Code name: Zaku I Early Type
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: May UC 0075
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 50.3 metric tons; max gross 65.0 metric tons
Construction: super-high tensile steel on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output
rating unknown Propulsion: 2 x rocket thrusters: output unknown
Equipment and design features: none
Fixed armaments: none
Optional hand armaments: 105mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100
rounds per drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armor racks; 280mm Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine; heat hawk, battery powered, can be stored on waist armor racks; shotgun
Webmaster's notes: The Duchy of Zeon's first succesful combat mobile suit, the MS-05A is overshadowed by its successor, the MS-05B, which was produced in larger numbers and to which it looks vey similiar. Though the MS-05A was old technology by the start of the One Year War, it would still be used in combat in limited cases, in times of shortage as well as by traditionists who simply weren't comfortable piloting anything else.
Black Trinary colors(drawn by Mark Simmons)
drawn by Mark Simmons
alternate colors(drawn by Mark Simmons)
