Statistics
Weight: 96kg
Height: 47cm
Length: 120cm
Width: 133cm
Speed: 12mph
Year built: 2002
Status: Retired
Weight class: Heavyweight
Location: Hornchurch, Essex, England
Armour
Steel
Power
2 x Electric motors running on 750 watts, one powering each wheel.
Weapons
Sideways flipper designed to flip opponents to the left of the machine. Configuration can also be changed so it can have two sideways flippers - one for each side. Rear end also houses two ramming spikes.
Strengths
Is very agile, has strong armour and has a unique choice of weapon.
Weaknesses
Weapon has a limited gas supply.
Team Lightning
Laurie Calvert, Richard De Smedt and Albert Schuller
Information
Lightning is a robot that was built in 2002 by Laurie Calvert from Hornchurch, Essex. It first made its TV appearance on Robot Wars Extreme where it finished as semi-finalist in the Tag Team Terror along with Steel Avenger. It returned for Series 7 where it got to the heat final and lost there to Gravity. Lightning's sideways flipper is a first amongst robot weaponry.
Achievements
• Robot Wars Extreme 2 - Tag Team Terror Semi-Finalists with Steel Avenger (2002)
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