title: Technical Readout 3050/Battletech: The Return of Kerensky
author: J. Andrew Keith
description: Details all the new, state-of-the-art BattleMechs, both the improved Inner Sphere 'Mechs and those used by the Clans. Also included are construction rules for building new Mechs using the awesome new weapons, armor, and heat sinks that are available.
zlib_text: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  Thanks to all the folks I met and spoke with at the Air Force Research
  Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate and Airborne Laser Special Projects
  Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Special thanks to my
  old friend Colonel Ellen Pawlikowski, ABL SPO commander, for inviting me to
  visit her incredible staff and facilities; Lieutenant Colonel Joel Olsen,
  Lieutenant Colonel Mark Neice, Major Steve Smiley, Captain Carey Johnson,
  Captain Barrett McCann, Captain Dave Edwards, Captain Lynn Anderson, and Tim
  Foley, ABL SPO; and Rich Garcia, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Alley, Captain Eric
  Moomey, Conrad Dziewalski, Dr. Bob Fugate, Mike Connor, and Dr. Kip Kendrick
  of the Directed Energy Directorate.
  
  Special thanks to Ken Englade, I SPO public affairs, for all his hard work in
  setting up a great tour of all the facilities at Kirtland.
  
  Thanks to David and Cheryl Duffield, Susan Bailey, Dean and Meredith Meiling,
  Sandy Scarcella, and Ed Bolecky for their extraordi