MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type
Featured series: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
Model number: MS-06RD-4
Code name: Zaku II Prototype
Unit type: prototype space combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon Granada Base
Mobile Suit Factory
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 60.3 metric tons; max gross 77.5 metric tons
Construction: super-high tensile steel on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 986 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 53000 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.68 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 120mm machinegun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum; heat hawk, battery powered, can be carried on waist armor storage racks
Webmaster's notes: Basically a Rick Dom on Zaku II hybrid, the Zaku High Mobility Test Type was not one of the many High Mobility Zaku variants, but rather simply a test chasis for the thrusters that would be used on Zimmad company's up and coming grunt mobile suit, the MS-09R Rick Dom. Never meant for production, one HMTT was modified from a standard Zaku at Granada and put into the hands of Aina Sakhalin, who tested it succesfully against an entire squad of GMs, the high mobility assisting her in destroying all of them armed only with a heat hawk and 120mm machinegun.
