MS-08TX Efreet

Model number: MS-08TX
Code name: Efreet
Unit type: limited production ground combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon Earth Attack Force
Operator: Principality of Zeon
Rollout: UC 0079
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.2 meters
Weight: empty 59.4 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: super hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1,072 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 62,000 kg total
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: none
Optional fixed armaments: 3-barrel Gatling gun, mounts on left forearm; smoke dischargers, mounted on main body
Optional hand armaments: shotgun, uses 00 buckshot with 42mm pellets; heat saber; heat lancer; giant bazooka

The MS-08TX Efreet was a ground combat mobile suit developed by the Principality of Zeon’s Earth Attack Force. Only eight units were produced before the Zeon military determined that Zimmad’s MS-09 Dom was the superior ground combat mobile suit. The Efreet’s base armaments included a shotgun and heat saber, although some units featured additional weapons. A unit in the default configuration piloted by Henry Boone of the Wolf Gar team fought against the Earth Federation Forces’ RX-78XX Gundam Pixy. Other Efreet units were modified to create custom versions, including the EXAM-equipped MS-08TX Efreet Custom, the stealth MS-08TX/N Efreet Nacht, the sniper-use MS-08TX[NF] Efreet Jäger and the close combat MS-08TX/S Efreet Schneid. Some of these custom units were used by Zeon remnants after the end of the One Year War, with the Efreet Schneid being active as late as UC 0096.

Pilot(s): Henry Boone, Doug Schneid, Helena Hegel
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079
Original mechanical designer(s): Kunio Okawara (Cross Dimension 0079 version), Kyoshi Takigawa (Gundam Side Stories version)

Head (Version 1)

Heat saber (Version 1)

Rear view (Version 1)