Model number:Â MS-06RD-4
Code name:Â Zaku II RD-4 Type (aka High Mobility Prototype)
Unit type:Â prototype space combat mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â Zimmad Company
Operator:Â Principality of Zeon
Rollout:Â UC 0079
First deployment:Â UC 0079
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â head height 18.0 meters
Weight:Â empty 60.3 metric tons; max gross 77.5 metric tons
Armor materials:Â super hard steel alloy
Powerplant:Â Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 986 kW
Propulsion:Â rocket thrusters: 53,000 kg total
Performance:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range 3,200 meters
Fixed armaments:Â none
Optional hand armaments:Â 120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum; heat hawk, battery powered, can be carried on waist armor storage racks
Requiring test data for its in-development space combat MS-09R Rick Dom, Zimmad Company modified a standard MS-06F Zaku II with a pair of larger, thruster-laden legs to increase its performance and simulate the characteristics of the Rick Dom. This unit was piloted by Aina Sahalin, but was destroyed during a test flight near Earth while fighting – much to everyone’s surprise – by a RB-79K Ball Type K on October 6, UC 0079. Fortunately for Zimmad, Aina managed to escape from the destroyed mobile suit with her test flight data intact.
Pilot: Aina Sahalin
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team
Original mechanical designer(s):Â Kimitoshi Yamane (08th M.S. Team version), Hajime Katoki (Gundam: The Origin MSDÂ version)
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Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team Info
Director(s):
Takeyuki Kanda
Umanosuke Iida
Writer(s):
Akira Okeya
Hiroaki Kitajima
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kunio Okawara
Hajime Katoki
Kimitoshi Yamane
Character Designer(s):
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Tomoaki Kado
Musical Composer:
Kouhei Tanaka
Format:
12 episodes; 1 compilation movie
Video Release:
Japan 01.25.1996 – 07.25.1999
U.S. 07.03.2001 – 01.22.2002
Theatrical Release:
Japan 08.01.1998
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Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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