Technology & Combat Characteristics

Since it was designed for anti-ship combat, the Cangrejo is equipped with a powerful mega particle cannon with firepower equal to that of a battleship's mega particle cannon. The cannon is located on the left side of the main body, opposite the mono-eye sensor. For close combat and anti-mobile suit battle, the mobile armor is equipped with two large claws, giving the Cangrejo an appearance similar to a crab. For melee combat these claws can be used to grab and crush mobile suits, and the right claw also mounts a single beam gun for ranged combat. Lastly, the mobile armor mounts many anti-aircraft guns across its main body to defend against attacks from above or below.

History

The Cangrejo was one of several mobile armors created by the Jupiter Empire during their plans to attack Earth. The first known unit was used to attack the Crossbone Vanguard forces after luring them intro a trap above Jupiter. While a squad of EMS-10 Pez Batalla mobile suits attacked the Mother Vanguard directly, the Cangrejo fought with the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1, piloted by inexperienced Tobia Arronax. Since Tobia had problems defeating the large mobile armor, Kincade Nau launched in a replacement Core Fighter and switched it with the one inserted into the X-1, thus taking control of the suit. The more experienced Kincade was quickly able to destroy the Cangrejo.

Multiple Cangrejo mobile armors were used to defend a Jupiter Empire base on one of the Jupiter's moons, Io. Instead of fighting these units directly the Crossbone Vanguard launched decoys and went around.

Several months later, the Cangrejo was put into limited mass production and used to fight the Earth Federation Forces above Earth.