GT-9600-D Gundam Leopard Destroy

Model number: GT-9600-D
Code name: Gundam Leopard Destroy
Unit type: heavy weapons mobile suit
Manufacturer: Vulture (based on a design by the United Nations Earth)
Operator: Vulture
First deployment: August A.W. 0015
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 16.8 meters
Weight: empty 8.6 metric metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: Luna Titanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: Flash System, allows Newtype pilot to remote-control FT-9600-GB GT-Bit mobile bits; sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x twin beam cylinder, mounted on backpack, fits over arms when deployed; 2 x Gatling gun, mounted in chest; 2 x hornet missile, mounted in knees; 11-tube missile launcher pod, mounted on left shoulder; 2 x beam cannon, mounted in head; beam knife, stored in recharge rack in right leg, hand-carried in use; 2-barrel beam cannon, mounted on right shoulder; 5 x beam cannon, mounted on right arm; 4 x multi-use launcher, mounted on pairs on shoulders
Optional hand armaments: none

During a battle against the New U.N.E.’s massive (and beam weapon-proof) NRX-010 Gable mobile suit, Roabea Loy’s GT-9600 Gundam Leopard was heavily damaged, as his was the only unit among the Freeden‘s mobile suit complement armed with a significant number of conventional, non-beam weapons. Following the battle, the Freeden‘s ever-resourceful mobile suit mechanic, young Kid Salsamille, set to work to rebuild Roabea’s suit. The refurbished unit was renamed GT-9600-D Gundam Leopard Destroy, and its weaponry loadout was overhauled, replacing many of its old conventional arms with a greater number of beam weapons. As a result, the Leopard Destroy’s armament was now considered more “well-balanced,” thus helping Roabea to better use his Gundam against the increasingly powerful New U.N.E. military.

Pilot: Roabea Loy
First appearance: After War Gundam X
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

Backpack

Head

Rear view

Twin beam cylinder