RX-107 [Rosette] Enhanced Land Battle Form

Model Number

RX-107

Unit Name

[Rosette] Enhanced Land Battle Form

Organization

Titans

First Known Deployment

unknown

Accommodation

Panoramic Monitor and Linear Seat

Dimensions

unknown

Weight

unknown

Construction

Luna-Titanium Armor on a Movable Frame

Powerplant

unknown

Propulsion

unknown

Performance

unknown

Equipment

Movable Shield, Armor Unit w/ Scattering Beam Gun, Rocket Thruster Flight System

Optional Equipment

none

Sensor Radius

unknown

Fixed Armaments

none

Optional Armaments

Keehar Beam Rifle shoulder mounted

Variations

RX-107 [Rosette] Enhanced Land Battle Form Prototype Plan

Pilot(s)

unknown

Assignment

Titans Test Team (Black Otter Team)

Development

Anaheim Electronic / Konpeitoh Arsenal

Mecha Designer

Fujioka Kenki

Model Number Breakdown

RX

Experimental mobile suit

10*

developed at Granada

Profile

The Enhanced Land Battle Form of the RX-107 “Rosette” is a ground combat form of the RX-107 used when the Murphy Team assaults Karaba’s Kamchatka base. This form is equipped with option parts so that the RX-107 can perform high-speed combat on the ground, and is capable of high-speed hovering movement. The optional hovering skirt unit contains powerful thermonuclear jet engines whose thrust enables the machine to float. Unlike thermonuclear rockets that generate thrust by consuming propellant, these thermonuclear jets use the atmosphere as (fuel? propellant? the term is illegible here), and thus have the merit of reducing propellant consumption and extending the mission operating time.

Technical Notes

Because the nuclear thermal jet engines of the Enhanced Land Battle Form draw in air and use it as a medium to produce thrust, they can essentially travel only straight ahead, making them useless for sharp turns and sudden changes of direction. Its hovering skirt unit contains two of the generator units seen in other TR series machines. The mobile suit itself has been converted to the same version as the standard RMS-108 Marasai, and the latches attached to its back and right shoulder can support a shield booster and the large beam rifle used by the atmospheric version of the TR-3 Kehaar. Its chest is protected by an armor unit similar to that of the Hizack Cannon, with a spread beam gun installed in the center.

Several other ideas were considered and discarded between the prototype plan and the final version. The hovering skirt unit was originally intended to house a compact Minovsky craft system, but this was omitted because the system couldn’t be made small enough. We’re also told that this unit was developed with flight in mind, but it failed to produce enough thrust, so its function was shifted to that of a high-speed hover unit.