross Perfect Memory and other macross books.
C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist.
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