The Pit Bull is one of Paxton’s success stories in the Gear market. Essentially a redesign of the Warrior for police and urban control use, it has found its way into many police forces on both poles and across the Badlands. The Pit Bull was designed with the Peace Officer Corps in mind and reflects their needs.
The Pit Bull features improved suspension and lighter armor as compared to the Warrior, giving it increased maneuverability when in walker mode. Large high speed tires give it dramatic ground speed when using secondary movement, although its maneuverability is not as great. Good electronics and an ECM pod allow the Pit Bull to use advanced surveillance and electronic warfare techniques to deal with criminals, such as monitoring their communications and jamming their systems. The weapon payload is centered on anti-personnel arms like twin light grenade launchers and a torso-mounted machinegun. These systems are generally loaded with stun or gas grenades and rubber bullets, but they can accept standard ammunition. The Pit Bull also wields the Warrior’s autocannon, to be used against vehicles or as a deterrent.
Usage
The Pit Bull has served very well since its introduction in the TN 1870s. The Peace Officer Corps’ SWOS division uses it almost exclusively and it has been sold to many other militias and police forces. The Pit Bull was widely retrofitted into a combat machine during the War of the Alliance and served with distinction in the Peace river Army. From there it spread to many rover gangs and smuggling rings and it is now not uncommon to see police and criminal forces squaring off, each with Pit Bulls of their own.
Like the Warrior, the Pit Bull has undergone several refits and the current model is actually the Pit Bull Mark III. The changes have been relatively minor, however. The first involved an electronics upgrade, while the second replaced the standard PMW-V470 V-engine with a slightly more powerful version, the PMW-V480.
