YMS-16M Xamel

Model number: YMS-16M
Code name: Xamel
Unit type: prototype long-range support mobile suit
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon (Delaz Fleet)
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: one pilot and one gunner, in tandem-seat standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall height 27.0 meters
Weight: empty 75.0 metric tons; max gross 121.5 metric tons
Armor materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1080 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 6 x 10300 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.51 G; ground hovering speed 220 km/h
Fixed armaments: 680mm artillery cannon, barrel folds for transport, mounted on right shoulder; 20mm vulcan gun turret, mounted in head; 8-tube missile launcher, mounted on left shoulder

Designed late during the One Year War, the YMS-16M Xamel is the first true heavy artillery mobile suit, designed to operate as a mobile artillery gun battery. Equipped with a powerful hovercraft/hoverjet system in its legs and massive skirt armor, it can skim along the ground at high speed, giving it the ability to fire, move to another location, set up and fire again without giving away its position too easily. Its primary armament is its long-barreled 680mm cannon, which can be folded up for transport when not in use. It also mounts a missile launcher pod for medium-range fire, but its close-combat abilities are extremely limited, with only a pair of almost useless arms and a 20mm vulcan gun turret mounted in the head. The Xamel also features a tandem-seat cockpit, crewed by a pilot and a gunner. It is unknown exactly how many of these prototype units are produced, although one Xamel is used by Delaz Fleet forces in its Operation Stardust theft of the RX-78GP02A Gundam "Physalis" prototype from the Earth Federation Forces in October UC 0083, inflicting severe damage to the Torrington Base in Australia.

Pilot: Bob
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory; Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles; Mobile Suit Gundam: Advanced Operation; Mobile Suit Gundam: The Return of Zeon; Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight; Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record UC 0081; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next; Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs.
Original mechanical designer(s): Hajime Katoki (principal design), Kimitoshi Yamane (cleanup)

680mm cannon
Cockpit