![]() Because of its widespread production, most Clans maintain a large number of Mad Dogs in their toumans. However, despite using some of the same molds (which might be viewed as high praise), the Mad Dog was named as a slur to the Lupus and Timber Wolf, and to Clans Wolf and Coyote. The Mad Dog also used some of the same molds of the Clan Wolf Timber Wolf OmniMech. The Mad Dog was designed by Clan Smoke Jaguar as a second generation OmniMech based on the original heavy OmniMech Lupus of Clan Coyote. The Mad Dog carries eight and a half tons of ferro-fibrous armor for decent protection, although it will not be able to stand up to heavy fire. With its ample firepower and decent speed of 86.4 km/h, it makes a highly mobile firing platform, and as such has spread to near ubiquity among the forces deployed by the Clans, although the design is favored more by Clan Ghost Bear MechWarriors. The reality is that such behavior would be a violation of zellbrigen and that the Mad Dog's configurations are intended to take the fight to the enemy at all ranges. The name also fit the perceived battlefield role of the Mad Dog technical documents from the thirty-first century suggested the role of the Mad Dog was to act as a support 'Mech, and it was theorized to be intended to hold a hill and maintain constant watch over the entire battlefield, like a vulture waiting for its prey. With hunched shoulders, a protruding head, and reverse-jointed legs, the Mad Dog resembles a vulture, so much so that it was code-named Vulture and Hagetaka ("Vulture" in Japanese) by the Inner Sphere forces which first encountered it. ![]() The Mad Dog is a heavy Clan OmniMech used for long-range indirect fire support. ![]()
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