MS-06V-8 Zaku Tank “Wild Boar”

Model number: MS-06V-8
Code name: Zaku Tank “Wild Boar”
Unit type: artillery mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company/Principality of Zeon field engineers
Operator: Principality of Zeon
Rollout: UC 0079
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 12.0 meters
Weight: max gross 78.4 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: 2 x engine-driven caterpillar tread: maximum speed unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; manipulator, mounted on right arm
Fixed armaments: 3-barrel 33mm machine gun, mounted on lower tank body; 2 x 105mm machine gun, mounted on left arm; 2 x shield, mounted on shoulders
Optional hand armaments: none

Zeon field engineers created the MS-06V Zaku Tank as a stopgap machine for combat units in need of replacement mobile suits. The Zaku Tank was originally introduced on the African front, and the variant MS-06V-8 Zaku Tank “Wild Boar” was deployed to Northern Europe. The V-8 equipped a twin Zaku machine gun as its left arm, and the large magazine rack on its back could carry about 3.5 times as much ammunition as a standard magazine. The V-8’s added weight gave it a stable base for firing its weapons. However, the downside was that the V-8 is only about 70 percent as fast as the HT-01B Magella Attack. The V-8 was produced with several types of camouflage, including off-white winter colors, a three-color jungle scheme and forest green.

First appearance: MSV-R
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

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