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Sometimes a full broadside cannon barrage isn't enough to bring down those pesky enemy ships. Or the enemy may be running away as fast as they can, and you don't have time to turn and give them the full fury of your weapons array. That's why you should remember to design your ships with a [[Wave Motion Gun|really big weapon]] pointed straight forward, to make running away very unattractive as the cannon rips into them from behind.
The core of the trope is that the
Commonly referred to as the "main gun" or some other such name to indicate how much more powerful it is compared to the other weapons.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'': the titular ship has the [[Trope Namer|original]] [[Wave Motion Gun]] mounted ''along the entire length of the ship'', with its muzzle built into the ''Yamato''{{'}}s bow (replacing -- and mimicking the look of -- the sculpted chrysanthemum which the original ship had had mounted there).
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' has the Macross Cannon, aka the Superdimensional Converging Beam Weapon.
** Averted in the sequels ''[[Macross 7]]'' and ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' where tranforming the ship into ''[[Humongous Mecha|Attacker Mode]]'' places the [[Wave Motion Gun|Macross Cannon]] in the "arms" of the ship ,allowing it to be aimed independently of the ship.
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* ''[[Troy Rising]]'': Assault Vectors have several spinal mounted heavy laser weapons that are clustered on the nose, each with their own independent power supply.
== [[Live
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': The [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Ori]] mother ships have a massive slow-firing weapon that frequently decimates any ship it hits. There are smaller pulsed weapons on the sides that can still take out a Ha'tak with a single triple-volley.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': The phaser lance from the alternate future version of the ''Enterprise''-D in "All Good Things".
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** Many of the smaller warships in the B5 setting are equipped this way, such as the White Stars, the smaller of the Centauri's two depicted warships, Earth's cruisers, and even the Star Furies.
* The bioships of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Species 8472]] in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' appear to be only able to fire directly forward. Then there's their [[Earthshattering Kaboom|planet-busting]] [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* In the series finale of [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''
* When ''[[MythBusters]]'' tested the spy car machine-gun myth, they first tested the machine gun as if it were "spinal mount". Adam was shocked at how effective it was.
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]'' (And it's PC implementation the ''[[Star Trek Starfleet Command]]'' series) has the Romulan Mauler, essentially a ship built around a massive beam weapon and it's supporting batteries/capacitors designed to break starbase or planetary defense shields in one shot. Not typically a stand alone vessel though - it depends on its sisterships to defend it while it get's into position.
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** Likewise, a never-used variant of the German Me-262 jet fighter replaced the 4 30mm cannon of the standard model with a single 57 mm reason. This was because it took 12+ well placed hits from the 30mm to bring down a B-17 or B-24, and the 262 was too fast to maintain a firing position. The 57mm required one hit almost anywhere on the plane.
* Similarly the German Ju-88P was a tank killer variant with a 75mm PaK gun.
* The [[wikipedia:Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10 Thunderbolt II]] is [https://web.archive.org/web/20141013111356/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/A-10_Cross_Section.jpg built around] [[Gatling Good|a massive 30MM Gatling gun]].
* The approach taken by most WWII "tank destroyers" and assault guns was to mount a single larger fixed-forward gun than similar-sized vehicles with a turret gun.
* Scaling down the concept to a giant shotgun mounted on a rowboat gets you the "punt gun", which was used for duck hunting in the 1800s. To a lesser extreme, gunboats with powerful chaser guns fixed in the bow were a staple of coastal defense in the days of [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]. Individual gunboats were not at all survivable, but they could be built and deployed en-masse, with the added advantages of shallow drafts, fiendish maneuverability in the confines of a harbour no matter which direction the wind is blowing, and a disproportionately heavy armament for their small size.
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