Beam Saber Basics - Gundams Most Iconic Weapon - Gundam Lore 

Seed MS essentially use welding torches and call them beam sabers.

This was already demonstrated in _Gundam: Thunderbolt,_ when the feds raided that last area where surviving Zeon troops were hiding. The only caveat to this feat, is that you have the intelligence gathered or your spy from the inside to guide you to the specific spot to ram the beam saber down, as demonstrated in _Thunderbolt._

I think pre-nano smtg smtg coating era in IBO would also be dominated by beam weapons. When Hashmal used its beam cannan, the coating was really put to its test. We know that it repels beams, but prolong exposure still heated up the part significantly. If Hashmal didn't stop the beam atk i think it would have actually melted through the ms. Meanwhile, the repelled beams fking obliterated the town behind the ms, showing that beam technology at its peak during the calamity war were most like just as effective as beams portrayed in other gundam universes. With that in mind, I think calling barbatos immune to beam weapons is likely untrue. Sure, a normal beam rifle will likely just bounce off, but a strong beam melee, or a super powered beam atk (beam magnum, hyper mega bazooka launcher or, if need be, the colony laser) might just do the trick.

I mean that’s just false, tell me there’s zero beams in that show. I know it’s very few, but you can’t

Heathen!, we all know that heat weapons are the best!

​@@aaronluisdelacruz4212 I've got a rocket propelled metal spike on my left arm and I'm not afraid to use it!

*stares in Beam Tonfa*

Laughs in a high mobility ms

**cackles in muramasa**

a romantic hot tub, at that

You can line a big zoggin' sword with beam sabers or make a big axe outta them

its a cool idea that could maybe work, in gundam thunderbolt lo tossed a beam saber that got shot by the enemies and made a makeshift flash bang I do like that idea of a beam saber being used as a improvised explosive, plenty of them have been tossed around and the zeta and impulse have thrown them to bounce shots off

@@slothcakes Since I brought it up I might as well give the name. Trailblazer. Crossover with Worm of all things. Pretty well written though and harkens back to the early concept art of Gundam when Mobile Suits were more power armor than mecha.

Thanks, there's so much i want to cover and talk about, but breaking it up in sections seems the most digestible. Thanks for the correction. While SRW makes great b-roll, there are so many of them it can get confusing lol

@@slothcakes thanks for the heart! ❤

The aqua gm saber handle has to come in contact with something to deploy the saber, while the nu gundam has an "invisible blade" which is just the I fields deployed without the minosky particals. when it detects something close to the I field, it deploys the saber. The aqua gm has to get much more close and can't turn it off while the nu does this to conserve power and has much more range.

@@slothcakes Even then I wouldn't call it stupid, it's an efficient solution for being underwater and likely not having that much time to do research into better options. Also, I'm pretty sure the ones in CCA aren't invisible, but instead they only properly generate at the point of impact. Everything I find online says that anyway.