ZGMF-X999A ZAKU Mass Production Trial Type

Model number: ZGMF-X999A
Code name: ZAKU Mass Production Trial Type
Unit type: pre-production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
Operator: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)
First deployment: December C.E. 71
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
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; Neutron Jammer Canceler
Fixed armaments: 2 x large caliber railgun, mounted on hips
Optional hand armaments: ; 2 x DFX25 high frequency blade tomahawk, stored on backpack; shoulder shield, connected to left arm

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: Courtney Hieronymus
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY MSV
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

DFX25 high frequency blade tomahawk

Large caliber railgun

Rear view

Shoulder shield