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Model number: MS-06F
Code name: Zaku II
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Neo Zeon
First deployment: March UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso (later refitted and replica units equipped with panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit)
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 58.1 metric tons; max gross 73.3 metric tons
Armour materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 951 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 20500 kg, 2 x 1000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.59 G; 180-degree turn time 1.7 seconds; maximum ground running speed 88 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x 3-tube missile pod, mounted on legs
Optional hand armaments: ZMP-50D/120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armour racks; H&L-SB25K/280mmA-P Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine, can be stored on rack on rear waist armour; heat hawk Type5, battery powered, can be stored on waist armour racks; MIP-B6 cracker grenade, can be stored on optional storage rack on waist armour racks
Technical and Historical Notes
Introduced early during the One Year War as a replacement for the C-type Zaku II, the F-type is the most heavily mass-produced version of the Zaku II line and serves as the mainstay of the Zeon military. It's the F-type that is also the most well-known version of Zeon's mobile suit forces. Although fully capable of operating on Earth, the F-type is designed primarily for space combat (although the F-type does see limited use in Earth-based ground combat). A nearly identical variant of the F-type, the J-type, is designed and employed as a ground combat unit. The Midnight Fenrir team uses various F-types as scouts before Zeon's mass drop operations to invade North America. Many F-types survive the war and remain in service as part of Haman Karn's Neo Zeon forces during the First Neo Zeon War in UC 0088. These surviving F-types are upgraded with some of the latest technology, including 360 degree panoramic monitors in the cockpit.
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
MS-06 F/J ZAKU II
General and Technical Data
Model number: MS-06F
Code name: Zaku II
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Operator(s): Principality of Zeon; Neo Zeon
First deployment: March UC 0079
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso (later refitted and replica units equipped with panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit)
Dimensions: head height 17.5 meters
Weight: empty 58.1 metric tons; max gross 73.3 metric tons
Armour materials: super-hard steel alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 951 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 20500 kg, 2 x 1000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.59 G; 180-degree turn time 1.7 seconds; maximum ground running speed 88 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Fixed armaments: none
Optional fixed armaments: 2 x 3-tube missile pod, mounted on legs
Optional hand armaments: ZMP-50D/120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum, spare drums can be stored on waist armour racks; H&L-SB25K/280mmA-P Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine, can be stored on rack on rear waist armour; heat hawk Type5, battery powered, can be stored on waist armour racks; MIP-B6 cracker grenade, can be stored on optional storage rack on waist armour racks
Technical and Historical Notes
Introduced early during the One Year War as a replacement for the C-type Zaku II, the F-type is the most heavily mass-produced version of the Zaku II line and serves as the mainstay of the Zeon military. It's the F-type that is also the most well-known version of Zeon's mobile suit forces. Although fully capable of operating on Earth, the F-type is designed primarily for space combat (although the F-type does see limited use in Earth-based ground combat). A nearly identical variant of the F-type, the J-type, is designed and employed as a ground combat unit. The Midnight Fenrir team uses various F-types as scouts before Zeon's mass drop operations to invade North America. Many F-types survive the war and remain in service as part of Haman Karn's Neo Zeon forces during the First Neo Zeon War in UC 0088. These surviving F-types are upgraded with some of the latest technology, including 360 degree panoramic monitors in the cockpit.
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
- The original concept of the Zaku was simply a disposable underling, with its name derived from the sound of a huge man (or many soldiers) walking and the Japanese term 雑魚 (zako), meaning "inferior fish" (the term also signifying expendable grunts).
- Although partially, the Zaku was a design model for the Russian Jaeger Cherno Alpha, in the 2013 movie Pacific Rim.
Love the creator ( Tomino ) inclusion of real life science with the colony ( O'Neill Cylinder ), zero G tech, Helium 3 mining at Jupiter and the moon base colony Von Braun 
Don't know what it is, yet can say SU 
Maybe you don't like big walking humanoid mechanized weapon of war that doesn't have special power and can be as fragile as the next main battle tank 
I can see why some consider it uncool, I have spent most of my childhood with the anime, model kits, metal die cast and read the novels. Zaku is the main reason the Earth Federation built the protagonist mobile suit RX78-2 Gundam aka White Devil.
