MS-06G Zaku II High Mobility Ground Type

The Zaku II Improved Ground Combat Type is one of many variants of the standard MS-06 Zaku II created by the Principality of Zeon during the One Year War.

Combat Abilities
The armament of the G-type Zaku II was largly the same as that of the original Zaku II. It consisted of a single 120mm machine gun for ranged combat and a heat hawk for close combat.

History
As the Zeonic Company developed the MS-07 Gouf ground combat mobile suit, they realized that one of its most useful features was the incorporation of thrusters in the legs to allow the unit to perform jet-assisted jumps. This new advance would be taken and applied to the old line of Zaku II Ground Type mobile suits. The retrofitted MS-06J Zaku II Ground Types which featured the additional leg thrusters and extra armor were referred to as Zaku II Improved Ground Combat Types (or G-Types for short), and proved to be much more mobile than a standard Zaku II Ground Type.