ZGMF-X3000Q Providence ZAKU

Model number: ZGMF-X3000Q
Code name: Providence ZAKU
Unit type: experimental mobile suit
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
Operator(s): ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact hyper deuterion nuclear reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: none
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x shield, connects to folding shoulder armor; MA-M8 beam tomahawk, stored inside shoulder shield, hand-carried in use
Optional hand armaments: MA-BAR76T high-energy beam rifle
Remote weapons: DRAGOON (Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network) system, mounts 2 x beam spike equipment type, stored on backpack and 8 x general type, mounted on backpack and waist

The ZGMF-X3000Q Providence ZAKU was an experimental mobile suit that combined the weaponry of the ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam and the heavily modified frame from a ZGMF-1001 ZAKU Phantom. Powered by a hyper deuterion reactor, the Providence ZAKU’s main armament was the DRAGOON (Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network) remote weaponry featured on the Providence Gundam. However, its backpack was redesigned, and it featured new beam spike equipment type DRAGOONs that were later featured on the ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam. The Providence ZAKU also carried a standard beam rifle, and its shoulder armor could fold downward to mount a pair of ZAKU Phantom shoulder shields. Only one prototype unit was constructed, and it was destroyed in early C.E. 74 during the final battle of the Second Bloody Valentine War by an Orb MVF-M12A Ootsukigata.

Pilot: Rinna Sera Yasaka
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY MSV
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

MA-BAR76T high-energy beam rifle

MA-M8 beam tomahawk

Rear view (Equipped with DRAGOONs)

Rear view (Base mobile suit)