Longbow Cannon Truck

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Longbow Cannon Truck
Vehicle in Just Cause 4
Type	Self-propelled artillery
Weapons	Cannon
List of owners	Black Hand Army of Chaos Demons
Top speed (km/h)	Unknown
Top speed (mph)	Unknown

The Longbow Cannon Truck is a vehicle in Just Cause 4.

Appearance

It's a large 6x6 military truck with a cannon turret on the back. The cannon is thick enough (something like 500mm) to resemble a battleship gun, but is only as short as the truck.

Strangely, the gun has a thicker section in the middle. This is something that only armored vehicles with a closed crew compartment can benefit from. See the trivia section below for more details. Also strangely, there's a small square shield around the barrel, near the breech. These things indicate that in-universe the gun was likely originally designed for a closed turret.

The cabin resembles the Oshkosh HEMTT.

It is very similar to the Próspero Hauler, but has 6 bigger wheels and is taller.

The truck and its gun also resemble some large 6x6 cranes.

Performance

The vehicle is roughly similar to the Hauler, but is a bit less sluggish.

It comes with 300 shells for the large cannon. The player can control the turret from the driver's seat.

While the large cannon is very powerful, the truck itself is very weak, at times blowing up from only small arms fire.

Locations

• At some Black Hand bases:
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• Sometimes at the front.
• In a few missions. Need specifying.
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• Can be unlocked for the supply drop after completing Operation Sandstinger.
• Sometimes converted to serve the Demonic threat in Los Demonios.

Trivia

• The vehicle is named after an old-timy english weapon.
• The cannon comes with two piston arms that juts out from the entire weapon. These are intended for when the cannon is completely aiming up.
• The design of the truck is makes it a self propelled artillery, but the cannon behaves similarly to most tanks in the game. In fact in heat, if Rico hijacks a Black Hand version of this vehicle, the Black Hand will yelling over the intercom that the target (Rico) has a tank.
  • This might be some kind of major development oversight, because tanks and truck mounted artillery are two very different things.
  • These types of trucks should have some kind of support legs on the sides or the back in order to use the gun without suffering the recoil effect produced by the main gun. Similarly to the Tuk-Tuk Boom Boom, the gun should send this vehicle flying, but the games don't have any recoil physics.
• This is the only self-propelled artillery in the Just Cause game series.
• See also: Artillery.
• On a tank, the thicker section of the barrel contains an additional empty space that allows air pressure and hot explosion gases to partly ventilate the barrel during the moment of firing. The main purpose is to create a draft inside the barrel that would ventilate the barrel of the poisonous explosion gases. These gases would otherwise end up inside the turret when the next shot is being loaded. This type of sections have been added to tanks as of the mid 1940s. By modern times all tanks have them.

Gallery

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The gun truck resembles some crane trucks.