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|series=Mobile Suit Gundam SEED,Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow, Gundam Build Fighters~10,Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future, Gundam Build Divers~10, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED MSV Astray, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X ASTRAY; Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY Astray, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R, Gundam Evolve, Battle Assault 3 featuring Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Wonderswan), Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Alliance vs. Z.A.F.T.,Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Alliance vs. Z.A.F.T. II, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Battle Destiny, |
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==Technology & Combat Characteristics== |
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Revision as of 11:32, 4 December 2019
Template:Infobox/Mobile Weapon Ver.2The ZGMF-600 GuAIZ (pronounced "Gates" in Japanese and "Gwaze" in English) is a mass-production general-purpose mobile suit, and was featured in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The GuAIZ is a mass production MS deployed by ZAFT in late C.E.71, and unlike ZAFT's previous MS, it is developed by a group of companies (which later merged into the Integrated Design Bureau) led by Maius Military Industries. GuAIZ is designed to replace the outdated ZGMF-1017 GINN and its performance surpasses that of the ZGMF-515 CGUE and the Earth Alliance's GAT-01 Strike Dagger.
The suit is the first ZAFT MS to fully incorporate data obtained from analysing the technology of the four stolen Earth Alliance units, and hence it has head-mounted CIWS, rocket anchor-like Extensional Arrestors, shield and a handheld beam rifle. This incorporation is also the reason for the suit's late deployment, the original design for GuAIZ was completed earlier and last minute modifications were made to the plan to include the new technology.
Like the GINN and CGUE, the GuAIZ also has a head-mounted fin-shaped sensor array but the radar system has been improved. The suit also has enhanced armor and a new backpack with higher output, which not only improves its mobility in space, but also on Earth and within PLANTs. Due to its excellent base structure, GuAIZ is also used in the development of ZAFT's nuclear powered MS.
Armaments
- MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76mm CIWS
- The GuAIZ has two "Picus" 76mm CIWS guns mounted in its head. These light projectile weapons are used to shoot down incoming missiles and enemy units at close range.
- MA-MV03 Composite Shield
- Mounted on the left arm, the Composite Shield is an anti-beam coated shield with two beam claw emitters mounted at the tip. This combination allows the GuAIZ to quickly switch between defense and close quarter combat.
- EEQ7R Extensional Arrestor
- Mounted on the waist, the pair of extensional arrestors are actually beam gun equipped rocket anchors. Due to the short firing range of the small caliber beam gun, it is usually used to generate a beam spike instead. Each extensional arrestor is connected to the suit's backpack via a cable and can be launched to grapple enemy unit tens of meters away. Due to the weapon's unique nature and limitation, they are not popular among the pilots and can only be used effectively by skilled pilots.
- MA-M21G Beam Rifle
- The standard handheld range weapon of the GuAIZ and powered by the suit's battery. It is developed by Maius Military Industries based on the data from the GAT-X units and can easily destroy conventional armor with one shot. It can destroy Earth Alliance's warship with a handful of shots, but is mostly ineffective against armor that has anti-beam treatment.
History
After ZAFT stole the four prototype mobile suits from the Earth Alliance, they quickly studied their new technologies and reverse engineered them for use in ZAFT's mobile suit. The first mass-produced MS featuring these new technologies was the GuAIZ, created in the last months of the war. When in combat, the GuAIZ proved to be superior to the other faction's mass production MS and was even able to hold itself against the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam. While the GuAIZ was the most advanced mass production unit of the war, ZAFT was unable to build them quickly enough to field it in sufficient numbers. After the war ended, ZAFT created a more powerful version of the GuAIZ, the ZGMF-601R GuAIZ R.
Variants
Gallery
Gunpla
Action Figures
Notes and Trivia
- The GuAIZ began as a fan-submitted design for the Gundam SEED Mecha Contest 2002, designed by Ryuta Misaka (提坂竜太).
- The GuAIZ serves as the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED counterpart of Mobile Suit Gundam's MS-14A Gelgoog. Both are late model mass production mobile suit, as well as the first mass production model of a space colony faction to use beam weapons. Both use a melee beam weapon that creates two beam blades, and commanders from both series piloted custom painted units.
- Contradicting other sources, the SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays game depicted the GuAIZ as having Phase Shift Armor.
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