McCain's Mecha Encyclopedia:


Gamo Aerospace Command Unit (Nickname: Pincer)

Design: Invid
Builder: Invid
Operator:

Served with the Invid (? to ?)

Dimensions:

Height: 6.2 meters
Depth: 5.5 meters
Breadth: 5.8 meters
Mass: 26.5 metric tons

Propulsion Systems:

Powerplant:

Unknown.

Fuel Capacity: ? standard canisters of protoculture

Endurance and Mobility Limits:

Flying Speed: 725 kph

Running Speed: 112 kph

Protoculture cell endurance is approximately ? hours of continious combat usage

Offers full protection from NBC environment as well as ? days air supply

Weapons Systems:

Heat cannons (2): one on each shoulder. Fires a high-intensity multi-wavelength infra-red laser (600-1000 nm), delivering 10 MW of power each. Continuous beam is sustainable for up to three seconds. Both cannons fire together, and can be aimed at the same point on a target for increased penetration, or the beams can remain parallel, for more extensive damage.

Plasma pulse cannons (2): under the chin. Each delivers 1.5 MJ thermal energy per shot; firing 16 shots/minute/gun. Plasma supply for 16 shots available.

Three-taloned anti-personnel claws (2): on arms

Electonics:

Visual (low spectral resolution) capable of up to 4x magnification. Night vision optics are also provided, but suffer even more from the poor spectral resolution.
Protoculture Sensors, providing detection and tracking of active Protoculture-powered turbines. For detection of a high-power Veritech Fighter (such as an Alpha), good resolution extends out to 3.75km, fair resolution out to 7.5km, and poor resolution out to 21km. A typical Destroid is detectable at slightly more than half these distances, a Cyclone at four percent of these distances, and a Gallant rifle at about one percent of these distances. Similar mecha in service with the Regis prior to around 2040 probably operated equivalently at about twenty-five percent of the above ranges. Prior to around 2035, no Invid mecha were equipped with protoculture sensors.
External audio pickup
Short-range ultrasonic motion trackers.

Armor:

Armor is metallic, ceramic, composite.


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Technical information from the Unofficial Robotech Reference Guide