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The F89 Gundam F89 is a mobile suit which appears in the manga series Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula and Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Dust.

Technology & Combat Characteristics[]

The Gundam F89 was an experimental mobile suit built by SNRI to collect data and test equipment for their "Formula Project" line of miniaturized mobile suits, particularly for the F90 Gundam F90. Despite being a testbed unit, it boasts high performance for an 18-meter tall MS, and is said to have performance on par with the F90 Gundam F90. The frame of the Gundam F89 is newly designed, however it is compatible with MS parts from Anaheim Electronics. To distinguish the two units, one was painted in red and blue colors and features a curved v-fin, while the other unit remains white with a straight v-fin.

Prototypes of the Gundam F90's Mission Packs were produced for the Gundam F89, a High-Mobility Type pack and a Long-Range Attack Type pack. The High-Mobility Type is equipped with a backpack with two propellant tanks and additional thrusters, while the Long-Range Attack Type backpack was equipped with two prototype Beam Cannons that were the prototype of the VSBR.

Armaments[]

  • Long Beam Rifle
This beam rifle is the main weapon of F89 in F90FF manga which had near identical look to those used by Jegan A & B Type. The Beam Rifle itself had a powerful output that able to make a hole to enemy mobile suit without anti beam protection such as anti beam coating or beam shield.[1]
  • Gustav Karl's Shield
Since Gundam F89 isn't given specific weapon and defensive capabilities and also the lack of parts the engineers of F90 test Team B gave it Gustav Karl's flexible shield as protection because of it's huge size and also easily modified to be handled by standard sized MS such as F89.
  • Axe Rifle
A composite weapon that combines a large axe and a rifle.
  • Beam Saber
The F89 has two beam sabers stored on the backpack when equipped with its High-Mobility Type pack.
  • Beam Cannon
A pair of powerful beam weapons used by the F89's Long-Range Attack Type pack. However, these cannons are early prototypes and can only be fired three times before they stopped functioning. This equipment was later used to develop the VSBR.
  • Beam Rifle
A beam weapon of the same model as the RGM-119 Jamesgun was used during a mock battle.

History[]

When SNRI first began developing miniature mobile suits, they wished to test their current technical capabilities. To accomplish this, two testbed Gundam F89 units were produced. Data was collected on technologies to be used in the development of the Gundam F90.

One of these units was piloted by Gideon Blondin in U.C. 0112 during a mock battle with the Gundam F90 Fight Type. Following this mock battle, the Gundam F89 served as an escort MS for the F90 test team B and later Fastest Formula Corps throughout the rest of F90 Fastest Formula manga. During the story of Fastest Formula the F89 itself upgraded several time in order to suit Gideon role as commander while simultaneously enhancing it's performance in order to keep up with contemporary MS such as the F90 and the MSA-120 Draig. Despite being 18m MS which by some considered "large" MS like the Jegans by some people, the F89 performance is comparable to those miniaturized MS, also thanks to Gideon amazing skill and experience it's a force to be reckoned with even by the pilot of MSA-120 Draig.

Unfortunately during a duel near Trimurti Anti Asteroid Cannon against MSA-120 Draig the F89 itself is heavily damaged by it's High Impact Gun, then stabbed by funnel jacked F90NGVW type Hilt Funnel which caused critical damage to the unit, even though it's heavily damaged the unit itself manage to help F90 NGVW pack dealt heavy damage to both the MSA-120 & RF Gromlin II. Due to the heavily damaged F89 it also caused critical injuries to Gideon, and soon he after dies in Dir Rider arms and put to rest under a destroyed Clop Class Cruiser.

One of the two units' frames was later salvaged in U.C. 0168 and used in the Anchor Mixing Build MS, while the other unit was refurbished by Frank Oz and given to pilot Jean Dauvin. Jean's unit is equipped with the High-Mobility Type pack and has been given a large physical shield. Following this refurbishment, all remaining spare parts for the F89 were used up, so it is considered its final configuration.

Variants[]

  • Gundam F89 Commander Specification

The base spec of Gundam F89 itself is already a good one for a standard sized UC 100 era MS, but because of the role of Gideon Blondin as commander of the Fastest Formula Corps the unit given a minor upgrade in order to make it a suitable commander type. The Gundam F89 Commander spec is equipped with a large antenna on the left if it's chest almost identical to those used by F90 O Type in order to enable it communicate with others more effectively, though the tradeoff is that F89 only had 1 beam saber the Fairlady mechanics added more weapons such as Jegan D Type Bazooka, and Hizack's 3 tube missile pod.[2]

  • Gundam F89 High Mobility Type (F90FF)

Gundam F89 had a better base spec from it's smaller counterpart of the, although the lack of hardpoints that makes the F89 less versatile than the F90 which also becoming a significant problem against a high mobility unit such as MSA-120 Draig. Therefore the engineers aboard the Ajax upgraded the F89 with extra binders and leg boosters in order to make the F89 performance on par with those of contemporary Mobile Suits, especially the MSA-120. The F89 High Mobility itself is equipped with 2 Railcannons similiar to those used by Land Combat Type GM during One Year War Era, new type of waist missile pods resembles those used by RGM-89M Jegan B Type, right arm missile launcher, and at last Gustav Karl's shield with hidden Beam Shield emitter underneath so it can absorb a lot of damage and avoid complete destruction to the main body of the unit.

  • Gundam F89 Custom

A restored and upgraded version of the Gundam F89. Some colors has been changed and the twin eye color also been change to yellow. In the backpack is equipped with the High-Mobility Type pack, the axe gun of the Anchor. In addition, the front armor of Verdun which has been cutted by the Anchor V2 and later remodeled into a portable shield which stores the fragment grenades of the Verdun. Later they replaced the High-Mobility Type pack for the V3 thruster from the Anchor V3 into the Anchor V4.

Gallery[]

Mobile Suit Gundam F90: Fastest Formula[]

Crossbone Gundam Dust[]

References[]


  1. Gundam F90FF, Vol 8, Chapter 24, Page 035
  2. Gundam F90FF, Vol 7, Chapter 27, Page 085-087, 122-123

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