Model number:Â YMAF-X6BD
Code name:Â Zamza-Zah
Unit type:Â experimental attack use mobile armor
Manufacturer:Â Adukurf Mechano-Industries
Operator:Â Earth Alliance
First deployment:Â C.E. 73
Accommodation:Â one pilot and two gunners, in cockpit in main body
Dimensions:Â overall length 47.13 meters (claws extended); overall height unknown
Weight:Â max gross weight 526.45 metric tons
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 4 x M534 “Gamzatov” multi-phase energy cannon, operable only when hyper-oscillation crushers are retracted; 4 x GAU111 cannon, mounted over legs; 4 x Mk79 low-pressure gun, mounted on main body; 4 x XM518 “Vasiliev” hyper-oscillation crusher, retractable, mounted on legs; 16 x 75mm automatic multi-barrel CIWS “Igelstellung,” 4 mounted on each leg; positron reflector shield
During the Bloody Valentine War, the Earth Alliance was slow to introduce mobile suits as replacements for the aging mobile armor TS-MA2 Moebius. Even after developing their own mobile suits, the Alliance continued to experiment with mobile armor designs, such as the YMAF-X6BD Zamza-Zah. The crab-like Zamza-Zah dwarfed the fighter-like Moebius and was operated by one pilot and two gunners. The Zamza-Zah was heavily armed with a wide array of weapons, including four energy cannons, four claw-like hyper-oscillation crushers, four cannons, four low-pressure guns and 16 CIWS guns. In addition to these armaments, the Zamza-Zah was also equipped with a powerful positron deflector shield, capable of blocking a direct shot from a battleship-level positron cannon. During the early stages of the Second Bloody Valentine War in late C.E. 73, the Alliance deployed a Zamza-Zah unit to attack the ZAFT battleship Minerva after it left the territorial waters of the Orb Union. The Zamza-Zah was ultimately destroyed at close range with a beam saber attack from Shinn Asuka’s ZGMF-X56S/α Force Impulse Gundam. Months later, the Alliance deployed more Zamza-Zah units at their Daedalus lunar base and near the Requiem cannon’s FaurĂ© relay station.
First appearance:Â Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
N/A
Director:
Mitsuo Fukuda
Writer(s):
Chiaki Morosawa
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hiroshi Ohnogi
Kazuho Hyodo
Shigeru Morita
Natsuko Takahashi
Yuuichi Nomura
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kunio Okawara
Kimitoshi Yamane
Character Designer:
Hisashi Hirai
Musical Composer:
Toshihiko Sahashi
Format:
50 episodes; 1 TV special; 4 compilation movies
Airdates (Original):
Japan 10.09.2004 – 12.25.2005
Airdates (HD Remaster):
Japan 04.xx.2013 – 03.xx.2014
Video Release (SE):
Japan 05.26.2006 – 02.23.2007
U.S. 06.17.2008 – 01.13.2009
MAHQ is now officially on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mahqdotnet.bsky.social.
Our future on this cursed app is unclear, but expect more posts over there.
Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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