Model number(s): MSA-0120; MSA-120
Code name: Draig
Unit type: prototype high performance mobile suit
Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics
Operator: civilians
Rollout: UC 0111
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 15.0 meters
Weight: empty 17.5 metric tons; max gross 54.1 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3,040 kW (normal mode) or 6,800 kW (mega boost mode)
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 180,000 kg (normal mode) or 230,000 kg (mega boost mode) total
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; evaporative applique armor; mega boost
Fixed armaments: beam saber, stored in recharge rack in unknown location, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: high impact gun; hyper mega launcher
In UC 110, the EFF initiated the Advanced Tactical Mobile Suit (ATMS) project to select its next mainline mobile suit. Anaheim Electronics had previously developed the RGM-109 Heavygun as a miniaturized mobile suit, but SNRI was dissatisfied with the design. Anaheim then redesigned the Heavygun into a new prototype, the MSA-0120 Draig. Due to political sensitivities regarding the image of Gundams as a symbol of the anti-establishment, the Draig featured a non-moveable monoeye similar to the RMS-099 Rick Dias. The Draig could increase the output of its reactor via energy CAP for a “mega boost” that temporarily increased its mobility. It was also equipped with evaporative applique armor, a composite of anti-beam materials. Its armaments included a beam saber, a hyper mega launcher and a high impact gun, a Minovsky acceleration weapon that was more powerful than a railcannon. In UC 0111, the Draig participated in mock combat against the F90 Gundam F90 and was soundly defeated, which resulted in the latter suit being selected by the EFF as the winner of the ATMS project. Four years later, one Draig unit, piloted by the mysterious Cypher, attacked the EFF’s Fastest Formula team on multiple occasions.
Pilot(s): Veronica Vernon, William C. Orlando, Cypher (aka Yuri Minovsky)
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula
Original mechanical designer: Kazumi Fujita
Note: Fujita’s then-unnamed MSA-0120 originally appeared in Cyber Comix magazine in 1990.
F90 Fastest Formula Info
Writer:
Nobuyoshi Ino
Artist:
Kiyoshi Konoya
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kunio Okawara
Yasuhiro Moriki
Character Designer:
Sejoon Kim
Format:
11 volumes
Manga Release:
Japan 08.xx.2019 – 04.xx.2024
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