Model number:Â ZM-D11S
Code name:Â Abigor
Unit type:Â anti-warship attack use transformable mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â BESPA (Zanscare Empire)
Operator:Â BESPA (Zanscare Empire)
First deployment:Â UC 0153
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard/canopy-style cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â mobile suit mode: head height 22.6 meters
Weight:Â empty 18.4 metric tons; max gross 45.3 metric tons
Armor materials:Â high titanium alloy ceramic composite
Powerplant:Â Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 7,340 kW
Propulsion:Â rocket thrusters: 185,740 kg total (2 x 51,360 kg, 2 x 24,940 kg, 2 x 16,570 kg); vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 16
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments:Â beam cannon, mounted in head in mobile suit mode and nosecone in mobile armor mode; 2 x beam scythe, stored in recharge racks in torso shoulders, hand-carried in use, can be combined into two-bladed beam scythe; 2 x beam katarl, recharge rack/storage location unknown, hand-carried in use; 1 x beam cutter, mounted on back in mobile suit mode and on top of main body in mobile armor mode, used for high-speed melee cutting attacks, or beam energy can be launched at target; 2 x beam cutter, used for high-speed melee cutting attacks, mounted in forearms in mobile suit mode and on sides of main body in mobile armor mode; 60 x beam net generator, storage location unknown, can be deployed to create blocking/entangling beam net over a large area
Optional hand armaments: none
BESPA’s first transformable mobile suit/mobile armor, the “dual type” ZM-D11S Abigor was developed and deployed in the early days of the Zanscare War in UC 0153. Despite its large size, the Abigor made the best use of both its forms, achieving high speed and mobility in its mobile armor form while packing a large amount of fighting power in its mobile suit form. The Abigor was equipped with a variety of strange weapons, including a pair of hand-carried beam scythes that could be joined into a single, double-ended weapon which could be spun to act as a sort of impromptu beam shield. The Abigor also carried a pair of beam blade-generating beam katarls, as well as a large number of beam net generators, which could be deployed to create an entangling energy web over a large area. In mobile armor mode, the Abigor made good use of this three beam cutter weapon, which could be used at high speed to slice through enemy targets; the beam cutter blade on its back could also fire its beam energy at a target like a normal ranged weapon. Despite its mobility and combat effectiveness, however, the Abigor was deemed by BESPA’s test pilots to be rather unremarkable, and its development was soon abandoned. However, its design soon resurfaced in other forms, such as the amphibious ZMT-D15M Galguyu.
Pilot: Godwald Hein
First appearance: Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
Original mechanical designer:Â Junya Ishigaki
Director:
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Writer(s):
Sukehiro Tomita
Ken Oketani
Kazuhiro Kanbe
Hideki Sonoda
Minoru Onoya
Mechanical Designer(s):
Hajime Katoki
Kunio Okawara
Junya Ishigaki
Character Designer:
Hiroshi Osaka
Musical Composer:
Akira Senju
Format:
51 episodes
Airdates:
Japan 04.02.1993 – 03.25.1994
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