RGM-79C Powered GM

Model number: RGM-79C
Code name: Powered GM
Unit type: test use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Earth Federation Forces
Operator: Earth Federation Forces
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 18.5 meters; head height 18.0 meters
Weight: empty 46.6 metric tons; max gross 64.2 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium/ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1650 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 32000 kg, 4 x 1870 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.11 G; 180-degree turn time 1.6 seconds
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 6000 meters
Fixed armaments: 2 x 60mm vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; beam saber, power rated at 0.38 MW, stored in recharge rack in backpack, hand-carried in use
Optional fixed armaments: shield, mounted on either forearm
Optional hand armaments: 90mm machine gun, clip-fed, 20 rounds per clip, 2 spare clips stored in shield; 360mm hyper bazooka, clip-fed, 7 rounds per clip plus 1 round in chamber

As the Earth Federation Forces rebuilds its military power in the years following the One Year War, it uses existing RGM-79C GM Kai units to serve as testbeds for developing technologies to be incorporated into new mobile suit designs. One such unit is the RGM-79C Powered GM, a heavily-modified GM Kai built to test parts and systems for the Gundam Development Project. It mounts a heavy, powerful backpack that provides it with incredible thrust and acceleration, and is equipped with improved shock absorbers in the legs. Because the GM Kai is built for efficiency and is never designed with this kind of equipment and performance in mind, the control systems for the backpack and other improvements are placed in external "boxes" on the Powered GM's armor, making it appear more heavily armored than it actually is. One Powered GM undergoing testing at Australia's Torrington Base in late UC 0083 is destroyed in pursuit of the stolen RX-78GP02A Gundam "Physalis".

Pilot: Dick Allen
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki

360mm hyper bazooka
Beam saber
Cockpit
HFW-GR-MR82-90mm machine gun
Shield