Code name: Bigro
Unit type: mass production space combat mobile armor
Manufacturer: MIP Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall length 45.5 meters; overall height 26.3 meters
Weight: empty 125.5 metric tons; max gross 229.8 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 17800 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 136100 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.59 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 111000 meters; Minovsky particle scattering system for ECM (electronic countermeasures)
Fixed armaments: large mega particle cannon, mounted in main body; 2 x 4-tube missile launcher, 3 round magazine per tube, mounted on main body
Featured series: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
Webmaster's notes: With mobile suits becoming more meant to fight each other than to duel enemy battle ships, that role became open to MIP company's mobile armors. one of the few space use use mobile armors to be mass produced in the One Year War, the Bigro was an excellent weapon. Its primary armament was a large mega particle cannon that could do terrible damage to the Salamis and Magellan class ships of the Earth Federation. Just as significant, the MA-05 could broadcast Minovsky Particles, making it impossible for enemy ships to take it out of action with guided missiles. In this way, the Bigro was essentially a small ship with a very powerful weapon, capable of moving fast enough to make hitting it difficult inside an I-field. Lacking rear or side guns, the Bigro was dependent upon MS support to keep enemy fighters and mobile suits off it, though it could fire off up to 24 missiles in quick succesion against smaller attackers to its bow, as well as assault them with its heavy clawed arms. Overall, in significant numbers the Bigro was an excellent weapon, but due to cost and time restraints, not many were produced before the war ended.
