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MS-07H-4
Gouf Flight Test Type
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
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.
Pilot:
Frank Bellnarl
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