LH-GAT-X103 Hail Buster Gundam

Hail Buster Gundam is a variant of GAT-X103 Buster Gundam developed by the mysterious organization known as Librarian Works. First appeared in photo series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED VS Astray.

Combat Characteristics
Because it was developed from the GAT-X103AP Verde Buster, the Hail Buster Gundam closely resembles the Buster Gundam, but also has anti-ship vulcan mount on each missile pod's cover plate. The sensor and fire-control system is greatly improved, which allows Hail Buster to rapidly fire its weapons on several targets at once. In order to maximize usage of the Hail Buster, it utilise Striker Pack system. With the gun launcher and energy gun are mounted on Buster Striker backpack. Futhermore, the Mirage Colloid stealth system is integrated into Hail Buster. This allows it to sneak up on enemies and bombard them without being noticed.

Gun launcher/High-energy rifle
The main armament of the Hail Buster are a 350mm gun launcher and a 94mm high-energy rifle. Both weapons are mounted on the back of the suit when not used but are otherwise hand-carried. Each weapon can be used independently but if necessary, they both can be combined to form two different long-range beam weapons.

Machine Guns
The cap that hides the missle launchers has a multi-barrel machine gun on it. Once flipped up the gun sticks out. It bombards enemies with 90mm shells.

Missile launchers
Besides the two energy weapons and machine guns, the Hail Buster is equipped with two 220mm 6-barrel missile pods, one in each shoulder, allowing the suit to fire a rain of missiles upon enemies.

Trivia
The first published art of the Hail Buster had a yellow on blue color scheme similar to GAT-X131 Calamity Gundam. When its profile was released though, the colors scheme has been switched to red on black paint scheme similar to that of the GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam.