Model
number: MAX-03
Code name: Adzam
Unit type: experimental ground combat mobile armor
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon Granada Base
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot and co-pilot, in standard cockpit in
main body
Dimensions: overall height 25.0 meters; overall width 55.9
meters
Weight: empty weight unknown; max gross 2500.0 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 62000 kW
Propulsion: 8 x VTOL rotor; Minovsky craft system
Fixed armaments: 8 x 2-barrel mega particle cannon, mounted
on main body; 3 x leader, delivers plasma electrical charge to
target, stored in main body
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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Essentially
a mobile gun battery, the Principality of Zeon's MAX-03 Adzam
was one of its earliest mobile armor designs, based on the old
G87 Luna Tank. Designed as an experimental ground combat unit,
the Adzam was the first mobile weapon equipped with the then-untested
Minovsky craft system, allowing it to hover in the air for virtually
unlimited lengths of time. Mounting eight double-barreled mega
particle cannon turrets, it was able to provide 360 degrees
of attack and defense against enemies. It also carried three
experimental "leader" weapons, designed to deliver a powerful
electrical plasma charge against ground units. The leader weapon
consisted of two components: an explosive container which saturated
the target with a "dust" of highly conductive particles of an
unknown material; and the leader weapon itself, which anchored
itself into the ground over its target, thus trapping its target
inside a "cage", and delivering its highly shocking attack.
Being an experimental unit, only a limited number of Adzams
were built, with one assigned to M'quve's mining division on
Earth. When Federation mobile suit pilot Amuro Ray discovered one
of Zeon's secret mining camps, M'quve and Kycilia Zabi piloted
the Adzam into battle against Amuro's RX-78-2
Gundam. The Gundam was nearly
destroyed in the battle when it became extremely overheated
by an attack from the Adzam's leader, but the effectiveness
of the leader's "dust" wore off in time for Amuro to save himself
and deliver a crippling blow to the experimental mobile armor.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot(s):
M'quve,
Kycilia Zabi
Appearances: Mobile
Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam
Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX;
Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War
Chronicles (manga)
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara