AMA-953 BABI

Model number: AMA-953
Code name: BABI
Unit type: mass production transformable aerial combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Operator: ZAFT
First deployment: C.E. 73
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 19.84 meters (mobile suit mode)
Weight: max gross weight 65.75 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: MGX-2237 “Ardor” multi-phase beam cannon, mounted in torso, operable only in mobile suit mode; 2 x QFJ91 12-barrel missile launcher, mounted underneath wings, operable only in mobile armor mode; 4 x MMI-GAU2436 22.5mm 4-barrel machine guns, mounted on wings, operable only in mobile armor mode
Optional hand armaments: MA-M343 beam rifle; MMI-M182 air gunlauncher

In late C.E. 73, ZAFT began replacing the aging aerial combat mobile suit AMF-101 DINN with the newer, transformable AMA-953 BABI. The transforming BABI was more heavily armed than the DINN, featuring weapons such as a chest-mounted beam cannon, missile launchers, machine guns, a beam rifle and an air gunlauncher. Soon after the BABI was rolled out, it was deployed in areas such as Berlin during ZAFT’s attempt to destroy the monstrous GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam. The BABI was also used in high numbers during Operation Ragnarok, an attack on the Earth Alliance’s Heavens Base headquarters in Ireland, as well as Operation Fury, an attack on the Orb Union.

First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

MA-M343 beam rifle

MMI-M182 air gunlauncher

Rear view (Mobile suit mode)

Rear view (Mobile armor mode)