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The MA-05 Bigro is a mobile armor introduced in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam, and was first piloted by Tokwan.
Technology & Combat Characteristics[]
The MA-05 Bigro was Zeon's first space combat-use mobile armor. Powered by a high output fusion reactor, the Bigro also had high thrust thanks to a pair of thermonuclear rocket engines, and the combination of its short body with AMBAC made it capable of high mobility, being able to turn 180 degrees in 1.3 seconds. The Bigro excelled in high-speed hit-and-run tactics, but its high mobility made it difficult for a normal pilot to withstand the resulting G-forces.
The Bigro was also equipped with a Minovsky particle scattering system for jamming enemy units' sensors, and was armed with a pair of large claw arms, a mega-particle cannon in the nose, and two 4-tube missile launchers. Later models were armed with additional gatling cannons.[1] Due to the Bigro's late entry in the war, only a limited number of these costly machines were constructed, with several units serving as testbeds for next-generation mobile armors.
Armaments[]
- Mega Particle Cannon
- Built into the nose of the Bigro, it is the machine's main armament and is shielded by a beak-shaped cover when not in use.
- Quadruple Missile Launcher
- Four small missile launchers are equipped on each side of the machine, above the claw arms. They could be used to gain an advantage in high-speed combat by blocking the enemy unit's movement with a barrage of missiles.
- Claw Arm
- A pair of large arms installed at the front of the machine as AMBAC limbs. The tip of the arms have three claws for use in striking attacks. They are strong enough to penetrate Luna Titanium alloy, and can also perform simple actions such as grabbing enemy units.
- Gatling Cannon
- The late production models feature large-caliber multi-barrel Gatling Cannons on the side of its main body. These Gatling Cannons have a high-rate of fire and can damage the armor of mass-produced Federation mobile weapons.
Special Equipment & Features[]
- Minovsky Particle Scattering System
- A device which disperses Minovsky particles to surrounding area, jamming the sensors of enemy mobile suits and warships, rendering Bigro undetectable.
History[]
Before the One Year War began, there was a conceptual weapons competition between rival companies: one entry was MIP's MIP-X1 mobile armor, but it was rejected in favor of Zeonic Company's mobile suit technology. After the outbreak of the war, Zeon re-evaluated the MIP-X1 and retooled it into the first space combat-use mobile armor, the MA-05 Bigro.
One Bigro was piloted by Tokwan, who was stationed onboard Char Aznable's Zanzibar. It engaged the SCV-70 White Base but was defeated by Amuro Ray in his RX-78-2 Gundam. Afterwards, at the battle of A Baoa Qu, at least three Bigro teams were deployed. Overall, about 14 of the early models were produced, with the production number of later models being unclear. In U.C. 0083 a Bigro was operated by EFF Captain Ewen Bader to battle the Cima Fleet. This machine was requisitioned after the One Year War for testing, after which it was further modified for combat and painted white with an EFSF logo.
Variants[]
- MA-05 Bigro Kai
- MA-05Ad Big Rang
- MA-05HG Buran
- MA-05M Bigro Meir
- MA-05R Big Ruf
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Anime[]
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Notes & Trivia[]
- According to Yoshiyuki Tomino, the name for the Bigro is a play on the words for "big claw".
- The 2023 game Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. ENGAGE suggested that Tokwan acted as not only a test pilot, but one of the chief engineers of the Bigro. A cutscene showing Ashley Horn and Simus Al Bakharov states that Tokwan secured funding for not only the Bigro, but for future MAs meant for lunar combat including the MAN-03 Braw Bro. The MA-06 Val Walo is noted as being the eventual successor of Tokwan's Bigro. (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm39892834).
- A Bigro painted in Char's signature red colour and piloted by an alternate Char made a brief appearance in the 12th episode of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.
References[]
- ↑ "Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Mission Complete" book, pg. 69-70.
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