XM-01 Den'an Zon


General and Technical Data

Model number: XM-01
Code name: Den'an Zon
Unit type: close combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Crossbone Vanguard
Operator: Crossbone Vanguard
First deployment: UC 0123
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 14.0 meters
Weight: empty 7.9 metric tons; max gross 17.4 metric tons
Armor materials: titanium alloy/high-ceramic composite
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3880 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 3 x 17310 kg, 2 x 8520 kg, 4 x 4460 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 84
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 3.99 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; beam flag emitter, mounted on backpack
Fixed armaments: 2-barrel beam gun, mounted on left forearm; beam shield, mounted on left forearm; beam saber, recharge rack/storage location unknown, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: shot lancer with mounted 2-barrel heavy machine gun


Technical and Historical Notes

The first mobile suit to be mass produced by the Crossbone Vanguard, the XM-01 Den'an Zon was designed to specialize in close combat inside space colonies. Despite its compact size, the Den'an Zon was faster and more maneuverable than most of the mobile suits used by the Earth Federation Forces in the early UC 0120s. The Den'an Zon incorporated many advanced new technologies developed by the Crossbone Vanguard, including the highly effective beam shield for defense and the piledriver-like "shot lancer" weapon for melee combat. Den'an Zons, being the basic unit produced in the most numbers, was typically assigned to low-ranking soldiers, though its design would serve as the basis for the more well-rounded XM-02 Den'an Gei and reconnaissance XM-03 Ebirhu-S mobile suits.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot: Morris O'Barry
Appearances:
Mobile Suit Gundam F91; Mobile Suit Gundam Silhouette Formula 91 in UC 0123; Mobile Suit Gundam F91: Formula Wars 0122; Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

Lineart

Shot lancer