<strong>Code Name</strong>: Altair Vanquish<br/><strong>Launch Date</strong>: 2015<br/><strong>Classification</strong>: Mark I<br/><strong>Status</strong>: Active<br/><strong>Country of Origin</strong>: Canada<br/><strong>Height</strong>: 85m<br/><strong>Weight</strong>: 2450 Tonnes<br/><strong>Appearance</strong>:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> The Heaviest Jaeger on the Western Hemisphere </div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/RZhea2i.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>Equipment</strong>:<br/><em>Incinerator Cores</em>- The hump just above Altair's head, along with the ports in his right hands can fire blasts of oxyhydrogen fuel that explode violently when ignited. The blast heats up to over two thousand degrees Celsius instantaneously and provides enough shockwave to tear through metal and rip the limbs off of kaiju with sheer concussive force. Used in Karla's favourite maneuver, wherein Altair grabs a Kaiju head with it's massive right hand and detonates the fuel right into the skull of the beast. Better known for the radius in which the scraps of Kaiju head fall. Four charges in fire-linked systems.<br/><br/><em>VT55 Impaler Spike</em>- In Altair's left hand, where the incinerator core is stored on the other arm, a large steel spike rests in contact with a hollow barrel. Loaded and ejected from behind the elbow, cartridges explode with several hundred pounds of shaped explosives. The shaped detonation sends the hand mounted spike rocketing out at mach ten. Too quick for anything to react to, and more often than not completely deadly. Once impaled in a Kaiju, barbs on the head of the spike are kinetically activated and lock into the flesh for greater control. With category 1 Kaiju, Altair was often so much larger that he could pick up the Kaiju, or worry it to pieces on the end of the spike. For larger Kaiju, bringing them in too close for their heavy clawing and goring to be effective becomes a valid tactic, with the incinerator cores giving Altair the definitive edge in grappling range. Can be deployed as an ordinary hand spike, but without the explosive force, it becomes far less effective. Three charges.<br/><br/><em>PPD28 Back-mounted Mortars</em>- Altair Vanquish's final and longest range weapon, the Back mounted mortars deploy by raising up off of the back where they rest and coming over the shoulder, where they can be fired from. The explosive shell his so heavy and the kick back so powerful, that Altair has to be braced, lest he fall over when firing. The shells themselves behave more like ballistic weaponry than explosive, due to the massive charge used to fire them. Launched in a linear instead of parabolic arc, the Mortars explode with an explosive force equaling roughly a hundred kilos of TNT. With the option of being a long ranged air burst explosive, or a closer ranged projectile, the Back mounted mortars offer a diverse tool in dealing with the Kaiju threat, while simultaneously blowing things up.<br/>