The GINN Assault Type is a Mobile Suit introduced in the manga Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray.
Technology & Combat Characteristics[]
The GINN Assault Type is a standard ZGMF-1017 GINN equipped with "Assault Shroud" Armor (hence the "AS" acronym in the model code), which greatly increased the mobile suit's overall performance. This set of armor is designed mainly to protect the front of the GINN from attacks, it also has built-in weapons and additional thrusters to improve firepower, propulsion capabilities as well as mobility. Additional batteries are installed in the backpack armor to meet the additional energy needs and to improve operation time.
Armaments[]
- Gatling Gun
- A pair of Gatling guns are mounted on the suit's shoulders, they can function as both a long-range weapon or as CIWS for intercepting missiles. These shell-firing weapons have a high-rate of fire and can damage lightly armored units.
- M68 "Pardus" 3-barrel Short-range Guided Missile Launcher
- M68 "Pardus" short-range guided missile launcher is a "D-Type" assault weapon more often used in attacking bases or fortresses. They are mounted on the GINN Assault Type's legs.
- 2-tube Grenade Launcher
- Mounted on the GINNs wrists, although the grenades are not very effective against large ships, they are ideal mid-range anti-mobile suit weapons.
- Chest Grenade
- A pair of grenades are hidden within the additional chest armor, one on each side of the chest. To fire the grenades, the additional armor has to flip open.
- Custom Handgun
- A composite weapon used by mobile suits piloted by professional MS pilot, Kaite Madigan. It is a customized handgun that can switch between firing beams or solid rounds by rotating the barrel and is equipped with an "Armor Schneider" knife blade at the bottom for close combat.
- MA-M3 Heavy Blade
- The same handheld close-range armament as equipped by the standard GINN, it is a double-edged physical blade made using the same molecular processing technology as the outer armor of the Laurasia-class. Its blade had incredible toughness, and could easily cleave an OMNI Enforcer mobile armor in half. When not in use, it was stored on the left side skirt armor.
- JDP2-MMX22 Experimental 27mm Armor-Piercing Assault Rifle
- Used by the GINN Assault Type in the manga Gundam SEED Re:, it is developed from the regular GINN's heavy assault rifle with added firepower and capacity. It has multiple modes of fire, one rapid-fire and the other a single-fire mode that has more power. The assault rifle is clip-fed and extra clips can be carried as spares.
History[]
The GINN Assault Type was developed during the First Alliance-PLANT War as one of ZAFT's plans to improve GINN's versatility. However, ZAFT dropped the plan in favor of developing higher-performance MS, such as ZGMF-515 CGUE. As such, only a limited set of armor was produced, making the GINN Assault Type a rare GINN variant. One unit belonged to professional MS pilot Kaite Madigan, who used it between the first and Second Alliance-PLANT War.[1][2] The GINN's Assault Shroud also inspired the one used by the GAT-X102 Duel Gundam.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Re:[]
In an alternate take on the Heliopolis mission to capture the G-Weapons, two GINN Assault Types were on board the Nazca-class ship, Vesallius, and assigned to Miguel Aiman and Olor Kudenbru. Both units were destroyed in battle by the GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike Gundam.
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