Neutron assault rifle

My equilibrium... destabilized! RWAAAAH!

The Neutron Assault Rifle distorts the equilibrium of its target by blasting it with sonic booms. Once disoriented, the attacker can close in with a melee attack.

Fiction

Prime Battle Bios

Soundwave uses his Neutron Assault Rifle in combination with his Energon War Axe. Soundwave's Battle Bio

Games

War for Cybertron

Neutron Assault Rifles were one of the most common weapons in use during the Great War. They were well-balanced and used a large clip of ammunition with a decent amount of punch behind its unassuming frame. They were toted by both Scientist and Soldier classes. War for Cybertron

• The rifle has the following in-game stats:
  • Damage: 5
  • Range: 5
  • Accuracy: 5
  • Rate of Fire: 8
• Max Load: 244 Rounds
• Per Mag: 32 Rounds

Fall of Cybertron

The perfect weapon for taking out Jimmy Neutron.

Reliable automatic rifle fires hyper-piercing, heated neutrons at 600 rounds per minute.In-game description

They were still in use during the latter days of the war in the lead-up to the launch of the Ark. A newer design was introduced around this time, sporting a whopping six barrels as opposed to the single barrel on the old model. Fall of Cybertron

• This weapon has the following base in-game stats:
  • Damage: 4
  • Range: 5
  • Accuracy: 5
  • Rate of Fire: 8
• This weapon can be modified in multiplayer/escalation with the following upgrades:
  • Amplifier Pak - Increases the amount of reserve ammo
  • Cyber Optics - Increases weapon accuracy
  • Quantum Stabilizer - Completely eliminates recoil
  • P.O.K.E Beta - Experimental melee energy blade that one hit kills enemies

Toys

Generations

• Starscream (Deluxe Class, 2012)

Part of the third wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Fall of Cybertron Starscream comes with two spinning, triple-barreled "assault cannons" which can combine to form a larger hand-held weapon that is geared to spin its two triple-barrels together, and resembles the Neutron assault rifle from Fall of Cybertron. Each of the weapon halves features two 5mm posts, as well as a peg-hole on their hollow sides, while the combined form features another peg-hole at the top, but makes the peg-holes on the hollow sides inaccessible.

In an undocumented feature, Starscream's tail-fin is attached via a 5mm post on its underside, and can be detached to reveal three additional peg-holes, with two of these peg-holes being just the right distance to accommodate the two pegs found on the underside of the combined assault cannons/rifle, with the tail-fin pegging on the rifle's top peg-hole. This allows the weapon to mount on top of the vehicle mode, and store on his back in robot mode.

• Skywarp (May 25, 2013)

Available in the TakaraTomy Generations line, Fall of Cybertron Skywarp is a redeco of Fall of Cybertron Starscream. He still comes with the cannons/Neutron assault rifle, this time in purple.

• Thundercracker (Deluxe Class, 2013)

Part of the sixth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Thrilling 30 Thundercracker is a redeco of Generations: Fall of Cybertron Starscream. He still comes with the cannons/Neutron assault rifle, this time in blue.

Despite using a mold and deco matching Thundercracker's appearance in War for Cybertron, this toy technically represents G1 Thundercracker, thanks to his IDW pack-in fiction (a copy of Spotlight: Thundercracker). Consequently, the toy is listed in the former's page as a repurposing.

• Metroplex (Titan Class, 2013)
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A pair of small, non-transforming figures of Thundercracker in both in robot and vehicle modes were included with an exclusive version of Metroplex at San Diego Comic-Con 2013. They're based on the sculpt of the Generations Deluxe figure, and thus are depicted with the Neutron Assault Rife. Both figures are cast entirely in purple plastic, not unlike the Decoy figures.

• Metroplex (Titan Class, 2013)
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Another version of Metroplex, this one available at Anime-Comic-Game Hong Kong, included redecos of the San Diego Comic Con figures of Thundercracker's robot and vehicle forms, this time in silver.

• Skywarp (Deluxe Class, 2014)

Part of the eighth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Thrilling 30 Skywarp is another redeco of Generations: Fall of Cybertron Starscream which still includes with the cannons/Neutron assault rifle, now cast in purple and gray plastic.

• Decepticon Rebel Infiltrator Starscream (2014)

Studio Series

• Gamer Edition Barricade (Deluxe, 2023)

Part of the twentieth wave of Studio Series Deluxe Class toys, "Gamer Edition Barricade" comes with a blaster accessory based off of the Neutron assault rifle from War for Cybertron. It can swap out with the removable right arms of Barricade and other figures from the Gamer Edition series, emulating the way characters' arms in-game transformed into their weapons.

• Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier (Deluxe Class, 2024)
• Gamer Edition Thundercracker (Voyager Class, 2025)