ZGMF-1027M Duel Blitz Gundam

General and Technical Data

Model number: ZGMF-1027M
Code name: Duel Blitz Gundam
Unit type: long-distance artillery mobile suit
Manufacturer: ZAFT (based on a design by Morgenroete, Inc.)
Operator: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
First deployment: C.E. 75
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 17.5 meters
Weight: max gross weight 71.08 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; PS (Phase Shift) armor; Assault Shroud armor
Fixed armaments: 2 x “Igelstellung” 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, mounted in head; MA-M1600/D2 high-energy beam cannon, mounted on right shoulder of Assault Shroud armor; MA-M99E “Magna Sectio” beam saber, mounted on left shoulder of Assault Shroud armor, hand-carried in use; XM53S piercer lock “Gleipnir II”, mounted on left forearm of Assault Shroud armor; AIM-627G automatic guided mid-range anti-air missile (AGMRAAM) “Torrens”, mounted on left shoulder of Assault Shroud armor; XM61 “Lancer Dart II” hypervelocity kinetic energy penetrator, mounted on right forearm; MA-M1600/D2 high-energy beam cannon, mounted on right shoulder of Assault Shroud armor, folds out in use or can detach and hand-carried
Optional fixed armaments (docked with METEOR): 2 x 120cm high-energy beam cannon; 2 x 93.7cm high-energy beam cannon; 2 x MA-X200 beam sword; 77 x 60cm “Erinaceus” anti-ship missile launchers (22 per pod, 12 per arm unit, 9 on tail fin)
Optional hand armaments: 57mm high-energy beam rifle, features 175mm grenade launcher

Technical and Historical Notes

The ZGMF-1027M Duel Blitz Gundam was an upgraded version of the original GAT-X102 Duel Gundam that ZAFT stole from the Earth Alliance during the First Bloody Valentine War in C.E. 71. The aging suit was slated to be scrapped until it was secretly acquired by politician Eileen Canaver and sent to the asteroid base Boaz for modernization. Upgrades included replacing the Earth Alliance-style cockpit with one from the ZGMF-1000 ZAKU Warrior, as well as replacing the battery with a nuclear reactor. Its armaments and defensive systems were overhauled, including the mounting of a new Assault Shroud (which ZAFT originally developed to upgrade the relatively basic Duel Gundam). Weapons included the original’s vulcan guns and beam rifle, along with a new high-energy beam cannon, beam saber and 2-tube missile launcher. It was also armed with lancer darts and a grappling claw inspired by the GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam. As a result of its overhaul, the newly renamed Duel Blitz Gundam was assigned a new ZAFT model number. In C.E. 75, original Duel Gundam pilot Yzak Joule reclaimed the Duel Blitz Gundam and used it to combat an extremist ZAFT faction that carried out a coup d’etat to side with the Kingdom of Foundation’s plot to again impose the Destiny Plan on the world.

Miscellaneous Information

Pilot: Yzak Joule
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

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