Zaku II Development History (Recon + Sniper Types) 

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Kinda missed the opportunity to mention that 1 Zaku Sniper survived all the way to fighting for the Sleeves, making it probably the longest lived Zaku I in the franchise.

We can never have enough Zaku in our lives.

A full video on the Minovsky Particle would be really nice. It feels a little... "varied" in it's rules between series, so it would be nice to have a clear, concise explanation (and times these rules were broken or forgotten)

This is why I love the Zaku series. Very easy to adapt Edit: so much for Zeon being able to fight another ten years with the resources you shipped from Odessa, eh, M'Quve?

Next thing you tell me there's a Zaku II Chef type which functions as a walking mess hall that cooks food for the troops. Think the Ganymede/Pizza Hut collab from Code Geass.

9:51 everything comes back to Hazel Madness

I can never get enough Gundam development lore, really helps flush out the world more. I really wonder if Zeon ever attempted their version of a Gundam, the Gelgoog maybe?

One can never go wrong with a Zaku, so they say. Truly a multipurpose unit.

Of all the sniper units listed, Node's has to be my favorite.

6:33 Ah yes, the Zaku Flipper, my eternal partner in Gundam Online, back when that was a thing.

Yes! the Scope Do- I mean the Zaku Flipper!

Okay, I like the Dish. It's cute, and it makes sense to a degree. Basically a giant sensor array and some engines. arguably even a lifting body-ish shape Though with the reduced range, maybe something like the Blackbird would work better, leveraging the speed to get up close for a looksie while staying alive. The "flipper" reminds me of the villain, D.A.V.E. from "The Batman" animated series.

I wonder what Sun Tzu would have thought of dropping a gassed colony on Australia?

YES MORE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY!!!! LET'S GO!!!!!!!

I loved that the zaku flipper art for gundam battle operation 2 ,was a reference to votoms.

the funny thing is the Reconnaissance Zaku II's black paint job still fails to camouflage the Suit and was easily shot down.

Great content as per usual! Interesting to hear the origins of the Flipper, it's a suit that I have grown to hate going up against in GBO2 as it's a tricky dicky bastard in the hands of an even half competent pilot. Looking forward to seeing the next installment of UC Gundam lore, I really, really love gaining a better understanding of my favourite setting in one of my favourite franchises. Hope you are doing great and I wish you all the best!

The transition into the sponsor was WILD. