FSWS Plan

The FSWS Plan  (aka Full-Armour System And Weapon System or Federal Suit Weapon System) was a military program designed by the Earth Federation Forces to further increase the combat capabilities of the Gundam to win the war against Zeon. It was first featured in the original design series Mobile Suit Variations.

History
Late in the One Year War the Zeon High Command begun improving existing mobile suit designs to better their chances against the Earth Federation. To counter this the Federation started the FSWS Plan, their own upgrade project to strengthen the RX-78-2 Gundam. The plan centered around increasing the gundam's attack and defense by adding more weapons for firepower and armor for better protection. The FSWS was tested on several prototype gundam's during OYW to collect better data for the plan to improve. However the same problem keep appearing, the enhanced firepower and armor reduced mobile suit's mobility due to its increased weight.

Before the engineers could fix the problem the war ended and the plan would be forgotten until many years after the war.