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Title: HT-02 Gauss Gatling Unit


Solaris - July 17, 2005 04:07 PM (GMT)
Designation: HT-02
Zoid(s) For: Godos (replaces Double-Barreled Anti-Aircraft Laser Machinegun), Guysack (replaces tail-mounted weaponry), Stealth Viper (can mount two, replaces 40mm Heavy Machineguns), Maccurtis (mounts on the undercarriage),
Weapons Added: 40mm Tri-Barreled Gauss Gatling
Special Abilities Added: nil
Cost: 7,500

Some people will try and say that the Liger Zero Panzer has hybrid cannons. Naw. This thing has hybrid cannons.
Sorta. They’re technically rifles.
However, just about any experienced engineer will tell you that the idea of a railgun repeater is preposterous at best, and laughably disastrous at anything else. Thus the Gauss Repeater has three low-grade railgun barrels that take about two seconds to recharge, which serve to assist a standard chemical breech. The breech fires a quartet of ferrous flechettes, and the barrel’s electromagnets pick them up and propel them to half again the ordinary bullet’s speed in a feat of amazingly coordinated timing. This allows a firing rate of roughly one shot per second, discharging high-velocity rounds with surprising accuracy up to eight hundred meters. The rounds have excellent penetration, though they deliver a bit less damage than pure gauss rifles because of their lower speed. It has its own battery and thus doesn’t drain energy from the zoid that mounts it. The whole mechanism is about three meters long, with the battery, breech, and FCS all mounted inside an armored casing with the three barrels out front. Despite the complexity of the concept, the weapon is surprisingly simple in design. This lends it a special robust quality, making it more than capable of functioning in conditions other guns scream and cry in. Like underground. Or underwater. They’re still working on making it work in hard vacuum.




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