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MS-06R-2P
Zaku II High Mobility Test Type
Model number: MS-06R-2P Code name: Zaku II High Mobility Test Type Unit type: mobile suit Manufacturer: Zeonic Company Operator: Principality of Zeon First deployment: UC 0079 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters Weight: empty weight unknown; max gross 76.8 metric tons Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rating unknown Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output unknown Fixed armaments: none
As Zeon worked to upgrade or replace its aging MS-06 Zaku II line during the One Year War of the Universal Century Era, their intended replacement for the space-use MS-06F was a new high-performance model with the model number MS-11. As development of the MS-11 continued, a MS-06R-1A Zaku II High Mobility Type was heavily modified to serve as a testbed unit for the MS-11's development team. Incorporating the MS-11's powerful reactor and cooling system, this testbed MS-06R-2P could use beam weapons. The R-2P unit was so heavily and continually modified over its service life that it earned the nickname "MS-06R-3 Zaku III." However, the appearance of the Earth Federation Forces' RX-78-2 Gundam, operating with superb performance and carrying its own hand-held beam weapons, forced the Zeon engineers to re-think their own design concept. The MS-11 project was scrapped and restarted as the design project for the more ambitious MS-14 Gelgoog. The MS-11 model number, now no longer being used, was later assigned to the Pezun Project's Acht Zaku.
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MSV
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