Shoulder-mounted armament

Shoulder-mounted armaments were a diverse style of weapon configurations utilizing shoulder and often back attachments that fired some form of over-the-shoulder weaponry intended to free the hands of the user. These armaments were generally autonomous, and sometimes had built-in blaster technology, while others allowed for the attachment and removal of external blaster pistols. The projectile types of these blasters could vary widely, with some firing lasers while others could even launch micro-missiles.

The Parwan bounty hunter Derrown, also known as "the Exterminator," sported a shoulder-mounted blaster between 20 and 19 BBY. Mercenary Migs Mayfeld used a pseudocybernetic automated weapon mounting armor attachment equipped with a DT-12 heavy blaster pistol prior to and during the Bothan-Five incident in 9 ABY. That same year, two participants in the Hunters of the Outer Rim utilized shoulder-mounted weaponry as part of their kits. Human Hunter Imara Vex wore a shoulder-mounted micro-missile launcher, while the KX-series security droid K-A0S was equipped with a back-mounted SE-14r light repeating blaster.

Text and facts from the “Shoulder-mounted armament” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.