I wasn't expecting to see THIS one come back to life!
Yeeeah, the Gyrfalcon is... I love most of the look to it. The big wings, the talon-ed feet, the raptor-head, it's all very pleasing from an 'of COURSE the Falcons would do something like this' perspective. It all just fits. And then the arms are... absurd. The long barrels on the Rifleman, Jagermech, etc. make some sense- an autocannon probably needs to have some length to the barrels, so that's fine. The lasers here though... the Zeus managed to make a large laser into a mere blister on the side of its torso, but this needs a pair of howitzer barrels to make it all work? There was no need for those guns to be that big- the Mech literally doesn't work as it stands, the barrels would constantly be dragging their tips in the dirt or clanking off the sides of obstacles. Any change that drops that lunacy for a sane solution is a positive one. (And lest I come across salty about the art, that was only following the path already laid out by the DA miniature- no issue there.
As to the antiaircraft role... god yes. Absolutely. Sing it from the rooftops. LB-2Xs backed by large lasers, AND the ability to rapidly move to positions with good arcs of fire (or get out of trouble if those fighters get pissy)? Is there a BETTER choice for the job? It's got a pretty thin armor shell at the end of the day, so it's not a frontline fighter the way the Jade Hawk is, so it's going to be hanging back in the rear lines to provide its sniper work anyway- easy then to flip those absurd-looking guns skyward to get rid of a pesky Shilone. Fantastic Mech in that regard,don't leave home without them.