Gorgon

"The GORGON is a heavy automatic machinegun. The large clip allows it to provide suppressing fire and sustain a high damage rate over a long period of time."

- In-Game Description

The Gorgon is a powerful primary gun with a rapid fire rate and a huge clip, used by Lieutenant Lech Kril, General Sargas Ruk and the rest of Grineer Heavy Gunners. It has a small spool-up period during which it fires slowly.

Characteristics
Advantages
 * High damage per second once fully spooled.
 * High sustainable rate of fire.
 * Largest magazine size of all rifles along with the Supra.
 * Most effective versus enemy clusters.

Disadvantages
 * No polarity slots.
 * Requires a short period of time to reach optimal firing rate.
 * Inefficient beyond medium range.
 * Profuse ammo consumption.
 * Slow reload speed.

Acquisition
The Gorgon can be purchased for 225 and the blueprint for  25,000 upon reaching Mastery Rank 3. The method of using credits to purchase this weapon was removed as of update 7.11. Since Update 8 you can gain the blueprint as a login reward without having reached rank 3.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * The Gorgon is exceptionally useful to fight the Jackal, General Sargas Ruk, Councilor Vay Hek or any other enemy that requires sustained damage. Although you should just shoot down the legs and reload while the Jackal is on the ground. Sustained fire wastes bullets when the boss is transitioning.
 * Critical hit chance is low, it's better to not use mods Point Strike and Vital Sense with the Gorgon.
 * After the spool up time, it is possible to use the Gorgon in quick short bursts, allowing you to keep up the high rate of fire, but with less recoil and less bullets wasted, making the Gorgon usable at medium to medium long ranges.
 * You can retain the 'charge' of the fire rate by sprinting. This way the weapon stops shooting but as long as you keep mouse 1 held down, the fire rate will not reset and the weapon will resume fast firing once you stop sprinting.
 * Use the Rifle Ammo Mutation mod to compensate for lost ammo due to the weapons high rate of consuming ammunition on full spool.

Trivia

 * In Greek mythology, there are three Gorgons (Γοργών); Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. Their hair was made of living snakes, and anyone who would look at one of these three sisters would become stone.
 * The word Gorgon (Γοργώ) is derived from the Greek word "gorgós," meaning "dreadful."
 * The box on the right side of the trigger is the magazine, as seen in the new reload animations from recent hotfixes.