ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type

The GINN High Maneuver Type is a Mobile Suit Variant from the series Gundam SEED. It also appeared in the manga Gundam SEED Astray.

Combat Abilities
Thanks to its enhanced number of thrusters, the GINN High Maneuver Type is capable of high speed movements and maneuverability. Weapons wise the suit doesn't mount any fixed armaments. Instead it is typcially equipped with a JDP2-MMX22 experimental 27mm armor assault rifle, which also mounts a MA-M3 heavy sword which can be used in close combat as a bayonet.

System Features
To serve its purpose of high speed movement, the GINN HMT mounts lightwave pulse thrusters in its wings, which are similar to the ones used on the METEOR units. Thanks to these thrusters, the suit can move at incredible speed far superior to the ones of ordinary mobile suits. To increase its maneuverability, additional thrusters are mounted accross the MS' body.

History
Over the course of the Bloody Valentine War, ZAFT creates a vast number of variants of its main mass produced mobile suit, the ZGMF-1017 GINN. One such unit is the GINN High Maneuver Type, which, as its name implies, is used for fast movement in battles. An unknown number of these suits are produced with some of them being assigned to ZAFT ace pilots like Rau Le Creuset and Mikhail Coast. Creuset used such a suit in the final battle of the Grimaldi front on June 2, CE 70, while Mikhail piloted a GINN HMT to fight against the members of the Serpent Tail mercenary group but eventually he got defeated and his suit was captured.

After the wars end, ZAFT creates a new variant of this suit the, ZGMF-1017M2 GINN High Maneuver Type II, which is even capable of holding itself against ZAFT's newest mobile suit series, the ZGMF-1000 ZAKU Warrior.