Model number:
ZM-S08G
Code name: Zolo
Unit type: mass production ground combat general purpose
transformable mobile suit
Manufacturer: BESPA (Zanscare Empire)
Operator: BESPA (Zanscare Empire)
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard/canopy-style cockpit
in torso/Top Terminal
Dimensions: mobile suit mode: head height 14.8 meters
Weight: empty 8.9 metric tons; max gross 21.2 metric
tons
Armor materials: titanium alloy/neo-ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 5120 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 11890 kg, 2 x 7630
kg; beam rotor/shield, provides helicopter-style atmospheric
flight and hovering ability, operable in mobile suit and helicopter
modes (see also description under "Fixed Armaments"); vernier
thrusters/apogee motors: 30
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.84 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown;
3 x hardpoint, used to mount beam rotor, 1 located on each forearm,
1 located on backpack; transformation/docking system, mobile
suit can separate into separate Top Terminal and Bottom Terminal
aircraft; unmanned Bottom Terminal operated by onboard computer
auto-pilot system or by pilot in Top Terminal via wireless remote
control
Fixed armaments: beam rotor/shield, mounted on either
forearm hardpoint in mobile suit mode and on backpack hardpoint
in helicopter mode; 2 x beam saber, recharge rack/storage location
unknown, hand-carried in use; vulcan gun, mounted in nose
of Top Terminal, operable only on separated Top Terminal
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle, powered by replaceable
e-pac; beam bazooka; multi-bazooka; Gatling gun
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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A ground-use
variant of BESPA's ZM-S06S Zoloat,
the ZM-S08G Zolo was built as a transforming mobile suit capable
of splitting up into two separate components for aerial combat.
These two components were called "Top Terminal" and "Bottom
Terminal", with the Top Terminal acting as a manned attack helicopter
and the bottom terminal carrying additional weapons and operating
as a remote-controlled strafing/bombing unit. The Zolo was also
the first mobile suit to use a "beam rotor", a device which
not only created spinning beam blades that created lift and
a control surface similar to a helicopter's rotor, but also
doubled as a beam shield. Despite the theoretical advantages
of this system, the Zolo would prove to be ineffective in mobile
suit combat, and all of the produced units were later phased
out of service.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot(s):
Cronicle Asher, Gary Tan, Lyole Sabat, Utari Gira, Gettle Dupre,
Uso Evin
Appearances: Mobile Suit V Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
Beam
bazooka
Beam
rifle
Beam
saber
Cockpit
Head
Gatling cannon
Gatling gun
Missile launcher 1
Missile launcher 2
Multi-bazooka
