Crimson Typhoon (Crimson Typhoon) is the first mech destroyed in the Battle of Hong Kong, when I watched the theater was a stranglehold, as the most distinctive and design of the four mechs, Crimson Storm's combat ability has obviously been artificially reduced, it can be said that many of the original settings are not reflected in the movie.
The Crimson Storm belongs to China's fourth-generation mech, designed as a light armored support type, weighing only more than 1700 tons (Russia's Chernow Alpha weighs more than 2400 tons), so it is not strange for a small man who is not good at melee combat to fight monsters.
Let's first take a look at a few of China's early models of mechs
As a major power in the western Pacific, China has a long coastline and most of its important economic zones are located along the coast, so China is the most active participant in the "Jaeger Plan" and the p.p.d.c.
The Horizon Warrior is China's first mech, a Mark I type, which was finalized in March 2015, and after six months of final assembly at the "Yerg Factory" in Changzhou, the first mech officially rolled off the production line in September. Not long after China launched its own mech program, it began to build the world's first comprehensive support base, "Broken Dome", in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
Under the Rim of the Pacific Mutual Defense Agreement, China also needs to assist in the defense of a large area of the Adochina Peninsula extending to the Philippine Archipelago, so the base was chosen in Hong Kong (China's northern Bohai Bay is defended by Russia's Vladivostok base).
The Horizon Warrior is a heavily armored defensive type that weighs more than 2,200 tons and uses a small nuclear reactor as a power source, which makes its theoretical combat endurance nearly unlimited and saves a lot of internal space. On its shoulders are two huge cannonball-shaped air receivers used to store large amounts of liquid helium, which can be sprayed outward through the four cannon ports in the abdomen, freezing the limbs of the monster and killing them, minimizing the pollution caused by the monster's blue blood.
"Horizon Warrior" was placed high hopes at the beginning of the design, because the scope of China's defense also includes a large part of Southeast Asia, so the design and production of this type of mech has also been injected by the Philippines and Singapore, coupled with China's strong production capacity, "Horizon Warrior" originally planned to produce two, but actually produced four, is the largest number of mass production models in the entire "Jaeger Plan".
Four "Horizon Warriors" have been deployed in the Hong Kong base, except for the first verification machine used as the practical training of the "Yerg cadets", the remaining three mechs have been sent to different areas to carry out missions and have achieved good results. By 2021, Horizon Warriors II and IV were destroyed to an irreparable state during operations in Singapore and Manila, respectively. Aircraft Three was destroyed by a class III monster in 2023 while traveling to the "Shattered Dome Base" in Lima, Peru, for support.
Lima base
After the emergence of the "Serizawa Classification", China soon began to step up the development of the next generation of mechs, and the "Horizon Warriors" exposed many problems in combat, and they were in urgent need of improvement in the next generation of mechs. The military found that the combat time between mechs and monsters generally does not exceed two hours, and the time for double "neuronal bridging" (empathy) generally reaches the limit in 3 to 4 hours, coupled with the irreversible damage caused by the radiation of the reactor, so the original nuclear power scheme was abandoned and traditional chemical energy was used.
As a mark iii integrated mech, the "Shaolin Kid" belongs to the long-range firepower supplement of the "Horizon Warrior", which is equipped with the IB-20 plasma cannon that was just developed at that time, which can evaporate a part of the blue blood in the body while injuring the monster.
The mech rolled off the production line in 2017, and only one was produced before being replaced by the subsequent model "Crimson Storm", and was destroyed by a monster in Chongming Island, Shanghai in 2023.
"Shaolin Kid" concept map
In 2017, China finalized its own Mark IV mech program " Crimson Storm " , which rolled off the production line in August 2018 at the "Yerg Factory" in Changzhou. It has made some improvements to the design of the "Shaolin Kid" and added some melee capabilities, but it is essentially a "horizon warrior" as a "meat shield" to block the long-range support type after the monster attack.
Cockpit and crew
The most brilliant design of "Crimson Storm" is its "matrix three-person neuron link", which can stably bridge the three brains and allow the body to perform more complex evasive actions.
"Crimson Storm" cockpit
The cockpit is deployed in the "head" position of the mech, with a large one-eyed shape with biometric functions. The neck bite is flexible enough to allow the cockpit to rotate 360 degrees, but this design highlights the mech's flexibility advantage, but it brings a fatal flaw, the head is seriously lacking protection, can not provide effective protection for the crew.
The crew members of crimson storm are the three Wei brothers, who were all ancient puzzle boys on the streets of Hong Kong in their early years. When the first monster appeared in Southeast Asia in 2014, they joined the local militia to help the regular army resist the monster invasion. In 2015, the Wei brothers were selected to enter the "Yerg Academy" in the Hong Kong Theater to become reserve pilots, and in 2018, they officially became the crew of the "Crimson Storm", until they were all killed in the Battle of Hong Kong in 2025, during which the three piloted the "Crimson Storm" to kill 7 monsters, the second highest kill record among the world's mechs.
Combat ability
As a light mech, the armor of the "Crimson Storm" can only be regarded as a middle and lower level, but its body is all made of titanium alloy, and the overall strength is good, so it can perform backflips.
The Crimson Storm is most prominent in its offensive means, with the mechanical arm on the left being an ib-22 multi-lobed plasma cannon (the original script, but changed to a hidden Thundercloud Chainsaw in the film), and two robotic arms on the right, equipped with a Thundercloud Chainsaw, used as self-defense in close combat.
IB-22 multi-lobe plasma cannon
The design of the three arms, combined with the cockpit of the full battlefield perception, makes the "Crimson Storm" a mech that can not only provide long-range fire support, but also protect its entire body in close combat, if the defensive mech "Horizon Warrior" is cooperated, it will certainly achieve good results.
"Crimson Storm"
As the United Nations cut funding for the P.P.D.c and the Yeag Plan, the mechs of various countries gradually became unsustainable, and the "Broken Dome Base" in Hong Kong, which maintained six mechs in its heyday, was also difficult to support, and this mech force could only be split into different areas to assist in the defense of different areas. With the consumption of those "Horizon Warriors" one after another, the remaining "Crimson Storm" could not form an effective combat system, and it was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.
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