The Dinosauria (重戦車型, Dinozauria?) is the Heavy Tank Type Legion unit. It greatly outclasses the other standard Legion types, such as the Ameise, Grauwolf, and Löwe. This unit was once used as the host of Shourei Nouzen, which was later destroyed by the Spearhead Squadron.
Description[]
As one the heaviest class of the standard Legion types, the Dinosauria weighs 100 tons and is able to easily trample and crush its adversaries. It's large 155 mm cannon allows for superior fire power compared to the Löwe, and both its 75 mm coaxial cannon and the twin 12.7 mm machine guns allow it to pick off smaller, lightly armored targets such as the M1A4 Juggernaut. It is heavily armoured all around, it's said that its frontal armor is durable enough to even withstand a hit from its own main gun at point blank range, and even the top of the turret is impenetrable by the 57mm cannon on the Juggernaut. The only weak spot on the vehicle is the engine vent on the back end of the hull. The specific Dinosauria manned by the vestiges of Rei was able to use Liquid Micromachine "arms" to perform various tasks.
A rare flamethrower equipped variant of the Dinosauria is also produced by the Legion, this model replaces the 75mm coaxial cannon with a coaxial heavy flamethrower, the fuel tank for the flamethrower is mounted on the back end of the unit. One of the 12.7mm heavy machine guns has also been replaced with a weaker 7.63mm general purpose machine gun. A wide range anti-personnel sensor is also installed on the flamethrower Dinosauria. This choice armament is very unusual for the Legion, as it focuses on incinerating its targets slowly and painfully instead of performing quick and efficient kills. The unit is reportedly controlled by a former Eighty-Six who was consumed by his hatred towards the Republic.
Trivia[]
- Considering the German theme for Legion units' names, Dinosaurier might be the more accurate romanization of the katakana. Despite the precedent of silent corrections, such as Lazer Edge being corrected to Razor Edge, Yen Press and subsequent English translations have continued to use Dinosauria.
- In Volume 2, it's stated that the Dinosauria is capable of firing depleted uranium or tungsten sabots (the latter of which is described as an old type of ammunition) as well as HEAT rounds from its 155mm main gun. The widespread usage of depleted uranium rounds hinted that the Legion most likely has access to nuclear fission power plants, as depleted uranium is primarily a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process used to fuel fission reactors. Most probably some of their Admiral units rely on nuclear fission to generate power.