This actually looks cool

cant tell if she hit something or launched something.

zankde said:

This actually looks cool

It's especially nice to see Gambier Bay being badass rather than a shrinking violet.

This solves my issue of 'why does her flight deck look so weird'.

I swear this has happened in a Gundam series.

Rathurue said:

I swear this has happened in a Gundam series.

Wing Gundam's shield is like that. The Buster Riffle is concealed inside its shield.

I like this idea, her deck being a ballistic shield, I mean. makes her seem like Spas-12 from girs frontline.

Always wondered how she fires her rifle/plane-launcher given the awkward angle of the flight deck relative to the stock and trigger. This makes a lot of sense.

Rathurue said:

I swear this has happened in a Gundam series.

It's a mobile suit...IT'S A CARRIRER!! (explode!)

This somehow makes me think of Ace Combat

So we have a Springfield (Intrepid), a Thompson (Saratoga) and a shotgun of some sort (Gambier). Now we jus' need carriers with a BAR, M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M1919 Browning and a M1A1 Bazooka.

ChaosFox said:

So we have a Springfield (Intrepid), a Thompson (Saratoga) and a shotgun of some sort (Gambier). Now we jus' need carriers with a BAR, M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M1919 Browning and a M1A1 Bazooka.

Actually, Gambier Bay seems to be using an M1A1 Carbine (the paratrooper variant of the M1 Carbine) with a solid stock. The stock matches that of an M1 Carbine, and the pistol grip is correct. So the image is slightly incorrect, but still pretty awesome and my new headcannon as to how Gambier’s deck functions.

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I doubt the artist here thought about portraying it as any kind of period-appropriate shotgun. The pistol grip shotgun design with full stock wasn't a thing until maybe during the late Cold War. Even the Stakeout variant of Ithaca 37, while featuring a pistol grip, didn't come with a full stock.

Though honestly speaking, the design does look like it's a modern day shotgun. Something like you'd find on the Mossberg 500.

Or since the original artwork showed nothing of the gun's design cues, we might as well base it on Kampfer's ZUX-197 Jagdgewehr shotgun.

cd_young said:

I like this idea, her deck being a ballistic shield, I mean. makes her seem like Spas-12 from girs frontline.

And thus further implies that Gamby is somehow related to Pizza Lion.