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Ace Pilot Gallery

As a complement to our MS Classics series, we present for you a retrospective of some of the Gundam world's greatest and most accomplished mobile suit pilots. Some may already be familiar faces, others you may know by reputation only, and a few may be strangers to all but the most fanatical Gundam devotee. But for their accomplishments in battle, we grant these elite mobile suit operators the title of ace pilot.

Illustrations by Mark Simmons

Aces of the Duchy of Zeon

These are the most accomplished and famous of Zeon's mobile suit pilots. Many of these aces distinguished themselves during the early weeks of the war in such conflicts as Operation British and the Ruum Campaign.

01: Char Aznable
02: Ranba Ral
03: Gaia, Ortega, Mash
04: Johnny Ridden
05: Shin Matsunaga
06: Roy Greenwood
07: Ian Greydon
08: Anavel Gato

Aces of the Earth Federal Forces

While fewer in number and less flamboyant than their Zeon adversaries, the Federal Forces had some ace pilots of its own. Foremost among these were the pilots of the assault carrier White Base, assigned to the 13th Autonomous Corps.

12: Amuro Ray
13: Sayla Mass
14: Kai Shiden
15: Hayato Kobayashi