Design: Invid
Builder: Invid
Operator:
Iigaa: Served with the Invid entry date unknown, first recorded sightining was in 2016.
Claw Fighter: Entry Date Unknown, first observed in 2031.
Dimensions:
Iigaa
Claw Fighter
Height w/o guns:
2.51 meters
2.40 meters
Height w/guns:
2.73 meters
2.62 meters
Breadth:
3.75 meters
3.75 meters
Depth:
3.25 meters
4.45 meters
Mass:
4.50 metric tons
3.50 metric tons
Propulsion Systems:
Engine:
IE-2 vectorable plasma-shock expansion thruster in the rear, with a power output of 71 kN.
Claw Fighter: IE-1 quadruple vectorable plasma-shock expansion thruster in the rear, with a power output of 106 kN.
Powerplant:
Protoculture Cell Energizer.
Fuel Capacity: 4 standard canisters of protoculture
Endurance and Mobility Limits:
Flying Speed: 892 kph for Iigaa and ? kph for claw fighter.
Running Speed: 64 kph
Service Ceiling: 45 kilometers
Protoculture cell endurance is approximately 120 hours for Iigaa and 80 for Claw Fighter of continious combat usage
Delta-V: 4.2 capacity.
Offers full protection from NBC environment as well as ? days air supply
Weapons Systems:
Two armor-piercing pincers are located at the tip of the arms of the mecha.
Two hardpoints for gunpods are mounted on top of the mecha. Both hardpoints always mount identical gunpods and fire in parallel. The following gunpods have been observed:
ILG-1 plasma beam cannon (first observed 2031). This pod stores plasma and discharges it in a continuous beam. Typically, a one-second burst contains 2.5 MJ of thermal and kinetic energy. The ILG-1 can store sufficient plasma for 20 seconds of continuous fire.
ILG-2 plasma pulse cannon (first observed 2031). This pod stores plasma and discharges it in discrete packages ('annihilation discs'). Typically, a one-second burst from a single cannon contains 2.6 MJ of thermal and kinetic energy. The ILG-2 can store sufficient plasma for 20 seconds of continuous fire.
ILG-3 plasma pulse cannon (first observed 2043). This pod stores plasma and discharges it in discrete packages ('annihilation discs'). Typically, a one-second burst from a single cannon contains 3.0 MJ of thermal and kinetic energy. The ILG-3 can store sufficient plasma for 25 seconds of continuous fire.
Electonics:
One IMSC-1 visual/LLLTV sensor cluster in the center of the front plate. The spectral resolution of this sensor is very poor.
(post 2040 mecha on Earth only): One IMSC-2a Protoculture sensor, providing detection and tracking of active protoculture-powered mecha. For detection of a high-power Veritech fighter, good resolution extends out to 3 km, fair resolution out to 6 km, and poor resolution out to 16.8 km. A typical Destroid is detectable at slightly more than half these distances, a Cyclone at four percent of these distances, and a Gallant rifle at about one percent of these distances. Mecha in service on Earth from around 2035 to 2040 operated equivalently at about twenty-five percent of the above ranges.
It is suspected that the Invid utilized a radar system on the Iigaa, but such a system has never been confirmed. However, the innate radiographic qualities of the Invid suggest that the system may be so atypical that Terran researchers simply have not identified it yet, be it from wreckage or by signal analysis.
Armor:
Armor is metallic, ceramic, organic composite.
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Updated: 11:10:2000
Technical Information from the Unofficial Robotech Reference Guide