MA-05 Bigro

Model number: MA-05
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

In the years building up to the One Year War, several companies take part in a new conceptual weapons competition. MIP Company's entry to the competition is the experimental MIP-X1 mobile armor; however, MIP loses out to Zeonic Company's more agile and versatile mobile suit concept. As the One Year War opens and Zeon begins taking a serious second look at the mobile armor concept, the MIP-X1 is taken back to the drawing board and remodeled into the mobile armor MA-05 Bigro. Mounting a pair of large claw-laden arms for limited AMBAC (Active Mass Balance AutoControl) ability, the Bigro incorporates the same monoeye sensor system used on all Zeon military mobile suits. Driven by a pair of large nuclear rocket engines, mounting a large mega particle gun and a pair of 4-tube missile launchers, and equipped with a Minovsky particle scattering system to make it difficult to detect with sensors, the Bigro is well-proven as a high-speed anti-warship unit. However, only a handful of the costly Bigros are produced during the war, including two variants: the MA-05R Big Ruf and MA-05Ad Big Rang.

Pilot: Tokwan
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space; Gundam Evolve
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

Mega particle cannon