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Model number: GAT-333
Code name: Raider Full Spec
Unit type: limited production transformable attack use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Earth Alliance
Operator(s): Earth Alliance; United States of South America
First deployment: C.E. 71
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Trans-Phase (TP) armor; sub-wing, held in flight by claws; 2 x propellant tank, mounted on sub-wing hardpoint
Fixed armaments: 2 x M2M3 76mm machine gun, mounted on shoulders, operable only in flight mode; 2 x M20 20mm machine gun, mounted on claws; 2 x GAU-8M2 52mm machine gun, mounted on wing hardpoint; 2 x AIM-957F “King Cobra” missile, mounted on shoulders
Optional hand armaments: none
The GAT-333 Raider Full Spec was a transformable aerial combat mobile suit produced by the Earth Alliance. Although the Raider Full Spec was designed first, it was built after the modified GAT-X370 Raider Gundam. Whereas the Raider Gundam was armed with beam weapons and operable in Earth and space, the Raider Full Spec was armed with non-beam weaponry and designed mainly for use on Earth. Like its counterpart, the Raider Full Spec was equipped with Trans-Phase armor, which activated upon impact to conserve energy. The Raider Full Spec carried a sub-wing held by its claws in flight mode. The sub-wing featured several hardpoints that could mount machine guns and extra propellant tanks.
The Raider Full Spec was tested by Edward Harrelson, who stole it and a GAT-X133 Sword Calamity after the Bloody Valentine War when he defected from the Alliance to fight for his homeland, the United States of South America. The Raider Full Spec was also secretly given to Orb’s noble Sahaku family by the Azrael Foundation. In the months after the war, the Alliance sent three Raider Full Spec units to attack Edward, but he destroyed them with his Sword Calamity in a battle recorded by photojournalist Jess Rabble. Later, Edward headed into space with his own Raider Full Spec and was attacked by Morgan Chevalier’s GAT-01A1+AQM/E-X04 Gunbarrel Dagger. Edward was defeated and pulled into Earth’s gravity well, but he used a piece of space garbage as a shield to survive atmospheric reentry.
Pilot: Edward Harrelson
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED MSV
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
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In between other things, I'm still translating interview material for an update to my Z Gundam production history. Here's the first of a few I'll be transcribing from the "Z Gundam Historica" series: http://www.ultimatemark.com/gundam/production/zgundam_historica.html
Very cool Kitazume illustration on the back cover of his "Light Pink" art book. Arguably an art book that represents Kitazume at his ultimate peak.
What's cool about this is that it is a piece illustrated by Kitazume that crosses over characters from L-GAIM, Zeta, ZZ and CCA.
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