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Originally Posted by monstert
Actually the G-Bits have limited armaments. The ones for Leopard has 1 arm gatling, the one for Airmaster has 2 buster rifles, and the one for X has 1 beam saber and the satellite cannon.
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Huh... the X ones also have 1 Buster Rifle...
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The only possible advantage I can see for the G-Bits are their longer operative time but that won't matter much if the battle ends in a short enough time. Another thing about the size difference is that the G-Bits can't maneuver as much with the same number of Bits in a specified amount of space. And if what you say is true about a pilot being less effective in his own mobile suit, then that just gives more chance of an opening to get a shot at the controlling mobile suit.
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Gundam X episode 29 clearly showed that G-Bits have more agility than usual Bits. Garrod and Janmil who could easily shot down bits by that point couldn't even get one hit on those things. In fact, only Witz hit them once, and that was after Garrod baited them away from him.
Even though the G-Bits are bigger, they also have multiple thrusters, not just a single one, and each one of those thrusters are better than the ones of a Bit because of their size.
The only real advantage of the funnels are stealth attacks, like the ones shown in Mobile suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam. Most pilots aren't even able to notice the funnel (the animation even makes them invisible to show that). Gundam X also briefly showed that during the Karis' arc, but the animation didn't actually make them invisible there, we just got to see Garrod's comments when he said that he could finally see them.