RGM-79S GM Spartan

The RGM-79S GM Spartan was originally created by Hitoshi Fukuchi for the Fukuchi Mobilesuit Station (FMS) feature in Bandai's Model Journal magazine. Fukuchi is the same artist who created the variants featured in the Gundam 0080 and Char's Counterattack model kit manuals, and most of his FMS creations are variants of One Year War mobile suits.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
According to its profile in the FMS feature, The GM Spartan was a variant of the RGM-79SP GM Sniper II fitted with a different backpack and extra armor on the front of its body, wire-guided anti-MS missiles on its right shoulder, Minovsky particle dispersion pods, and infra-red camouflage fabric on its back. On its head visor it's provided of an infrared interception sheet in order to enable IR radar detection.

History
The GM Spartan is known to have been deployed by the 2nd Special Platoon of the 17th Armored Marine Division in the Southaast Asia front, during the Borneo landing operation (December UC 0079).