AGSU-05 Series

## AGSU-05A Shiranui

A rough appearance of what the AGSU-05 units look like

## Equipment

### Fixed/Optional

Multipurpose Backpack, 2x 5 Barrel Smoke grenade launchers, 2x IR Dazzlers, 1x Chaff and Flare Pod, 2x Ground Mobility Enhancer

## IAFA Characterstics

### Vernier Count

0

(Advanced Ground Support Unit-5 meter)

## **AGSU-05A SHIRANUI-(Standard)**

### **Loadout**

The basic loadout of a Shiranui is all fixed weaponry, and equipment along with either a LAR-25, or HAC-65 as it's handheld primary weapon of choice.

### Weaponry

**HAC-65-Heavy Assault Cannon:** A large, 65mm high velocity cannon that is fired from the shoulder of the Shiranui, it has 5 round magazines, and carries two magazines on it’s rear skirting armour.

**LAR-25 Light Assault Rifle:** A slightly upscaled version of the **MPAC-20 Assault Cannon**, the **LAR-25** fires a slightly larger round, with a similar velocity but yet with much more mass. This allows the **LAR-25** to punch through lightly armoured vehicles such as IFV’s, and or taking out APC’s. It is also effective at taking out other “Mini-MS’s”. The **LAR-25** is equipped with a targeting system with NV/IR capabilities, variable zoom. Along with 100 round box magazines, or 50 round box magazines for a low profile. It is also equipped with a heat bayonet.

**X2 MPAC20-Assault Cannon:** Mounted under each arm of the Shiranui are 20mm single barreled medium firerate. Each cannon is equipped with a 300 round box magazine, spare magazines are stored on the back of the Shiranui, or stored inside of it’s Multipurpose Backpack if equipped with one. If needed the **MPAC-20** can be purged/dropped, leaving only it’s mount behind.

**X1 12.7 HMG:** A 12.7mm machine gun mounted in the head of the AGSU to provide very limited anti-air capabilities. One is mounted on the left side of the head.

**X4 MTOWS:** Similar to a real life TOW-2B missile, these missiles are designed to destroy armoured vehicles with a top-down attack. Two are mounted on each shoulder of the Mini-MS.

**X1 EMATW:** A backup melee weapon that is essentially a bowie knife scaled up for use by a 5 meter tall Mobile Suit, the EMATW is only meant to be used in emergencies and against slow lumbering targets. Although it is quite effective at clearing brush, or shopping through thin walled wooden buildings, or being used to stab down engine grills on tanks.

### **Equipment**

**Multipurpose Backpack:** The Shiranui can be equipped with a backpack that allows it to store additional magazines, spare fuel, or even upto 2 spare MTOWS rockets.

**BACKPACK ATTACHMENTS**: The Multipurpose backpack can have a combined parachute/rocket booster attachment that allows any AGSU unit equipped with this attachment to be airdropped.

**X2 5 barrel Smoke Grenade launchers:** Equipped on each shoulder of the Shiranui, they are smoke grenade launchers that fire beam chaff smoke, or normal thermal image blocking smoke.

**X2 IR Dazzlers:** Mounted in the shoulders of the AGSU series, each shoulder has a IR Dazzle meant to confuse and scramble ATGM’s that are in flight, or to stop an IR-based ATGM from locking on.

**X1 Chaff and Flare Pod:** Mounted on the back of the AGSU, is a small combined chaff/flare pod meant to cause ATGM’s or guided munitions to lose their lock on the AGSU. It has 60 chaff, and 30 flares.

**X2 Ground Mobility Enhancer:** Attached to the back of each calf of the AGSU, is essentially a medium sized wheel that deploys down to allow the AGSU to reach even greater speeds on the ground, along with giving it greater mobility.

### **Performance Notes**

The AGSU-05A Shiranui, is a extremely tiny, and extremely light Mobile Suit. As such the Shiranui is extremely nimble on the ground, yet unlike it's larger cousins like the ATG-07 Konojima, or the ATG-05 Honoshiba it does not have enough armour to take on normal sized MS's. As such it's relegated to Infantry Support roles, or providing support to armour units.

## **AGSU-05R KUMOBI-(Recon variant)**

**Mobile Suit Name:** AGSU-05R Kumobi - Lit. Translation - “Spider Fire”

**Armour/Armour Material:** Gundarium Alloy Super-Ceramic Composite

**Height:** 5m

**Weight:** 5 tons

**Tier:** Basic

**Weaponry:**

**X1 (STANDARD) HMR-25 Heavy Marksmen Rifle 25mm:** A 25x255mm bolt-action sniper variant of the **LAR-25**, it is designed as a weapon meant to destroy IFVs, APCs, and other lightly armoured vehicles from long range. Along with being able to load specialized APFSDS rounds in order to kill other Mini-MSs. It has 10 round magazines, with the magazines being stored on the chest, back, along with backpack of the

**X1 (OPTIONAL) LAR-25 Light Assault Rifle 25mm:**

**X1 12.7 HMG**

**X2 MTOWS**

**Reconnaissance Backpack:** The Kumobi is equipped with a lower profile version of the Shiranui’s backpack, that only carries spare ammo, and enhanced communication/sensor equipment. It also carries one tiny inflatable recon balloon, equipped with IR/visual sensors to provide a top-down/aerial view of the battlefield, connected with a hardline cable to the Kumobi. With a maximum altitude of 400 meters.

