Model
number: MS-11
Code name: Act Zaku
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Earth Federation Forces (based on a design by
Zeonic Company)
Operator(s): Earth Federation Forces
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 18.7 meters; head height 18.2
meters
Weight: empty 59.1 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 1440 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output 64800 kg
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3600 meters;
magnetic coated joints
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle, power by rechargeable
energy cap; machine gun; bullpop gun; heat hawk
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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During the
last weeks of the One Year War, Principality of Zeon mobile suit engineers
worked to develop advanced new mobile suit technologies for
mass production units as part of Zeon's "Pezun Project." One
special feature first introduced into the in-development MS-11
Act Zaku was "magnetic coated" joints. This process involved
coating the mobile suit's joints with a special material that,
when electrically charged like a magnetic field, would reduce
joint friction to almost nothing - the end result being a much
faster and more responsive mobile suit. The Act Zaku was
also being designed to carry a beam rifle similar to the MS-14
Gelgoog and the Earth Federation Forces' RX-78-2
Gundam. The mobile suit design itself was completed, although
the beam rifle was still in development, and the Act Zaku
was slated to temporarily carry a machine gun. However, the war
ended shortly thereafter, and the Act Zaku never made it
to the Zeonic Company's production lines. The Earth Federation
Forces captured the Act Zaku's plans and, inspired by its
high performance design, put the Act Zaku into production
for itself.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Appearances:
MS-X;
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Outer Gundam;
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in
Space
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
Bullpop
gun
Heat hawk