Technology & Combat Characteristics
In the early stages of the One Year War, the Principality of Zeon's Flanagan Institute had been searching throughout the colonies of Side 3 and Earth for Newtypes and thus began a program to design and manufacture weapons for Newtype use. The first of these was the MAN-03 Braw Bro, a mobile armor the size of a small battleship. It has the distinction of being the first mobile weapon to be equipped with the psychic communicator "Psycommu" system for piloting the MA and controlling the only weapons that the Braw Bro was equipped with: four wire-guided units mounting a mega particle gun (left and right spars) or twin mega particle guns (top and bottom spars)
Although designed for Newtypes, the Braw Bro can be operated by ordinary pilots. Its cockpit has three seats for one pilot and two gunners; the pilot maneuvers the Braw Bro while the gunners manually controlled the wire-guided mega particle guns. It would require four gunners to operate the Braw Bro on the same level with a Newtype pilot. The Braw Bro was also designed to separate into different blocks, so that any test data could be preserved.
History
A total of three Braw Bros are known to have existed. The first unit was a prototype which was being tested and repaired near Side 6 and was co-piloted by 2nd. Lt. Simus Al Bakharov and 1st. Lt. Cowal. Its left block was destroyed by the RX-78-2 Gundam and Cowal was killed, but the right block piloted by Al Bakharov escaped. The unit was later reconstructed based on the data recovered from the right block, and was assigned to the Newtype Challia Bull with Al Bakharov as his assistant. Bull piloted the Braw Bro in a field test against the White Base in the Corregidor Shoal Zone, but it was overwhelmed and destroyed by the Gundam as well.
The second Braw Bro unit was seen at the gathering of Zeon space forces at the asteroid fortress A Baoa Qu following the firing of the Solar Ray, however its combat record during the final battle and its whereabouts are unknown. The third unit was supposedly encountered by the Pegasus-class assault carrier Thoroughbred while they were escorting Zeon Prime Minister Darcia Bakharov to Granada to end the One Year War. It was destroyed by Ford Romfellow in the RX-78-5 Gundam Unit 5 "G05".