**BACKPACK ATTACHMENTS**: The Multipurpose backpack can have a combined parachute/rocket booster attachment that allows any AGSU unit equipped with this attachment to be airdropped.

**X1 “Phantom” Camo Netting:** Specially made camo netting for the Kumboi it covers all of the Mini-MS from head to toe, it helps drastically reduce the IR signature of the Kumobi, along with letting it better blend into its environment. The “Phantom” camo netting comes in any known camouflage pattern.

**History:** Will be detailed in it’s own history section down below.

**Appearance:** The Kumobi is essentially a Shiranui without the shoulder armour, and has lightened arm, and leg armour. Making it an overall slimmed down Shiranui, along with a new backpack that is far lower profile then the normal “**Multipurpose Backpack**”. Besides this the Kumobi’s visor does not glow at all unlike the Shiranui’s.

**Straight line acceleration:**0.1

**AMBAC maneuvers:** 1-2

**Direction changing speed:**0.1

**Powerplant:** ATG-25000 Turbine Engine, with back-up battery pack system.

**Generator Output:**800KW

**Main Thruster Count:** 2 main thrusters located in the back.

**Vernier count:** 0

**Miscellaneous Performance Notes:** Since it was originally made to be a lighter, faster variant of the Shiranui, the Kumobi boosts a far longer operational time then the Shiranui, due to it’s lower weight, along with more streamlined limbs. Outside of this, the Kumobi performs on par with the Shiranui in everything except sensors, and physical endurance. The Kumobi has far better sensors for it’s reconnaissance duties than the Shiranui, yet lacks some of the Shiranui’s physical endurance(due to it’s lighter armour)

## **AGSU-05H NOBI-(Heavy Variant)**

**Mobile Suit Name:** AGSU-05H Nobi - Lit. Translation - “Field Fire”

**Armour/Armour Material:** Gundarium Alloy Super-Ceramic Composite

**Height:** 5m

**Weight:** 10 tons

**Tier:** Basic

**Weaponry:**

**X HMG-25 Heavy Machine Gun 25mm:** A heavy machine gun variant of the **LAR-25**, It fires a longer/larger round of the **LAR-25’s** round, it is essentially a normal-sized MS 25mm CIWS turned into a two-handed mini-ms gatling cannon. It is a dual feed gun with the option to either be loaded with two separate magazines (of 500 rounds per magazine, they are helical drum mags), or connected via two separate armoured ammo belts to the **Heavy Support Backpack**. It comes standard with a built in FCS, laser designator, along with a visual ammo counter for when the FCS’s link to the Nobi pilot’s hud is disabled.

**X1 12.7 HMG**

**X4 MTOWS**

**X1 EMATW**

**Equipment:**

**Heavy Support Backpack:** The Nobi’s own unique backpack is of only slightly larger size then the Shiranui’s **Multipurpose Backpack**, with the heavy support backpack having to hold upto 4000 rounds of ammo for it’s HMG-25, along with being more armoured then the Shiranui’s normal backpack. Overall this makes only the Nobi capable of using this backpack, as the other AGSU-05 units lack both the proper attachment mechanism along with the physical capability to walk with this backpack on.

**BACKPACK ATTACHMENTS**: The Multipurpose backpack can have a combined parachute/rocket booster attachment that allows any AGSU unit equipped with this attachment to be airdropped.

**“Yamato” Enhanced Armour Upgrade Package:** The “Yamato” **EAUP**, consists of additional armour plating to the chest, shoulders, and legs of the Nobi. Along with adding a mixture of ERA plating, and normal reactive armour plating to the head, along with arms. The ERA is also applied to the additional armour to the chest, shoulders, and legs. In total it doubles the effective armour of the chest, head, and shoulders of the Nobi when compared to the Shiranui.

**Straight line acceleration:**0.1

**AMBAC maneuvers:** 1.5

**Direction changing speed:**0.1

**Powerplant:** ATG-25000 Turbine Engine, with back-up battery pack system.

**Generator Output:**800KW

**Main Thruster Count:** 2 main thrusters located in the back.

**Vernier count:** 0

**Miscellaneous Performance Notes:** The Nobi is a heavily up-armoured version of the Shiranui, which means it a good bit slower than a Shiranui. Yet it has far better armour protection then the Shiranui, allowing it to tank hits that would outright destroy it’s weaker armoured brother.