Hadron Cannon

The Hadron Cannon (ハドロン砲) was a formerly experimental weapon system. Invented by Britannia, it was originally built into the Gawain as a testbed model. The weapon functions by combining multiple individual particle beams into a single beam of massive power. Hadron blasts are characteristically red and black, often surrounded by chains of electricity. Hadrons are particles made up of quarks, such as protons, neutrons, and mesons. Thus, it is probably safe to assume that the Hadron Cannon is thus some sort of particle cannon that fires Hadrons.

Originally, the cannon's beams were unable to converge, wasting much of the weapon's destructive power. When Prince Schneizel used the weapon to bombard Kamine Island, this flaw contributed to his enemies' survival. Upon the Black Knights' acquisition of the Gawain, this flaw was patched by Rakshata Chawla when she integrated her Gefjun Disturber system into the armament, using the Gefjun field to direct the Hadron blast.

This system was later salvaged from the wrecked Gawain and installed onto the Ikaruga. At the same time, Rakshata improved the weapon to fire at a larger range with a more powerful widespread beam, this version being called the "Scatter Hadron Cannon". Later models of Britannian units started implementing similar technology found in models such as the Mordred and the Gareth.

Other variations of the Hadron Cannon are the Hadron Blaster, used by the Lancelot Conquista, and the Stark Hadron Cannon. The Shinkirō and Percival were equipped with a different variant of Hadron Blaster, which fired spherical burst shots as opposed to a straight beam. It is powerful enough to pierce through a standard Blaze Luminous. The Mordred was equipped with the Stark Hadron Cannon, a clustering of four individual Hadron Cannons which fires a much more powerful beam than the original one. According to Nina Einstein, the Stark Hadron Cannon is capable of leveling a small mountain.