The chin pod looks a lot like a FLIR to me... Probably it's modular and can be swapped on the fly with a 30mm chaingun/rocket pod/racoon launcher according to your spec.
Love malorn ideas, but i'd prefer a dedicated gunship and a strafe bomber being separate vehicles... Old liberator was perfect as it was in concept, in my opinion, it just needed the tailgun and the bombing bay being operated by the same person (and that just because it was a pain in the ass finding a tailgunner, when my usual buddies wasn't online i made it my personal mission to tailgun for everyone i could just out of empathy
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