MS-06RD-4 Zaku II

Model number: MS-06RD-4
Code name: Zaku II
Unit type: prototype space combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zimmad Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 60.3 metric tons; max gross 77.5 metric tons
Armor materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 986 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 53000 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.68 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum; heat hawk, battery powered, can be carried on waist armor storage racks

Requiring test data for its in-development space combat MS-09R Rick Dom, Zimmad Company modifies a standard MS-06F Zaku II with a pair of larger, thruster-laden legs to increase its performance and simulate the characteristics of the Rick Dom. This unit is piloted by Aina Sahalin, but is destroyed during a test flight near Earth while fighting - much to everyone's surprise - by a RB-79K Ball on October 6, UC 0079. Fortunately for Zimmad, Aina manages to escape from the destroyed mobile suit with her test flight data intact.

Pilot: Aina Sahalin
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team; Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilot's Locus
Original mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane

120mm machine gun
Heat hawk