Guns

The Gunner or Hawkgunner is the unofficial nickname given to James Mitchell, a shadowy character of American nationality featured in the upcoming Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. The released teaser shows him manning one of the M134 Miniguns of an MH-60L Blackhawk in a South-Eastern African battlezone, hence his nickname. His most prominent feature is the skull mask he wears underneath his flight helmet.

In the E3 trailer, he is seen laying on a brancard with heavy burns all over his body. This is a result of the new superweapon.

Hawkgunner's twitter page:
James Mitchell has a twitter page which can be found here: http://twitter.com/hawkgunner.
 * "Jack or Jim they asked last night at a get together. Pfttttt…. Please, I am from Kentucky. Me and Jim go waaaaaay back." 5:37 PM Sep 8th via web
 * "Peek-a-boo. This what a hawk gunner does when it’s about to get heated. But today we are just goofin on a casual excursion in the field. I wouldn't be tweetn' of course if we were truly mixing it up. ;)" 2:49 PM Aug 26th via Twitpic
 * "Long day today…testing some patterns, running some bs recon. These birds can do this in any weather just happens to be dry here." 2:45 PM Aug 26th via Twitpic
 * "Okay… this could get me in trouble but I am going to send some pics of us doing some exercises. Stay tuned…" 10:06 AM Aug 23rd via web
 * "Great day today. Everyone here is cool, lots of personalities and my crew is top notch. None better." 10:47 AM Aug 19th via web
 * "We just arrived on the s-e tip of Africa. Most of the guys are still unpacking their gear I’m tweeting as they unload our birds." 10:10 AM Aug 11th via web
 * "New comm. device is sweet. 6 megapixel camera, lots of apps and now I can tweet to the fam and friends back home. This could get fun…." 2:26 PM Aug 9th via web.
 * "tango whiskey echo echo tango ;)" 11:05 AM Jun 24th via web.
 * "This one's is a game-changer. You ain't seen nothing yet!" Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Announcement Trailer.

Trivia

 * James Mitchell is often compared to Simon 'Ghost' Riley of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Due to both of them having a skull imprinted to their head gear.
 * James Mitchell likes Jim Beam.