Magella Attack Tank

In the fictional world of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam, the Magella Attack Tank was the main battle tank of the Principality of Zeon's ground forces throughout the One Year War.

Magella Attack Tanks used a powerful 175mm cannon for their main purposes. The Magella Attacks also used a 3-barreled 35mm machine gun for attacks against infantry, the Earth Federation's Type 61 Tank, and enemy mobile suit forces. The Magella Attack also has a very large canopy-style cockpit, very similar to fighter aircraft, which is very unusual for a tank but gives the men inside a more open view of the battlefield.

In case the body was destroyed, the Zeon forces actucally gave the Magella Attack Tanks a detachable cockpit, called the Magella Top. The Magella Top was little more than a escape vessel with a cannon, lacking the fuel to stay afloat for more than a few mere minutes.

Magella Attack Tanks, as other weapons that preceded mobile suits, were ineffective in the age of mobile suits during the One Year War. They were slower. Their cannon fire rate was slower than what a mobile suit could do, as well. Lastly, their 35mm machine gun were just too small to be effective against a mobile suit's with luna-titanium allow armor. However, unlike some other weapons, actually scored some victories against mobile suits, since its 175mm cannon was capable of destroying enemy mobile suits with a single shot, even mobile suits with Luna Titanium alloy would be destroyed or suffer heavy damage from a direct hit. One other good use came out of the Magella Attack Tanks: The Magella Top Cannon. This weapon basically a jury rigged hand-held cannon for the Zeon's MS-05 Zaku Is and MS-06 Zaku IIs when they could not get their 280mm Zaku Bazookas or ammo for their bazookas, or when they needed the additional punch of this weapon.