MSN-001 Delta Gundam

Model number: MSN-001
Code name: Delta Gundam
Unit type: prototype transformable attack use mobile suit
Manufacturer: Anaheim Electronics
Operator: Earth Federation Forces
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 19.6 meters
Weight: empty 32.5 metric tons; max gross 65.5 metric tons
Armor materials: Gundarium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 2,190 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 100,400 kg total
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 11,200 meters
Fixed armaments: 2 x 60mm vulcan gun, mounted in head
Optional fixed armaments: shield, mounted on left forearm in mobile suit mode, functions as nose in waverider mode; 2 x beam saber, stored in shield, function as beam guns in waverider mode, hand-carried in use in mobile suit mode
Optional hand armaments: beam rifle

In UC 0087, Anaheim Electronics designed multiple transformable mobile suits for the AEUG resistance group as part of Project Zeta. One of those designs, codenamed MSN-001 Delta Gundam, encountered difficulties with its transformation system and was subsequently reimagined as the non-transformable MSN-00100 Hyaku-Shiki. In the years following the Gryps War, Anaheim returned to the abandoned concept of the Delta Gundam, which was refined into a successfully transformable prototype, the MSN-001A1 Delta Plus. The Delta Gundam design was also used as a virtual enemy in computer simulated battles. This simulated version was armed with a pair of 60mm vulcan guns, a pair of beam sabers/guns, a beam rifle and a shield.

First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam UC MSV
Original mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki

Beam rifle

Rear view (Mobile suit mode)