Model number: MSM-07
Code name: Z'Gok
Unit type: mass production amphibious mobile suit
Manufacturer: MIP Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; civilians
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso (later refitted and replica units equipped with linear seat/panoramic monitor cockpit)
Dimensions: head height 18.4 meters
Weight: empty 65.1 metric tons; max gross 96.4 metric tons
Construction: super-high tensile steel on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 2480 kW
Propulsion: hydrojet thrusters: 2 x 35000 kg, 13000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.86 G; maximum water speed 103 knots
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 5200 meters
Fixed armaments: 6 x 240 mm missile launcher, 5 round magazine per launcher, mounted in head; 2 x mega particle cannon, mounted in forearms
Featured series: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ; Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079; Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation VS Zeon DX; Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo; Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles
Webamster's notes: When MIP corporation, known only as a maker of Mobile Armors, designed a mobile suit, no one could have expected what a success it would be. Amphibious mobile suits were better suited for production by MIP, being closer in size to the massive Mobile Armors that were overshadowed by Zimmad and Zeonic's human types. MIP seemed to find its element here, and the MSM-07 Z'gok was an amazing mobile suit. Cooling system changes over the older lines of amphibious mobile suits made it less bulky and more agile on land. Six missile launchers mounted in the head and a powerful mega particle cannon mounted in either claw made the Z'gok one of the most heavily armed mobile suits involved in the war, and its armor was second to only the MSM-03 Gogg, bullets having minimal effect against it. Poweful claws capable of goring through GM armor-and in some cases, doing so- give the Z'gok melee fighting capability. Though, like the Acguy, the Z'gok was not equipped for underwater combat, its missile launchers and particle cannons were instead suited for amphibious assaults on the Federation's new land mobile suits that were rapidly turning the tide of the war.
Drawn by Mark Simmons
