Fat Uncle

The Fat Uncle transport aircraft was the primary non-combat transport aircraft for the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War. The Fat Uncle’s ungainly appearance belied its true effectiveness, as it was a highly efficient aircraft, able to carry nearly twice its weight in cargo, including Zaku-type mobile suits standing in the massive cargo bay. This was in part due to the powerful thermonuclear jet engines used for thrust, and the large VTOL rotors used for lift. Despite the similarities between the thermonuclear jet engines of the Fat Uncle and Gaw assault carrier, it was unknown if they used the same type of engines. The Fat Uncle could carry roughly three mobile suits, but the exact capacity it could carry was difficult to estimate, as it was not originally designed to carry mobile suits, but rather a more general range of cargo. Long after the One Year War, Zeon remnants used several modified Fat Uncles during an attack on Australia’s Torrington Base in UC 0096.