Model
number:
MSM-04
Code name: Acguy
Unit type: mass production amphibious mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; civilians
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 19.2 meters
Weight: empty 91.6 metric tons; max gross 129.0 metric
tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rated at 1870 kW
Propulsion: hydrojet thrusters: 109000 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.85 G; maximum
water speed 53 knots
Equipment
and design features: Forearms interchangeable
Fixed armaments: 4 x 105mm vulcan gun, fire-linked,
mounted in head; 6-tube rocket launcher, mounted on forearm;
mega particle cannon, mounted inforearm;
1x machine gun, replaces mega particle cannon, mounted in forearm
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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Following
the Zimmad Company's first successful amphibious mobile suit,
the MSM-03 Gogg, the Zeonic Company
came back with its own original design. Using many internal
parts from a standard MS-06F Zaku,
the company produced the MSM-04 Acguy. Even with two Zaku
powerplants, the heat signatures produced by the Acguy were
relatively low compared to most other amphibious mobile suits
from the One Year War. This lent the Acguy a stealthiness that
made it perfect for covert operations. Zeon's Commander Char
Aznable led a squadron of soldiers in Acguy mobile suits during
a mission to destroy the mobile suit factory inside the Earth
Federation's underground Jaburo base on 30 November UC 0079.
Though the demolition mission was a failure, the Acguy did prove
its usefulness by allowing Char's troops to succesfully infiltrate
the base undetected. The Acguy's armament also proved something
of a surprise to the Federation: in addition to head-mounted
vulcan guns and rocket launchers in the left arm, what appeared
to be more rocket launchers in the right arm were actually extendable
claws. Topped off by a mega particle cannon, the right arm could
also extend out, making it a useful punching or striking weapon.
This is just standard loadout, as the forearms are interchangeable.
Thus, there are some Acguys with rocket launcers in the right
arm. Some have been seen to have machine guns instead of mega
particle cannons, but that is most likely just an 'in-field'
modification..
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot(s):
Craft, Ivanov, Akahana (aka Red Nose), Ramge, Haman Karn
Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam;
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th
MS Team; Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ;
Mobile Suit Gundam Side
Story: MS Generation; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079; Gundam:
The Battle Master/Gundam Battle Assault; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo; Mobile
Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles;
Gundam Battle Assault
2; Mobile Suit Gundam Ex Revue; Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield; Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilot's Locus; Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
Original mechanical designer(s): Kunio Okawara (original
version), Kimitoshi Yamane (08th MS Team version)
Claw
