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YMS-08A
High Mobility Type
Model number: YMS-08A Code name: High Mobility Prototype Unit type: experimental mobile suit Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon (field engineers) Operator: Principality of Zeon First deployment: UC 0079 Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso Dimensions: head height 17.7 meters Weight: empty 55.7 metric tons; max gross weight unknown Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rating unknown Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output unknown Fixed armaments: none Optional fixed armaments: shield, mounted on left forearm Optional hand armaments: 120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum; heat hawk, battery powered
While Zeonic Company was developing their YMS-07A Prototype Gouf to replace the aging MS-06J Zaku II during the Universal Century Era's One Year War, the military engineers of Zeon's Earth Attack Force was also working on their own competing land combat mobile suit design. Their YMS-08A, known simply as the "High Mobility Prototype," was similar in many respects to Zeonic's Prototype Gouf, including the advantageous new leg thrusters to make possible jet-assisted jumps. Eight units were built for testing, but their cost proved too high for the limited increase in performance they demonstrated, and its development was later merged into Zeonic's Prototype Gouf development program, with the eight YMS-08As eventually being relegated to combat duty.
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