MS-05Q Norris Packard’s Zaku I

Model number: MS-05Q
Code name: Norris Packard’s Zaku I
Unit type: general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
Rollout: UC 0078
First deployment: UC 0078
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 54.8 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: super hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: total output unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x spiked knuckle, mounted on hands
Optional hand armaments: 120mm machine gun; Zaku bazooka; heat hawk

By UC 0078, the Principality of Zeon was already producing the MS-06C Zaku II, but it also launched an upgrade program for the aging MS-05B Zaku I that resulted in a new model, the MS-05Q. Many pilots preferred their existing units, which were upgraded with new reactors and other features. The original plan was to convert 240 units to the MS-05Q revision, but only 162 were converted due to priority being assigned to the construction of new machines. Near the end of the One Year War, a second run of fewer than 30 units were upgraded to MS-05Q. One MS-05Q unit was used by pilot Norris Packard and featured custom knuckle spikes for close combat. In February UC 0079, Packard conducted the first of a series of missions to attack Earth Federation Forces fuel transport fleets.

Pilot: Norris Packard
First appearance: MSV-R
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

120mm machine gun

Rear view

Zaku bazooka