A revolutionary weapon for it’s time, the beam rifle is the primary weapon used by the Gundam. Making use of the Federations E-cap (or “energy capacitor”) technology, the rifle uses charged concentrations of Minovsky particles as ammunition. This gives the beam rifle firepower equivalent to that of a battleship’s beam cannons. As the Minovsky particles […]
A revolutionary weapon for it’s time, the beam rifle is the primary weapon used by the Gundam. Making use of the Federations E-cap (or “energy capacitor”) technology, the rifle uses charged concentrations of Minovsky particles as ammunition. This gives the beam rifle firepower equivalent to that of a battleship’s beam cannons. As the Minovsky particles destroy matter on a molecular scale, the beam rifle can penetrate even the thickest armor and destroy its target with a single shot. One weak point of the rifle was its energy limits. The rifle could only be fired a certain number of times before depleting its energy and becoming useless.
