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MS-07H
Gouf Flight Test Type
Model number: MS-07H Code name: Gouf Flight Test Type Unit type: prototype ground combat mobile suit Manufacturer: Zeonic Company Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Earth Federation Forces First deployment: UC 0079 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: overall height 19.3 meters; head height 18.8 meters Weight: empty 63.9 metric tons; max gross 76.6 metric tons Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1034 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters/thermonuclear jet engines: 50875 kg total Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.66 G Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3600 meters Fixed armaments: 2 x 5-barrel 75mm machine gun, barrels mounted as hand fingers Optional hand armaments: 360mm giant bazooka, clip-fed, 10 rounds per clip
Following the Principality of Zeon's invasion and subsequent occupation of much of Earth during the One Year War, the Zeon military found that their revolutionary mobile suits that proved so effective in space combat were essentially slow-moving targets on Earth. A program was initiated to develop an atmospheric flight-capable mobile suit, and four MS-07 Goufs were modified into the experimental MS-07H Gouf Flight Test Type. Mounting aerodynamic control surfaces on its backpack and a pair of powerful thermonuclear jet engines on each leg, the Gouf Flight Test Types were assigned to Zeon's captured California Base and later transferred to an air force base in Arizona for extensive test flights. This initial design would prove flawed, however, and over the course of its test flight schedule, the Gouf Flight Test Types were refurbished and redesigned along the way, the last incarnation being the MS-07H-4 model before the program was finally scrapped.
Pilot:
Billy Won
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