Model number:Â ZGMF-X999A
Code name:Â ZAKU Mass Production Trial Type
Unit type:Â pre-production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer:Â Integrated Design Bureau
Operator:Â ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
First deployment:Â December C.E. 71
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â unknown
Weight:Â unknown
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â ultracompact nuclear fission reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown; Phase Shift (PS) armor; Neutron Jammer Canceler
Fixed armaments:Â 2 x large caliber railgun, mounted on hips; 2 x DFX25 high frequency blade tomahawk, stored on backpack, hand-carried in use; shoulder shield, connected to left arm
Optional hand armaments:Â none
Soon after the end of the Bloody Valentine War, ZAFT began developing its next generation of mass production mobile suits. The ZGMF-X999A ZAKU Mass Production Trial Type was an early design in the New Millennium series. The trial ZAKU was equipped with a Neutron Jammer Canceler, which was first used during the war by the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam and the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam. In addition, the trial ZAKU was equipped with Phase Shift armor. Its armaments included a pair of hip-mounted railguns and a pair of high frequency blade tomahawks. In December C.E. 71, a trial ZAKU undergoing testing in South America by civilian test pilot Courtney Hieronymus was attacked by the Earth Alliance’s new GAT-02L2 Dagger L mobile suits. In C.E. 72, ZAFT and the Alliance signed the Junius Treaty, which formally ended the war and prohibited the use of N-Jammer Cancelers and Mirage Colloid. To comply with the treaty, the trial ZAKU was redesigned to exclude the N-Jammer Canceler. The Phase Shift armor was also dropped, and the new treaty-compliant design was mass produced as the ZGMF-1000 ZAKU Warrior and ZGMF-1001 ZAKU Phantom.
Pilot:Â Courtney Hieronymus
First appearance:Â Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY MSV
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
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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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