RGM-89 Jegan

Model number: RGM-89
Code name: Jegan
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics
Operator(s): Earth Federation Forces/Londo Bell; Birnam
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 20.4 meters; head height 19.0 meters
Weight: empty 21.3 metric tons; max gross 47.3 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium alloy ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1,870 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 61,400 kg total (12,700 kg, 2 x 9,200 kg, 2 x 8,800 kg); vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 12
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 14,200 meters; targeting scope (Birnam custom units only)
Fixed armaments: beam saber, stored in recharge rack on right hip armor, hand-carried in use; 3 x hand grenade, mounted on left hip armor
Optional fixed armaments: vulcan pod system, mounted on head; shield, features 2 x twin missile launcher, mounts on either forearm
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle, powered by rechargeable energy cap; bazooka

The Earth Federation Forces contracted with Anaheim Electronics to develop a successor to the long-running RGM line of mass production mobile suits. This combination of the EFF’s expertise with the RGM series and Anaheim’s development technology produced the prototype RGM-88X Jeda, which was later followed by the improved mass production RGM-89 Jegan. Although not as fast or well-armed as the previous RGM-86R GM III, the Jegan was an all-around well-performing unit nonetheless. The Jegan mounted a fairly standard variety of weapons, armed with a beam rifle, a beam saber, shield-mounted missile launchers, three hand grenades and an optional head vulcan gun pod. Though initially built by Anaheim Electronics exclusively for the Londo Bell task force prior to the outbreak of the Second Neo Zeon War in UC 0093, the Jegan (and many of its variants) soon became an EFF standard, operating as its primary frontline unit for at least the next thirty years. The Jegan line was rendered obsolete in the UC 0120s by the introduction of smaller, more agile mobile suits developed by the Crossbone Vanguard.

Pilot(s): Kayra Su, Hathaway Noa, Bergh Scred, Wilder Katz, Scott, Yuu Kajima, Iago Haakana, Karl Spitz, Bosch Weller, Kamuna Tachibana
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
Original mechanical designer: Yutaka Izubuchi

Beam rifle

Beam saber

Grenade rack

Head

Rear view

Shield