Zaku I Development History 

Ball Type K was here. Zaku I is a loser.

Right 😕

Was bound to happen inevitably

Suhan Hwang “manipulators”

At first i was like that’s not that big that’s like a tank shell then i thought for a second about a tank shooting Ike a machine gun lol.

Wouldn't it be closer to a 105mm Autocannon? I mean that's also insane, but god damn, a 105mm machine gun would be nuts. RIP everyone's ears if they are nearby.

@@alexporter7379 They call it a machine gun but it would probably be closer to an atocannon, but at the same way that's insane.

To be fair the Italians have a 76mm AA tank called the Otomatic that was made in the 1980's and it has a 120RPM fire rate

@@SilvaDreams that's pretty quick but not quick enough match RPMs of MGs like a .50 cal at 1200 rpm.

FC Mania or top five gms of the one year war???

That’d be awesome

Oh yes please

Why? its a cut rate Gundam made out of cheaper material because the Earth Federation was too cheap to be concerned about the safety and longevity of their pilots...

Oh yes, more GM love!

Did not know That!

tbf zaku I flaws dont cause test pilots to die from it. zudah have killed at least a test pilot.

@@akiraguy Well, TBH it's unknown how many actually died during Zaku I tests because from the official magazine we know that it killed at least 2 during prototype tests while injuring more. And yes I am counting all the zeonic ones since they were labelled as Zaku. On the other hand, Zeonic is known to sabotage other companies' projects so...

@@benlex5672 i took the ms igloo scene where duval said the accident that zudah test pilot dies become the reason ms-5 zaku I won the bid. probably those zeonic test pilots death was during zaku II development, not zaku I.

​@@akiraguy MS-04 and MS-05 blew up several times as well. However, the problem lies in cooling for the Zaku line, not engine overload, meaning it's easier to fix. However, this leads to people thinking Zeonic cheated, especially since the supposed company secrets were leaked and Zeonic launched a whole campaign to shit on the Zudah line while hiding the problems of the Zaku line, which would not be found out until mass production started (mainly underpower due to limitations by cooling problems, as what they probably did was limit the reactor power to solve the cooling problem), leading to the production of Zaku II. The campaign is also how the EFF found out about Zudah as well. BTW I don't know what happened in the English version, but Duval was the one that said it was Zeonic that cheated (persumply the campaign), and it was because of Zeonic that Zudah failed, and how Zudah is a much more powerful machine comparing to the Zaku.

CWDTrixie more specifically it holds up as a support unit

@@lukabazookastj9462 Still, it's that Zeon's most successful One Year War machines (into the far flung future anyhow) were its single oldest and single newest mass production models.

RIP Kirks

@@basteala525 It probably helped that alot of the Zaku I were mothballed and thus in storage which made them easier to retrieve for those that would operate them later on, so spare parts and manufacture data was relatively easily obtained..

I can't believe this mobile suit even survived throughout 0080 they're practically scrap now

"So do you!"

@@barrybend7189 Expendables 2 :D

I thought this line came from indiana jones and the last crusade

But it looks good tho

@@-Extra_Lives Here, here!

Yea I never understood that, thankfully that was delete in later suit models...

@@Feiora it was possibly done to fake 2 eyes. giving a 3d view. or maybe it was done to shield it from possible small arms damage, kinda like how it was done in many medieval armor helmets.

@@marcosdheleno except it was a single swivel monoeye with a support beam as wide as the eye right in front of the central position. thats why the eye was always off center afew degrees when you saw these things...

I think there was one somewhere during Operation Odessa but I do not remember where I saw it.

gundam igloo

But I like Zakus that way!!! B I G and C H U N K Y

Well I respect that

The Zaku-II’s chungus-ness is part of its charm, though

areasevenpro I kinda feel bad for her, I mean she basically helped murder the entire colony without her knowing

I feel for her, it clearly shows how fucked up the Zeon High Command is while their men and women die thinking they are fighting the good fight.

You can see another similar reaction coming from Dozle, when he was trying to deal with the guilt of that operation, he said that he did it to protect Mineva, while they (the people in the colony) weren't strong enough to protect their Minevas.

@@hamletmhb5914 Ye, Dozle had massive survivor's guilt. Also, Cima's not that psycho in 0083. It's never really explained, but she's more or less just a mercenary. So her allegiance is always going to be shaky.

It looks and sounds like her.

Even in a Zaku, fighting Lu Bu would be horrifying.

@@barahng you need the plot armor of the wing gundams to kill him.

Everything gets one shotted by the Gundam, fashion is irrelevant! ;P

Gundam had a damn near god as a pilot

It’s literally a gundam. Proof? Rewatch the show when sanders first got into the ms he said “so this is the power of a gundam”.

@@yuzumeow If you know the show you should also know that is it a batch produced Gundam that actually shares about 80% of the main parts of a GM. Hence why they use GM parts to fix many of them as they get repaired. That is why it is an oddball of Gundam units. It is not a prototype or experimental unit. Maybe what... The generator is different? But if so how great of a difference is there between the original Gundam unit and a GM compared to the Gundam Ground Type? We all know that it is a Gundam... But it has many GM based characteristics and parts associated with it.

I think the generator is more powerful, and is capable of beam weaponry. Pretty cool how ez8 is classified compared to those 2 lol.

@@yuzumeow and these questions and discussions is why I suggested talking about the unit.

@@nexusofice9135 Both ground type units were actually still more Gundam by volume over their later mass production cousins due to how they were produced with leftover v-project development parts, including luna titanium armor materials. This is why spare parts for repairing or rebuilding them were so scarce, and why the EZ8 even came to be since it was made out of whatever parts they could muster. They don't have nearly the highest specs but they weren't required to, they existed as a stopgap measure while the federation worked out proper mass-production line GMs for use both on land and in space.

Real men pilot Goufs

Gouf ignited for me

Anti Theist *I see you are a man of culture as well.*

*picks off everyone from long range* Death to CQC! ^.^ (I'm Zaku/Hizack btw)

Meh zaku r1 for me

It looks like medieval armor!

Lots of Crossbone stuff i guess.

Or the heavygun

The victory final form is possibly the second strongest UC machine, only behind the unicorn perfectibility.

I knew an MS coming with wenches as standard equipment was too good to be true.

after reading into her story i feel horrible for her, betrayed by everyone she ever tried to trust, zeon, the feds, everyone, and left to die to a (imo) shitty main character

What anime is 6:30 from? It kinda looks like Stardust Memory, but I do not remember this scene at all.

@@Xtavalis i thinks its from a game, maybe gihren greed (do some checking at wiki and its say so)? i can't find the cutscene tho

Char: Yes, yes you are.

Except the zudah blew up and had armour worse than the kampfer

I'm pretty interested in it too.

it from added scene exclusive on dvd version of 0083.

Hey look guys its space holo-

The 833kw seems to have been a typo across the board, which should've been 899kw. Thanks for noticing. As for the last two, Dev History focusses mostly on canon aspects (or things that could fit into canon to fill some gaps). While interesting designs, the Solomon Express units do not fit with this.

@@kakarot197 Honestly just because something is a part of a side manga, doesn't mean it doesn't have a place in the canon continuity. You mentioned Hosioka from the developers manga. Which is a side manga, yet seems completely canon. What's more, the MS-04 they built was the one that got Gihren's attention in the initial tests. They also built their own Mobile Worker with parts and details from the Crabman. The MS-05 First Refined Type is a cool machine. One I wish there was more info about. But I really don't see it's canonicity called into question. Especially since nothing about it's design really calls into question the technology of the time. It was just a heavily refitted Zaku 1 with Zaku II parts and some original possibly prototype armor components. From what I could tell of it's upper body, the armor had some shape similarities to the MS-06F2. So it's entirely possible many early prototype parts that were too costly for mass production were used on it.