MS-06R-2 Zaku II High Mobility Type

	Johnny Ridden colors (MSV)	Gabby Hazard colors (MSV)	Robert Gilliam colors (MSV)	Kurt Roswell colors (Spirits of Zeon)

Model number: MS-06R-2
Code name: Zaku II High Mobility Type
Unit type: prototype high mobility space combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 18.0 meters; head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 49.5 metric tons; max gross 75.0 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1340 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 60000 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.80 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 5600 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armor racks; 280mm Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine, can be stored on rack on rear waist armor; heat hawk, battery powered, can be stored on waist armor rack

The appearance of the Earth Federation Forces' beam weapon-carrying mobile suit prototypes in September UC 0079 forces the Principality of Zeon to make some serious changes in its mobile suit development programs. One of these programs is the MS-11 Act Zaku, an intended replacement for the aging space combat MS-06F Zaku II. As the MS-11 project is cancelled and reorganized into development for the MS-14 Gelgoog, Zeon needs a temporary improvement in its spaceborne mobile suit forces until the Gelgoog can begin production. The result is the MS-06R-2 Zaku II High Mobility Type, based on the MS-06R-2P. An improvement over the MS-06R-1A, the R-2 features lighter construction materials, better armored legs, and extra propellant storage. However, it does incorporate the R-1A's less-powerful reactor, and thus can't use beam weapons. Only four units are constructed, but soon the design loses out to Zimmad Company's space combat-revision mobile suit, the MS-09R Rick Dom. Three units are placed into combat, assigned to ace pilots Johnny Ridden, Gabby Hazard and Robert Gilliam, with the fourth unit assigned to the lunar Granada base for continued testing.

Pilot(s): Johnny Ridden, Gabby Hazard, Robert Gilliam, Elliot Rem, Kurt Roswell
Appearances: MSV (Mobile Suit Variations); Mobile Suit Gundam: Outer Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space; Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilot's Locus; Mobile Suit Gundam: Spirits of Zeon ~Dual Stars of Carnage~; MS-X
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
Note: "Gabby Hazard colors" custom lineart by v_zubko