MS-14Jg Gelgoog Jäger

The MS-14Jg Gelgoog Jäger (ゲルググJ（イェーガー）) is a variant of the standard MS-14A Gelgoog. It appeared in the Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket series.

Technology and Combat Characteristics
The Gelgoog Jäger is a product of Zeon's United Maintenance Plan and an upgraded, high-performance version of the already exceptional MS-14A Gelgoog, with improved generator enables it to carry heavier beam weapons. The Gelgoog Jäger is faster and more maneuverable than the standard Gelgoog, and can be equipped with external propellant tanks to greatly extend its operating range. When armed with its powerful and highly accurate beam machine gun, it becomes a very effective sniper.

Armaments

 * Vulcan Gun
 * Rapid-firing rotary cannons mounted in the Gelgoog Jäger's head. These head mounted shell firing weapons have a high-rate of fire, but have little power and are generally ineffective against mobile suits; however, the vulcan gun can damage lightly armored areas such as the sensors. These weapons are ideal for shooting down small, fast moving, lightly armored targets such as missiles or small vehicles.


 * Beam Spot Gun
 * The Gelgoog Jäger is equipped with two beam spot guns, one mounted on each forearm. These guns

fire volleys of beam shots instead of solid shell rounds featured on Gelgoog Marines and they can destroy a mobile suit with a concentrate stream of shots. The beam spot gun is ideal for attacking light armored mobile suits and mobile weapons in close-quarter situation when quick reaction time is important for counterattack, and when the bulky Beam Machine Gun is unsuitable for the task.


 * Beam Machine Gun
 * A standard hand carried ranged beam weapon is the beam rifle. Capable of firing concentrated mega particles, attacks from a beam rifle can damage any ordinary armor that has not be specially treated to resist it. The beam machine gun operates on similar principles, but it breaks down the concentrated mega particles so that it fired a burst of smaller less powerful beams instead of a single large coherent beam. Each individual beam in a burst was less powerful than the coherent beam from most other beam rifles. However, because of the immense power in standard beams this was an issue of little importance. The burst did allow for a spread of beams, similar to a beam spray gun, allowing for a greater chance of hitting a target, yet holds the same range as a regular beam rifle.


 * Beam Saber
 * The beam saber is a small cylindrical device held in the mobile suit's hands when operated and is powered by an energy capacitor that is recharged from special racks. The beam saber is capable of cutting through any metal that has not been treated with anti-beam coating.

Special Equipment & Features

 * External Propellant Tanks
 * An external tank used for propellant storage. This extra propellant greatly extends a mobile suit's operating range, and enables it to stay in combat longer. When the propellant is consumed, the tank can be discarded to reduce the mobile suit's weight. These tanks use a two-layered construction, with one layer containing propellant, and the other holding extra coolant.

History
Developed at the very end of the One Year War, this lethal mobile suit was produced only in very limited numbers, and it appears only once during Zeon's attacks on the Side 6 colony of Libot.

Notes & Trivia

 * In a what-if scenario in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, the infamous "White Wolf of Solomon" Shin Matsunaga receives a customized white Gelgoog Jäger and fights at the Battle of A Baoa Qu. In reality, he had been recalled to Side-3 since before the Battle of Solomon and was not present at A Baoa Qu (his own customized Zaku was discovered in Solomon by the Federals and destroyed). However, considering that Zeon often assigned powerful units such as the Jäger to their best pilots, it is not difficult to imagine the feared ace being assigned one but not have the chance to use it.


 * Jäger is the German word for "hunter".