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The [[FCS]] '''''Claymore''''' was the first ship of her class to enter service; a new design of assault [[DropShip]] created by the [[Federated Commonwealth]].

==History==
The ''Claymore'' was the result of a development program that began initially at the [[Shipil Company]] shipyards above [[Skye]] in [[3047]], stalled in the opening stages of the [[Operation Revival|Clan invasion]] and then began again when the apparent vulnerability of Clan aerospace assets was exposed during battles at [[Radstadt]].<ref name="TRO:3057Rp10"/>

The FCS ''Claymore'' was launched at the end of [[3053]] and by mid-[[3054]] was being tested in raids against the Clans by the [[Sixth Lyran Guards]]. The FCS ''Claymore'' was considered enough of a success that in [[3055]] the class was in full production.<ref name="TRO:3057Rp10">''Technical Readout: 3057'', p. 12: "Claymore"; also ''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 10</ref>

The ''Claymore'' was assigned to the [[Luzerne]] system during [[Operation BULLDOG]], escort to the ComStar ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class CSV ''[[Harmonious Thought]]''.<ref name="TDRp26+">''The Dragon Roars'', pp. 26–28: "Fool Me Twice"</ref> The WarShip was lost in the debacle,<ref name="HTPLp6">''Historical Turning Points: Luzerne'', p. 6</ref> but it is unclear as to whether the ''Claymore'' was lost.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[The Dragon Roars]]''
* ''[[Historical Turning Points: Luzerne]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3057]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3057 Revised]]''

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[[Category: Individual Claymore-class DropShips]]