MS-06 Zaku Atmospheric Reentry Test Type

Model number: MS-06
Code name: Zaku Atmospheric Reentry Test Type
Unit type: experimental mobile suit
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: super hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; atmospheric reentry wave shields; ceramic coating
Fixed armaments: unknown
Optional hand armaments: unknown

Late in the One Year War, the Earth Federation Forces produced the RX-78-2 Gundam, a mobile suit capable of independent atmospheric reentry. In response, Principality of Zeon engineers created the MS-06 Zaku Atmospheric Reentry Test Type. The Test Type mounted wave shields on its back, vernier thrusters all over its body, and attitude control boosters. To avoid a temperature rise inside the body, it was entirely covered with a ceramic coating, and its inner parts were equipped with a cooling system.

First appearance: MSV90
Original mechanical designer: Tatsuya Tomosugi

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