"The BFG, Baby!" GB Idea

[dy031101]

The Rock, when asked about not getting to star in the "First-person View" segment of the movie Doom, said this: "if I had to pick between getting the first-person shooting and the BFG...... the BFG, buddy!"

Let's face it, the BFG (Bio-Force Gun, Big Friggin' Gun..... whatever term works for the occasion) is a visual metaphor for power.  When you are about to see a situation getting escalated, few things could reinforce the resolve that you'll be the one who finishes it better than being backed by or outright wielding a big gun.  Even at this day and age, when guided missiles reign dominant in warfares, big guns are still one of the epitomes of cool: I mean, can you honestly say that GAU-8 gatling cannon on the A-10 doesn't leave you any impression at all?  

So here comes the central spirit of this GB idea- the BFG!  Perhaps take a historical vehicle (land, sea, air) and put on it the biggest gun(s) it is ever proposed to carry?  Or design, say, a fighter aircraft that has an internal gun suite of calibres greater than 30mm or even energy-based weapons?

Whatever the case, the platform should have one set of gun armament(s)- something that needs to be fired out of a barrel (this definition covers guided shells and rocket-assisted shells)- that is either the outright most powerful weapon it carries or at least disproportionately powerful for a carrier of the platform's class (like putting a NS-45 cannon on a modern-day jet fighter).

Enclosed are pictures of Ixion from Raiden Fighters Jet video game...... an advanced-looking fictional aircraft that has a pair of seemingly big cannons.  Just an example.

(But actually I have always wanted to visualize a similarly-advanced-looking heavy jet fighter armed with a manually-loading artillery of at least 50mm class, just to take things to the extreme.  )

And please don't feel limited to aircraft.  It just so happens that the examples I invoked are aircraft, but land-based vehicles (like Panther Ausf. F with 88mm-gun Schmalturm turret), naval vessels (Scharnhorst class battleships re-armed with twin 38cm-gun turrets, for example), and even an individual brandishing personal artillery in sync with the spirit of the BFG, real-life-based or fictional, are more than welcomed.

EDIT: Tried to phrase the central spirit in one sentence.

[Jschmus]

I could throw together my Bandai Swordfish for this build.  It's got a BFG.

[dy031101]

Real-life tanks with BFGs: the Soviet Object 292 armed with a 152mm gun and the much-earlier American T30 with a 155mm gun.

[dy031101]

A fictitous one in the picture, but from some descriptions of M51 Sherman I read that fitting a muzzle brake helps putting a BFG into a tank......

[anthonyp]

Macross fighters come to mind with their gunpod/rifle.  You could branch into the destroids/Mechs from the series (or Battletech) for BFG's.

And I have very, very fond memories of the BFG in Doom...