F6-16 Battleframe

Specifications
Use	Combat Frame
Production Code	Type 6-16
Manufacturer	Moscow Heavy Industries
Height	4.6 meters
Speed	Walker: 50 kph SMS: 120 kph

The Type 6-16 was the first Battle Frame successfully produced by CEF engineers. Reverse engineered and extensively modified from captured Terranovan machines and plans, the design and testing took the better part of a decade to complete. Battle Frames were already entering into low rate initial production runs in preparation for full-scale mass production when the 1st Black Talon strike team arrived on Caprice, disrupting the CEF’s timetable.

Built to broadly similar specifications as a Terranovan Gear, the Type 6-16 is first and foremost a weapons platform built to carry heavy weapons into battle. Many of the machine’s components would be familiar to a Terranovan military technician: V-Engines, hydraulic powertrain, neural net control systems and a torso cockpit. What would not be familiar is the advanced armor materials, the hover SMS, advanced superconductors and hydrogen fuel systems, among other things.

Terran technical expertise cannot yet match the centuries of experience in ruggedized Gear manufacturing possessed by the Terranovans and consequently the Frame is not as solidly constructed as its colonial counterparts. The Type 6-16 does however have a much higher power-to-mass ratio due to the expertise of Terran and Caprician engineers in ceramic engines and high performance turbine systems.

Like all Frames the 6-16 doesn’t have any built-in weapons and all armament is carried on forearm and shoulder hardpoints. The standard layout of energy weaponry and guided missiles is intended to complement that of the hovertanks with which it will most often be associated. Furthermore, the Frame is cleared to use any of the Octopus Packs already in production for even more firepower.

Usage

To date the Type 6-16 has fared very well in skirmishes with irregular resistance groups in the Caprician Highlands but less well when confronting Black Talon Teams. 3rd Fleet’s Ground Command is at a loss to explain this disparity of performance and is coming under increasing pressure to solve problem.

Current thinking is that a complete review of pilot training procedures for both troopers and soldiers may rectify these deficiencies.

Gallery

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  Frame combat

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  Command-type F6-16

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  F6-16 engagement