ORX-005 Gaplant TR-5 Hrairoo

ORX-005 Gaplant TR-5 [Hrairoo] is the Titans Test Team's Gaplant, built at the Oakland Newtype Lab and flown by Wes Murphy in the photo-novel Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans (U.C. 0087).

What it does in the story

The TR-5 was put together as the core unit of the planned Gaplant TR-5 [Fiver], the section that survives once the enhancement blocks are purged. Near the end of the Gryps Conflict the same frame was reworked into the Hrairoo-Rah II, an area-dominance machine.

What makes it different

• Booster shields replace the Gaplant's binders. The standard Gaplant's movable binders pull hard enough in flight that the machine was treated as one for enhanced pilots. The TR-5 swaps them for booster shields tested on the TR-1 [Hazel], bringing the load down to what an ordinary pilot can take.
• It was tuned with Hazel combat data. The result, a thruster unit on the back with a booster shield on each arm, sits close to the Hazel's assault form because the test team's Hazel data went into it. It handles enough like a Hazel that Murphy can control it on his first ground sortie.
• The rifle has a blade under the barrel. The long blade rifle is a beam pistol turned into a sniping weapon with a long barrel and stabiliser unit, with a heat blade underneath for close work.

How big is it?

• Overall height: 25.2 m according to Bandai's official spec, with an empty weight of 50.8 t and a full weight of 115.1 t
• 1/144: roughly 17.5 cm, which covers the HGUC release

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Frequently asked questions

Background sources: ORX-005 Gaplant TR-5 ［Hrairoo］ — Gundam Wiki · ギャプラン — 日本語版 Wikipedia