Designation: VM-23 Tactical Anti-Air Turret
Zoid(s) For: Shield Liger, Saber Tiger, Konig Wolf, Geno Saurer
Weapons Added: 80mm AA Machinegun x2, AMD 10mm Beam Vulcan Gun x2, AA Fragmentation Missile Pod, Surface-to-Air Missile Pod x2
Special Abilities Added: Anti-Aircraft Targeting Computer
Cost: 78,000

This modification was designed to handle pesky aerial Zoids, by installing a small turret unit onto the back of the equipped Zoid. This squat, compact modification provides four guns and twelve missiles designed for shooting down high-speed high-altitude Zoids.

The first set of weapons on the turret is a pair of 80mm Anti-Air Machineguns that mount on the left and right of the turret. They face up at a 45 degree angle by default, but can be rotated up and down 45 degrees, along with the 360 degree rotation the turret provides them. These machineguns fire high-velocity shells that are designed to reach higher altitudes, but at a decreased rate, firing roughly eight per second.

Mounted underneath these machineguns are two tiny Vulcan gatling guns, with five 10mm barrels. These guns sport the same range of movement, and can each fire twenty five rounds per second, making them very useful as anti-missile units, but not so much for shooting down Zoids.

Mounted on the top of the turret, facing straight up, is a missile pod loaded up with four anti-air fragmentation missiles. These missiles fly at supersonic speeds and track via a combination of laser tracking and IR sensors. When they get within a specific proximity of the target, they explode into a spray of razor sharp shrapnel shards that can rip through aerial Zoids with ease.

Finally, mounted on the sides of the turret are two standard missile pods that stock four anti-air missiles each. These track via IR means, and cannot target ground targets very effectively. The pods can only fire one missile per second.

Because of where the turret mounts, it prevents other modifications from being mounted, namely the Assault Gatling Unit, Dual Sniper Rifles, and Cannonry Unit, and on the Geno Saurer this unit replaces the 144mm laser rifles.