| E.F. SUPPORT CRAFT Big Tray class Land Battleship Medea Transport Aircraft |
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| Information: Name: Big Tray Role: Land Battleship Armaments: main cannon x2 3-barrel secondary turret x3 Operator: E.F.F. |
| Perhaps one of the antiquated Earth Federal Forces' more venerable designs, the Big Tray class Land |
| Battleship is a heavy-duty vehicle. Basically a massive hovercraft, the Big Tray's purpose is to ferry tanks, and later mobile suits, into combat, and give them suitable fire support against heavy fixed emplacements. Mounting two heavy-duty forward cannons and a trio of three barreled turrets on the port |
| starboard and stern areas, a Big Tray is a formidable opponent. It severly lacks anti-aircraft weaponry, but that is left intentionally as the accompanied mobile suits, tanks and aircraft are designed to suffice. Also, when not laying down heavy fire for its mobile suit contigenent, a Big Tray can be used as a mobile command post, much in the fashion of Colonel Ethan Lyers' Far East division in their search for Ghinius Sanklain's mountain base, where their target, the wicked mobile armor Apsaras, was being constructed. Even in the age of beam weaponry, the Big Tray's gunpowder and shell cannons still pack a superior punch, easily capable of rendering packs of mobile suits to scrap. |
| Additional pictures: A Big Tray on the move Closeup of a Big Tray's turret in action Ethan Lyers' Big Tray as a mobile HQ |
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| Information: Name: Medea Role: air transport Armaments: 2-barrel machinegun x2 Operator: E.F.F. |
| First instituted in World War II, the tactic of parachuting soldiers into the battlefield was and instant success. By landing behind the enemy's |
| front lines, paratroopers were able to advance, sabotage enemy installations, set up flares for air raids and take out fixed emplacements from behind. Though centuires old by the time of the One Year War, once in control of their own mobile suits, the Earth Federation more than proved that old tactics could still |
| be effective. A Medea air transport was intended for just such a purpose. Usually used for transporting cargo, a Medea could also parachute supplies, vehicles and mobile suits in a paradrop mission. Wedged inside the transport's cargo block, at least three mobile suits and thier support craft could be ferried into combat at once. The drop procedure was fairly simple. First, the Medea's back hatches would open, allowing the mobile suits' access to the outside. Moving into position, each mobile suit's parachute would deploy, sliding the suit out of the Medea's hold. The mobile suit would then free-fall for a minute or so, then open its parachute and drift safely to the ground. Support craft were always dropped last after the mobile suits had secured the landing zone. Intended to be escorted through enemy airspace, a Medea was lightly armed with a pair of anti-aircraft double-barreled machineguns. |
| Additional pictures: A Medea cruising through the skies Rear view of a Medea An RX-79(G) sliding out the back of a Medea View of a Type 74 Hovertruck's paradrop |
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