GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam

Model number: GFAS-X1
Code name: Destroy Gundam
Unit type: heavy assault mobile suit
Manufacturer: Adukurf Mechano-Industries
Operator(s): Earth Alliance; Blue Cosmos
First deployment: C.E. 73
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 38.07 meters (mobile suit mode); overall height 56.30 meters (mobile suit mode)
Weight: max gross weight 404.93 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x “Aufprall Dreizehn” high-energy beam cannon, mounted on backpack, operable only in attack mode; 200mm “Zorn Mk2” energy cannon, mounted in head; “Nefertem 503” thermal plasma composite cannon (mounts 20 x circumference beam cannon), mounted across backpack; 4 x “Igelstellung” 75mm automatic CIWS, mounted in head; 3 x 1580mm multi-phase energy cannon “Super Scylla,” mounted in torso; 2 x “Sturm Faust” detachable arm; 4 x Mark 62 6-tube multipurpose missile launcher, mounted on main body; “Schneidschutz” SX1021 positron reflector shield; 2 x MJ-1703 5-barrel beam cannon, mounted in hands
Optional hand armaments: none

As its name implied, the GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam was designed for a single purpose: massive destruction. At more than triple the height of the average mobile suit, the Destroy Gundam was closer to a mobile fortress than a mobile suit. Nearly every part of the Destroy Gundam was equipped with a weapon. Armaments included head cannons, detachable arm cannons, chest cannons, missile launchers and a positron reflector shield. When transformed into attack mode, additional armaments included two high-energy beam cannons, and the backpack was lined with 20 beam cannons. At least 10 Destroy Gundam units were built for use by Logos, the secret organization that controlled the Earth Alliance. The first unit, used by artificially enhanced Extended pilot Stella Loussier, was sent to destroy Berlin in retaliation for Europe sympathizing with ZAFT. That unit was destroyed by Kira Yamato’s ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, but only after heavy damage was inflicted upon Berlin. Soon after, ZAFT initiated Operation Ragnarok and attacked Heavens Base, the Alliance’s supreme headquarters in Iceland. Five Destroy Gundam units launched to protect the base, but they were all destroyed in combat by Minerva Gundam pilots Shinn Asuka, Rey Za Burrel and Lunamaria Hawke. A Destroy Gundam was also used by an Orb pilot working under the command of the Phantom Pain unit, but it was destroyed by Ergnes Brahe’s MMF-JG73L Turn Δ. Later, after the Requiem cannon destroyed several PLANTs, ZAFT attacked the Alliance’s Daedalus lunar base and was again confronted by three more Destroy Gundam units, which were destroyed by Shinn and Rey. In C.E. 75, the anti-Coordinator terrorist group Blue Cosmos used a Destroy Gundam for attacks against PLANT-allied cities in Africa.

Pilot(s): Stella Loussier, Sting Oakley, Vanfeldt Ria Lindsay
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

“Aufprall Dreizehn” high-energy beam cannon

Head

MJ-1703 5-barrel beam cannon

Rear view (Normal mode)

Rear view (Attack mode)

“Sturm Faust” detachable arm

Torso