UMF-5 ZnO

Model number: UMF-5
Code name: ZnO
Unit type: mass production transformable amphibious mobile suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
Operator: ZAFT
First deployment: C.E. 70
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 21.37 meters
Weight: max gross weight 69.42 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 2 x phonon maser high energy cannon, mounted on hands; 2 x 533mm 6-tube missile launcher, mounted on chest
Optional hand armaments: none

ZAFT designs various mobile suits to attain supremacy over Earth during the Bloody Valentine War. The UMF-5 ZnO was one of two suits designed specifically for amphibious combat, along with the UMF-4A GOOhN. As an aquatic unit, the ZnO specialized in high-speed maneuverability and could transform into a swim mode to travel at high speeds and ram enemy mobile suits or vessels. The ZnO’s armament consisted of hand-mounted phonon maser cannons, which were high-powered lasers that could travel through water. Other armaments included two 6-tube missile launchers mounted on the ZnO’s chest. In combat, ZnOs were usually deployed from Vosgulov class submarines and operated in conjunction with GOOhNs and on occasion the UWMF-1/S GINN WASP Type. ZnOs were widely used across Earth’s oceans, and many units participated in Operation Spit Break, ZAFT’s unsuccessful attack on the Earth Alliance’s JOSH-A base in Alaska.

Pilot: Marco Morassim
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

533mm 6-tube missile launcher

Hand

Rear view (Mobile suit mode)

Rear view (Mobile armor mode)