Model number: MAN-03
Code name: Braw Bro
Unit type: prototype Newtype use mobile armor
Manufacturer: Flanagan Institute
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: one pilot and unknown number of operators, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall height 62.4 meters; overall length 60.2 meters
Weight: empty 1735.3 metric tons; max gross 2602.6 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 74000 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 1760000 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.68 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 156000 meters; modular separating body, 3 independent components; psycommu system
Fixed armaments: 2 x wire-guided 2-barrel mega particle gun, mounted on main body; 2 x wire-guided mega particle gun, mounted on main body

Technical and Historical Notes

With the discovery of "Newtypes" among the human population, the Principality of Zeon saw the potential of using these Newtypes - many of them possessing precognition, enhanced intuition, and lightning-fast reflexes - as tools in their war against the Earth Federation. The Flanagan Institute was charged with the study of Newtype candidates and the development of new weapons capable of making use of Newtypes' abilities. Their first weapon was the MAN-03 Braw Bro, a large spacegoing vehicle the size of a small battleship. Equipped with a psycommu ("psychic communicator") system to allow a Newtype pilot control of the unit with their thoughts alone, the Braw Bro was armed with four wire-guided, remotely-controlled mega particle gun units. Since Minovsky particle interference does not interfere in the transmission of Newtypes' brainwaves, the psycommu system allowed the pilot to conduct "all-range attacks," attacking a target from different directions with the remote-controlled weapons, regardless of distance or Minovsky interference.

As the Braw Bro was also the first mobile weapon built exclusively for Newtypes, its piloting and flight test data was of vast importance to the Flanagan Institute. Because of this, the Braw Bro itself could separate into three separate, independently-operated component blocks, ensuring a greater chance of survival of the test data if one of the components were destroyed. Helium-3 energy transport ship captain Challia Bull, who had exhibited traits of Newtype abilities, was transferred to the Flanagan Institute and selected as the Braw Bro's test pilot. However, the Braw Bro was destroyed when it fought against the Earth Federation Forces' RX-78-2 Gundam mobile suit - also piloted by a Newtype, Amuro Ray.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot(s): Challia Bull, Simus Al Bakharov
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: MS Generation; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space; Gundam Evolve
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara (Mobile Suit Gundam version)