PMS-MDC-01T Gundam Typhoon

Model Number: PMS-MDC-01T
Code name: Typhoon
Unit Type: mobile suit
Manufacturer: Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc.
Operator: Mars Defense Corps
First deployment: Early AC 216
Pilots: Yoshino Yuy
Accomodation: Pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Height: 17.2 meters
Weight: 11.3 tons
Armor: Gundanium alloy with anti-acid glass coating
Powerplant: Ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: Head mounted sensors, range unknown; Vernier booster system, thrust rating unknown; ECM hyper jammer, mounted on backpack, disrupts nearby sensors
Fixed armaments: 4 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x 6-tube micromissle launcher, mounted on waist armor
Optional fixed armaments: Typhoon shield, mounted on left arm, contains high-pressure acid cannon; 8 x 6-tube guided missile launcher pack, mounted on shoulder, arm, and leg hardpoints; 2 x beam gattling, mounted on backpack; 2 x large anti-ship missile, stored on backpack
Optional hand armaments: 2 x beam scimitar, hand carried in use

In preparation of the expected conflict with Venus, Mars governor Milliardo Peacecraft, with funding from the Winner Corporation, secretly designed and built several new Gundams to meet the threat. Prototype Mobile Suits, Inc, already well regarded by the governor for their refit of his Tallgeese mobile suit, was again hired to design and help build these new Gundams. One of the first units completed was the PMS-MDC-01T Gundam Typhoon.

Easily the heaviest of the new suits, the Typhoon was equipped with a Vernier flight system to help compensate for the extra mass. Unlike the Tallgeese or the Gryphon however, the Typhoon cannot truly fly under its own power, but it can for the most part outmanuver most mobile suits on the ground or in space. It was intended largely for fire support, with most of its weapons consisting of traditional explosive ordinance instead of fancy beam weapons. For close-range defense it mounted a dual set of head vulcan cannons, and could carry a pair of beam scimitars into combat. Its most unique and devastating weapon though, was the Typhoon cannon mounted in its shield, a powerful sprayer that deployed a particularly corrosive acid. Fully loaded, the Typhoon carried roughly as much firepower as the original Gundam Heavyarms, boasting a total of 48 missiles, two beam gattlings, and a pair of large missiles intended for taking out battleships.

Heero Yuy's son Yoshino was selected from among the Preventers to go to Mars and take command of the Typhoon. Though unhappy with the decision, the Typhoon would become Yoshino's personal unit throughout almost all of the fighting in AC 216 and AC 217.