Model number: N/A
Code name: 
Samson
Unit type:
 mobile suit transport truck
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Earth Federation Forces
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: 1 driver in cab in Samson Top
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x 2-barrel machine gun, mounted on Samson Top

The Samson was a mobile suit transport truck used by the Principality of Zeon on Earth during the One Year War in UC 0079. The Samson had a carrying capacity of one mobile suit. The truck’s cab, called the Samson Top, could detach and function as an attack hovercraft armed with a pair of 2-barrel machine guns. During the war, Ramba Ral’s forces used a Samson to transport his MS-07B Gouf through a neutral desert town.

First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam
Original mechanical designer:
Kunio Okawara

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Mobile Suit Gundam Info

Director(s):
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Ryoji Fujiwara (movie 1)

Writer(s):
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Masaru Yamamoto
Kenichi Matsuzaki
Yoshihisa Araki
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama

Mechanical Designer(s):
Kunio Okawara
Yoshiyuki Tomino

Character Designer:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Musical Composer(s):
Yuji Matsuyama
Takeo Watanabe

Format:
43 episodes; 3 compilation movies

Airdates:
Japan 04.07.1979 – 01.26.1980
U.S. 07.23.2001 – 09.12.2001

Theatrical Release:
Japan 03.14.1981 – 03.13.1982

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