GF13-013NR Bolt Gundam is Neo Russia's entry in the 13th Gundam Fight, it is featured in the anime series Mobile Fighter G Gundam. The unit is piloted by Argo Gulskii.. Click the gundam wiki logo image on the right for more information.
Unlike the other mobile fighters in the Gundam Fight, the Bolt Gundam is powered by a powerful "Victor Engine", which makes it the strongest mobile fighter in terms of raw strength. It complements its power with exceptionally strong armor that can shrug off most ordinary attacks. This combination of strength and durability suits Argo's fighting style, which relies heavily on enduring enemy blows to put him in a position to deliver overwhelmingly powerful counterattacks. Argo frequently uses the Bolt Gundam's durability to get face-to-face with his foes, allowing him to use his Gundam's superior strength to lift, crush, and throw his opponent.
The primary weapon of the Bolt Gundam is the Graviton Hammer, a flail-type weapon that consists of a dense spherical hammer that is manipulated via a beam chain. The weapon can be used in a variety of methods for both offense and defense and increases the Bolt Gundam's reach in melee combat, allowing it to utilize its physical strength at the maximum possible range. When not in use, the hammer portion is stored in the Gundam's left shoulder, while the beam emitter is stored in a recharge rack on its hip.
As with most melee-focused mobile fighters, the Bolt Gundam lacks a ranged weapon outside of the standard vulcan guns on its head.
With the plethora of badly, somewhat improbable gundam designs in the G series it is nice to see that they at least focused to make a few better designed mobile fighter units, Bolt Gundam is I think one of those better looking Gundams in the series. Bolt Gundam is quite a bulky piece of gundam material, and the pilot Argo, he looks the part really well. The head design is great, based on the Russian Ushanka hats which apparently looks perfect to be translated into mech design, I like it better without the V fins though, but it wouldn't be a Gundam without it. The torso design is good as well, I'm not sure where in Russia did the designers inspired the body design of Bolt with, but it sure looks good. The shoulders, fore arms, legs and feet have extra padded armor which adds to the bulk... the extra details on the armor implements are also great, especially the foot guards. The color theme is just alright for me; dark blue, yellow and white just makes it a good complementary gundam to the other four main gundams.
