Technology & Combat Characteristics
Created by Neo Zeon based on the 'Project Zeta' series of MS, the AMX-107 Bawoo is capable of transforming and separating into the Bawoo Attacker (upper torso) and autonomous Bawoo Nutter (lower torso) units. On Glemy Toto's orange-colored prototype, the left thigh armor is decorated with the archaic kanji 𪚢, which combines the characters for and and is pronounced "bau" (bawoo) in Japanese. Glemy highly praised the Bawoo Attacker's fluid, effortless mobility, and its potential as an escape unit. The standard armaments of the Bawoo consisted of grenade launchers, beam sabers, beam rifle, and shield with five mega particle cannons. When required, it can also carry three missiles on each flexible wing binders.
In U.C. 0096, the Neo Zeon remnants, the Sleeves, deployed modified Bawoo units. Besides a new color scheme and the group's distinctive markings on its arms and chest, the suit also gained a pair of vulcan guns on its torso, a pair of machine cannons in its side skirt armor and uses a beam machine gun as well as a shield without the mega particle cannons. The Bawoo Nutter was reconfigured to have its own cockpit, granting better coordination with the Bawoo Attacker, and allowed the Nutter to continue operating if the Attacker was destroyed. The Nutter could also carry six missiles, bringing the total amount of missiles to twelve.
History
In U.C. 0088, which could be considered the golden age of the transformable mobile suit, the transformable mobile suits of each side were demonstrating their full effectiveness. The Axis engineers, feeling they couldn't afford to fall behind, eagerly attacked the matter of transformable mobile suits as well. To that end, they developed the AMX-107 Bawoo to examine new possibilities. Although Axis already had the transformable Gaza series mobile suit, such as the AMX-003 Gaza-C and AMX-006 Gaza-D, it had fallen behind in developing machines that could resist the transformable mobile suits of the Federation Forces, AEUG, and Titans.
The Bawoo was developed using the Zeta Project series mobile suits, such as the MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam, as a reference. This was possible as Axis obtained technologies through political deals with the Earth Federation, and also acquired technical know-how from former Zeon engineers working for Anaheim Electronics and AEUG who had returned to Axis. Initially, the Bawoo's plan called for a pilot each for the Bawoo Attacker and Bawoo Nutter, but this was judged poorly in terms of pilot efficiency and was later replaced by the Bawoo Nutter being remote controlled. However, the remote control was later dropped as it was found to be difficult for the pilot to use. Due to the Bawoo's excellent specifications, its deployment was changed to a limited production model for high-ranking officers and aces, with the transformation and docking mechanism scrapped.
A prototype Bawoo was tested by Glemy Toto, who provided feedbacks on the potential of the separated forms. Based on these feedbacks, the developers revived the transformation and docking mechanism, and the Bawoo Nutter was made capable of functioning as a giant missile. The higher brass subsequently gave permission for the suit's mass production. The mass production version of the Bawoo has a green color scheme. During Glemy's rebellion, some units were used by his splinter faction and were painted in a gray color scheme.
In U.C. 0096, a number of these mobile suits survived and were used by the Sleeves during the Laplace Incident. These mobile suits were modified with new weaponry, repainted into a new color scheme and given the distinctive markings featured on many of the mobile suits used by the group. One such unit was seen battling the Nahel Argama's mobile suits at Industrial 7, where it destroyed a RGZ-95C ReZEL Commander Type. Shortly after, it launched a solo offensive, charging towards the Nahel Argama, but was destroyed by the combined attacks from the ship's guns and defending mobile suits.
In U.C. 0115, several Bawoos were used by Golden Eagle, a Zeon Remnants terrorist group sponsored by the retired Monaghan Bakharo. These Bawoos were deployed when a team from the Earth Federation Forces' Fastest Formula (FF) Corps, comprised of F90N Gundam F90 NG-Type, F89 Gundam F89, and F70 Cannon Gundam, attacked the Golden Eagle's "Insel" asteroid base. These Bawoos were easily destroyed by the Gundam F90 NG-Type.