Model
number: MS-07H-4
Code name: Gouf Flight Test Type
Unit type: prototype ground combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.8 meters
Weight: empty 65.2 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor,
output rating unknown
Propulsion: rocket thrusters/thermonuclear jet engines:
total output unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x 5-barrel 75mm machine gun, clip-fed,
barrels are mounted as hand fingers
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Technical
and Historical Notes
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During the
One Year War, the Zeon military attempted to develop an atmospheric
flight-capable mobile suit tto complement its ground-based mobile
suit forces. The first prototype model developed under this
program was the MS-07H Gouf Flight Test
Type, but during its scheduled two-week test flight schedule,
one problem after another arose, and the Goufs
were redesigned and rebuilt in the field. After four weeks of
delays and botched test flights, the last Gouf Flight Type unit,
a single MS-07H-4 piloted by Frank Bellnarl, was equipped with
a set of new high-performance jet engines. However, after ten
days of test flights in the new model, the H-4-type experience
engine problems and exploded in mid-air, killing Bellnarl. Zeon's
flight-type mobile suit development program was then immediately
cancelled.
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Miscellaneous
Information
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Pilot:
Frank Bellnarl
Appearances: MSV
(Mobile Suit Variations)
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara