NRX-055 Baund-Doc

Model number: NRX-055
Code name: Baund-Doc
Unit type: prototype Newtype use transformable mobile armor
Manufacturer: Earth Federation Forces
Operator: Titans
First deployment: UC 0087
Accommodation: pilot only in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso (NRX-055-1 has additional seat for instructor/operator)
Dimensions: mobile suit mode: overall height 29.7 meters, head height 27.3 meters; mobile armor mode: overall length 27.2 meters, overall width 15.2 meters, flying height 13.0 meters, standing height 19.3 meters
Weight: empty 82.7 metric tons; max gross 129.4 metric tons; mass ratio 1.33
Armor materials: Gundarium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 2,260 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 145,800 kg total (3 x 48,600 kg); vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 4
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 9,840 meters; psycommu system
Fixed armaments: diffuse mega particle cannon, power rated at 16.4 MW, mounted in left arm in mobile suit mode and in main body in mobile armor mode; beam saber, stored in recharge rack in torso, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle, power rated at 2.1 MW, stored on main body in mobile armor mode, can be stored on waist storage rack in mobile suit mode

A Newtype-use transformable mobile armor developed at the Titans’ Augusta Newtype Laboratory, the NRX-055 Baund-Doc was perhaps one of the strangest mobile weapons fielded during the Gryps War. Despite its apparent size and bulk, the Baund-Doc’s half-egg-shaped mobile armor mode was fast and maneuverable, equally capable of offensive and defensive operations, and it transformed into a non-symmetrical mobile suit form armed with a beam rifle and beam saber for standard one-on-one combat, as well as a powerful diffuse mega particle cannon mounted in its large left arm for attacking several targets at once. It is equipped with a psycommu system which allowed its pilot to more directly interface with the Baund-Doc’s operation. Although normal human pilots could operate this transformable mobile weapon, its true potential only came out in the hands of a genetically engineered Cyber Newtype or a natural Newtype. Only three units were constructed, designated NRX-055-1 through NRX-055-3. Unit 1 was the prototype, and its cockpit was set up with two seats – one for the pilot, and another for an instructor/operator. All three units proved to be deadly foes for the AEUG, although none of the Baund-Docs survived the war.

Pilot(s): Gates Capa, Rosamia Badam, Jerid Messa
First appearance: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Original mechanical designer(s): Makoto Kobayashi (principal design), Kazumi Fujita (cleanup)

Beam rifle

Cockpit

Diffuse mega particle cannon

Rear view (Mobile suit mode)

Rear view (Mobile armor mode)