MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai

MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai

General and Technical Data

Model number: MS-06FZ
Code name: Zaku II Kai
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 56.2 metric tons; max gross 74.5 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium/ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 976 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 3 x 24500 kg, 2 x 3000 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 14
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.07 G; 180-degree turn time 1.6 seconds; maximum ground running speed 103 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional fixed armaments: 3-slot grenade rack, carries standard high-explosive/fragmentation or smoke/hide grenades, mounted on waist armor rack
Optional hand armaments: MMP-80 90mm machine gun, clip-fed, 32 rounds per drum, spare clips can be stored on waist armor racks, with attached grenade launcher, 1 round; heat hawk, battery powered, can be stored on waist armor rack; sturm faust, rocket-propelled warhead, can be stored on waist armor storage racks

Technical and Historical Notes

Late during the One Year War, the Principality of Zeon military starts its "United Maintenance Plan" to upgrade and improve existing mobile suit designs and to make its own manufacturing capabilities more streamlined by incorporating similar parts and systems in several different mobile suit lines. One of the mobile suit types to be redesigned under this plan is the venerable MS-06F Zaku II, which has been serving Zeon since the early days of the war. The new MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai, with an improved type of cockpit and greatly increased thruster acceleration, is a tremendous improvement over the standard F-type in terms of speed and maneuverability. However, one drawback to the increased performance is that the Zaku II Kai's operational time was reduced by half, as it uses fuel twice as fast due to the added thrust. And due to its late introduction into the war, only a small number of Zaku II Kais are produced, with some operating in the skirmishes against the Federation Forces stationed in the Side 6 area in December UC 0079. Nearly 20 years after the One Year War, Zeon remnants use the Zaku II Kai as part of an attack on Australia's Torrington Base in UC 0096.

Miscellaneous Information

Lineart

"B-type" helmet
Cockpit
Cockpit hatch
Grenade
MMP-80 90mm machine gun
Sturm faust