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A mecha I drew about 5 years ago.

For humanoid shaped mechas, all the sensors tend to be clustered in the head, as is for a human.
That means one shot to the face knocks out all perception of the outside world for the pilot inside.
Although Gundam and Full Metal Panic mechas tend to have a last-resort Vulcan cannons located in the head, I've always wondered about this since ... wouldn't the noise and light of firing off rounds right by the sensors mask everything else rendering the mecha deaf and blind whenever it's fired?

Since the head isn't really useful for anything else, wouldn't it make the mecha much more resilient and increase redundancy if sensors were dispersed all over the mecha's chassis?

Such was the thought behind this sketch.

And yes, I screwed up the direction of the crotch segment.

Description
A mecha I drew about 5 years ago.

For humanoid shaped mechas, all the sensors tend to be clustered in the head, as is for a human.
That means one shot to the face knocks out all perception of the outside world for the pilot inside.
Although Gundam and Full Metal Panic mechas tend to have a last-resort Vulcan cannons located in the head, I've always wondered about this since ... wouldn't the noise and light of firing off rounds right by the sensors mask everything else rendering the mecha deaf and blind whenever it's fired?

Since the head isn't really useful for anything else, wouldn't it make the mecha much more resilient and increase redundancy if sensors were dispersed all over the mecha's chassis?

Such was the thought behind this sketch.

And yes, I screwed up the direction of the crotch segment.