Gamma

Laser Battery Gamma is the true 9th stage boss in Carrier Air Wing.

Appearance
Gamma is a large, wall turret. It has a sandy brown colour scheme and some minor silver highlights. It has rail-like devices on the top and bottom, and a tube-like center. It possesses silver laser cannons on the top and bottom of the center (which can rotate around), and a large cannon in the very middle, adorned with smaller silver guns. There is a heart-shaped device of some sort at the very back of the cannon, and once the central cannon is destroyed, there is revealed to be small guns underneath.

Weaponry
Gamma can use its laser cannons to shoot out plasma shots similar to the ones fired by Blackjack Kai, and the 2nd forms of Karl-Gerat and Buran Orbit from the central cannon, and the small silver turrets can fire regular shots. The large silver guns can rotate to fire missiles or lasers (Depending on the positions).

Battle
Gamma is revealed to be the true boss of stage 9, deployed to stop the player from destroying Rabu's secret base.

Gamma will rotate its silver cannons to fire missiles or lasers. The cannons can be destroyed every time the part rotates. There are 20 cannons in total (counting the ones on top and bottom). Once all the cannons on the top/bottom are destroyed, the part will blow up. It mainly attacks using the central cannon, and it must be destroyed to reveal Gamma's weak point. The weak point is the heart-like object on Gamma's back. Once the heart is destroyed, Gamma blows up (Presumably destroying Rabu's secret base alongside it).

However, even with the defeat of Gamma and the destruction of the secret base, Rabu reveals the final weapon, and launches it into space, prompting the pilots to chase it down and destroy it.

Trivia

 * Gamma is named after the Roman letter "Gamma".
 * Gamma's design highly resembles the Missile Sunder from the video game Bleed 2.