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Revision as of 23:58, 10 April 2013
The GAT-X103 Buster is a prototype long-range artillery mobile suit, the unit is featured in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
Designed as a long-range artillery mobile suit, the Buster's armament consists solely of long range weapons, including a gun launcher, a high-energy rifle and two missile pods. One weakness of the suit lies in its complete lack of any close combat weaponry. This fact is later corrected with the mass production model, the GAT/A-01E2 Buster Dagger.
Like the other X100 series G prototypes (GAT-X102 Duel and GAT-X105 Strike), the Buster is based on an agile, non-transforming frame system (it is in fact based mostly on an application of the Duel's frame).
Armaments
- 350mm Gun Launcher
- Carried in Buster's right hand it is the front weapon in the Anti-Armor Shotgun combination.A projectile weapon akin to a railgun or linear gun, which uses electromagnetic forces rather than gunpowder to launch its projectiles. In addition to solid shells, the gun-launcher can also fire specialized munitions such as armor-piercing and high explosive rounds.
- 94mm High-energy Rifle
- Carried in Buster's left hand it is the front weapon in the Hyper Impulse Long Range Sniper Rifle combination.
- 220mm 6-barrel Missile Pod
- The 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.
- Anti-Armor Shotgun
- When the Beam Rifle and Gun Launcher combine, with the Gunlauncher on the front, it forms a very powerful shell-firing Anti-Armor Shotgun. It appears to have two modes of firing; a rapid-firing barrage that condenses the firing more into a stream, and a wide scatter shot that spreads greatly. It appears that about four or five shells fired from the Anti-Armor Shotgun is enough to destroy some battleships.
- Hyper Impulse Long-Range Sniper Rifle
- When the Beam Rifle and Gun Launcher combine, with the Beam Rifle on the front, it can form a Long-Range Sniper Rifle. This Beam Cannon type weapon has a very high energy output, firing larger beams, and capable of penetrating several targets, as well as battleships, making it the strongest weapon in the Buster Gundam's arsenal. As the name implies, it also feaures sniping capabilities, for very long-range firing capabilities, and zoom-in targeting.
System Features
- As with all of the G Project mobile suits, the GAT-X103 Buster is equipped with phase shift armor. When activated the Buster's color is changed from a light grey to a beige scheme with a bit of green and orange mixed in. Phase Shift armor, when activated, renders the Buster immune to physical attacks such as bullets, the GINN sword, or against missiles. However Phase Shift armor continually drains the battery of energy, shortening the mobile suit's combat endurance. Also the Phase Shift armor draws on even more energy each time it is struck.
History
The Buster is one of the prototype mobile suits developed by the Earth Alliance during the Bloody Valentine War under G Project, to counter ZAFTs own mass production mobile suits. Together with the four other machines the Buster is stored secretly on the Orb Union controlled independent colony Heliopolis.
Buster was stolen by ZAFT pilot Dearka Elsman on Cosmic Era January 25, 71, and was used by him throughout the rest of the war. Dearka frequently dueled with TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero/FX-550 Skygrasper pilot Mu La Flaga, neither pilot able to gain a competitive advantage over the other, La Flaga's greater experience and skill balanced by Elsman's elite reflexes and superior machine. Elsman was shot down and captured, his mobile suit severely damaged, by the crew of the Archangel in June 71, spent approximately a month in Archangel's brig and subsequently joined the Clyne Faction to bring about the end of the Bloody Valentine War. On the last day of the war, Dearka's mobile suit was severely damaged by the ZGMF-X13A Providence.
The Earth Alliance later developed two new versions of the Buster: one of them was the mass produced GAT/A-01E2 Buster Dagger, which combined the frame of a GAT-01A1 105 Dagger with the Buster's weaponry. The other suit was another Buster unit upgraded into the GAT-X103AP Verde Buster, which features more and advanced weaponry compared to the original suit.
Although not really based upon the Buster, the artillery support paradigm which the suit was designed around would be developed into a heavy long-range mobile suit, the GAT-X131 Calamity.
Variants
Picture Gallery
Fan Art
References
External Links
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