MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype

MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype
MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype (MS-07C-5 グフ（試作実験型）)
Unit Type
Prototype Test-use Ground Mobile Suit
Real World
Variation	Mobile Suit Variations
Mechanical Designer	Kunio Okawara
Profile
Developed from	MS-07B Gouf
Developed Into	MS-09B Dom YMS-08B Dom Test Type YMS-09 Prototype Dom
First Seen	0079 U.C.
Manufacturer	Zimmad Company Zeonic Company
Operator	Principality of Zeon
General Characteristics
Head Height	18.7 meters61.352 ft <br />736.22 in <br />
Empty Weight	57.4 metric tons
Power-plant	Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor
Pilot Accommodations	Pilot only (in cockpit in torso)
Armor	Super Hard Steel Alloy
Standard Armaments
Fixed	Heat Saber
Handheld	Shield M-120A1 120mm Machine Gun 2 x Sturm Faust

The MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype is a mobile suit from the design series Mobile Suit Variations.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

In efforts to create a dominant land use mobile suit, the Principality of Zeon's Zimmad Company took a standard MS-07 Gouf and extensively modified it. The new unit they created was dubbed the Gouf Test Prototype. The Gouf Test Prototype mounted several extra thrusters in its legs to give it the ability to hover short distances across the ground. It was also given an experimental heat saber. Additionally, the standard Gouf head was replaced with a large mono-eye version, which bears a large resemblance to the MS-09B Dom.

Armaments

• Heat Saber

The Gouf Test Prototype's main close combat weapon, it uses thermal energy to superheat its blade to melt through the armor of an enemy machine. As the heat saber degrades during use, it is discarded after usage.

• Shield

A basic arm-mounted defense armament for many mobile suits. The shield is a thick sheet of armor designed to take severe punishments that would normally destroy a mobile suit. Typically, physical shields can only take so much damage before they succumb to the pressure and break. Also, the shield could not withstand a beam attack, due to the lack of anti-beam coating technology of that time.

• M-120A1 120mm Machine Gun

Also referred to as a "rifle" by Zeon soldiers, Zeonic was contracted to develop this weapon. Its internal development code is "ZMC38III". It can switch between semi-automatic and automatic fire. Although useless against Luna Titanium Alloy, it can still destroy weaker armor material with multiple shots.

• Sturm Faust

A simplified, disposable rocket launcher. As the warhead is not equipped with a guidance device, it is extremely hard to use the Sturm Faust to hit a moving target accurately. However, it is still a highly destructive portable weapon.

History

Only one Gouf Test Prototype was constructed during the One Year War, and used explicitly as a testbed for new innovations in mobile suit design, never seeing any actual combat. The data gathered from the Gouf Test Prototype was compiled and several of the new technologies tested with it would become standard issue when the Zimmad Company created their next mobile suit, the MS-09B Dom.

Action Figures

Robot Damashii "MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype Ver. A.N.I.M.E." (P-Bandai exclusive; 2017): package front view

Robot Damashii "MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype Ver. A.N.I.M.E." (P-Bandai exclusive; 2017): product sample

External links

• MS-07C-5 Gouf Test Prototype on MAHQ,net