Model number:Â XM-05B
Code name: Berga-Barus
Unit type:Â custom high performance mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â Crossbone Vanguard
Operator:Â Crossbone Vanguard
First deployment:Â UC 0123
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â head height 15.6 meters
Weight:Â empty 9.7 metric tons; max gross 27.6 metric tons
Armor materials:Â titanium alloy high ceramic composite
Powerplant:Â Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 5,410 kW
Propulsion:Â rocket thrusters: 107,190 kg total (16,580 kg, 4 x 9,580 kg, 3 x 8,950 kg, 8 x 3180 kg); vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 87
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments:Â beam shield, mounted on left forearm; 2 x beam saber, recharge rack/storage location unknown, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments:Â shot lancer, with attached 2-barrel heavy machine gun
The last model of the Berga series, the Crossbone Vanguard’s XM-05B Berga-Barus mobile suit was a high performance, customized version of the standard XM-05 Berga-Giros. The increase in performance in the Berga Barus was due primarily to the “wide wing type” shelf nozzles on its backpack. With the thrusters arranged over a much wider arc, the Berga-Barus was much more maneuverable than its Berga-Giros predecessor. At least one Giros-type unit was known to exist, operated by the Crossbone Vanguard’s Dark Tiger team in Side 3’s Zebra Zone in early UC 0123.
Pilot: Shelf Sheffield
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam Silhouette Formula 91 in U.C. 0123
Original mechanical designer:Â Kunio Okawara
Writer:
Hiroshi Yasuda (manga)
Artist:
Hiroshi Yasuda (manga)
Format:
1 volume
Manga Release:
Japan 08.05.1992 – 11.15.1993
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Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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