Mount
Operate
Operate verb - To control the mechanical operation of.
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It was designed as a "light battlecruiser," with very light armor, shallow draft, and a very big gun on a single mount, to operate in shallow waters.
Source: Military Mashup Machine -
As long as the skill is highly ranked enough, a holder can simply grab the controls of any vehicle or mount and instantly know how to operate it as if they had been for years.
Source: Visual Novel / Fate/stay night -
There's also Holland's late-series mount, the TB-303 Devilfish, which is ridiculously powerful and has enough firepower to wipe out multiple capital ships, but requires the pilot to take life-threatening drugs to operate it... Aside from those, the rest of the powerful LFO's are all Ace Customs.
Source: Super Prototype
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