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(click here to learn more)| Defense Cannons | |
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 Pre-launch artwork of a base with these cannons. | |
| Weapon in Just Cause 4 | |
| Type | Automated turret: Stationary heavy artillery |
| Usage | Automated |
| Maximum ammunition in the weapon | Infinite |
| To unlock | Not available at the supply drop |
| List of owners | Black Hand Army of Chaos |
The Defense Cannon is a weapon in Just Cause 4.
Description[]
It is obviously a type of artillery. It is by far the largest type of automated gun turret, with an extremely long barrel. It is safe to assume it has an massive caliber as well, due to the enormous barrel diameter of about ~700-900 milimeters. It looks more like a normal cannon, but it is speculated to function as a railgun, which means that it uses electromagnets to propel a metal projectile. Weapons of this type should be great as long-range artillery, but in-game they have as little rage as the SAMs in Solís.
Performance[]
In-game, these turrets are completely invulnerable to damage and cannot be grappled. Thankfully, these cannons are easy to avoid due to their large size and slow movement. These massive guns are powerful enough to destroy anything and everything destructible in usually one, but at most two to three hits. They can destroy any tank in the game with one hit or destroy a very large and heavily armored vehicle such as the Spearhead Transport in only one, two or at the very most three hits. Apart from the Spearhead Transport, basically no destructible object can survive a direct hit from these guns. Normally they are incapable of hitting Rico when he's moving, however if the player should stay at the same place (or small area) in a cannons field of view, they can almost kill Rico in just one hit. The damage output is far greater than Rico's HP, but the his plot armor allows him to survive any single source of damage, except falling from really high up.
In region strikes at bases where these cannons are, these cannons can prove fairly dangerous until the mission is over or at a certain point in the mission where they are deactivated.
The turrets are unable to hit anything too close to them, so it's safe to stand nearby.
When the cannon is about to fire, the barrel of the cannon will have a red glow and it will make an humming charge-up sound. Because of this, it is speculated to be a railgun.
There is also a sticker/plate on the back of the base of the cannon which says it uses radioactive material, although it is not known which element of it involves radioactive materials specifically. Or even if the gun mechanisms require this, or if the fired munitions are radioactive.
Using the AR lens on the cannon will yield a box with information stating:
"DEFENSE CANNON"
"Indestructible."
Although not seen in the game, according to general Rojas, the "override" of the cannons at Prospero Aeroespacial can be "remotely enabled". This suggests the guns can be manually directed to fire at other targets, and in some cases, against whatever they are protecting.
Locations[]
- Base Aérea Yanacagua.
- Estación Atalaya.
- Illapa.
- One of these on the main tower is featured in the mission Operation Illapa, where the player has to avoid getting hit by it.
- The three Nodo Defensivo towers around Illapa each have 3.
- Prospero Aeroespacial.
- Prospero Balística.
- Prospero Torretas.
Trivia[]
- After taking over certain bases for the Army of Chaos, the turrets will attack Black Hand units.
- While this cannon should certainly kill Rico in one successful hit (it can destroy targets much stronger than Rico), Rico absorbs only a fraction of the damage (and ignores the rest of it), just enough so that the player can stay alive, albeit barely.
- It is speculated these artillery guns are always meant to be static emplacements, since they are too large to transport in an intact state and must be disassembled beforehand.
- The Defense Cannons at Nodo Defensivo Uno, Dos and Tres are much stronger, firing long bursts with a short delay in-between. These particularly powerful cannons (in combination with a lighting-blizzard hybrid storm) are designed to prevent the player from entering Illapa and the surrounding area before Operation Illapa.
- About the radiation symbol: There have been multiple types of real large-caliber artillery guns that were designed to fire tactical nuclear bombs, but there is no indication of the fired munitions in the game being of that type.