Model number:Â GAT-04+AQM/E-X01
Code name: Aile Windam
Unit type:Â mass production all-purpose multi-mode mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â Earth Alliance
Operator:Â Earth Alliance
First deployment:Â C.E. 73
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â head height 18.67 meters
Weight:Â max gross weight 78.5 metric tons
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown; hardpoints for mounting Striker packs
Fixed armaments:Â 4 x M2M5 “Todesschrecken” 12.5mm automatic CIWS, mounted in head; 2 x ES04B beam saber, mounted on hips, hand-carried in use; 2 x Mk315 “Stiletto” rocket-propelled anti-armor penetrator, stored in hip armor, hand-carried in use; A52 offensive shield type E (Mk438/B dual multipurpose missile “WĂĽrger” SA10), mounted on left arm
Optional fixed armaments:Â 2 x beam saber, stored on Aile pack, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments:Â M9409L beam rifle, power rating unknown
Introduced in C.E. 73, the Earth Alliance’s new mass production GAT-04 Windam was compatible with the Striker packs used by earlier generations of mobile suits. The GAT-04+AQME-X01 Aile Windam carried the same standard armaments, along with a pair of beam sabers mounted in the Aile pack.
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ASTRAY
Original mechanical designer:Â Kunio Okawara
Note: custom lineart by Red Zaku
N/A
Writer (Manga/Novel):
Tomohiro Chiba
Artist (Manga):
Koichi Tokita
Mechanical Designer(s):
Junichi Akutsu
Yoshihiko Machida
Format:
4 volumes (manga); 2 volumes (novel)
Manga Release:
Japan 09.25.2004 – 04.26.2006
Novel Release:
Japan 10.01.2004 – 06.01.2006
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Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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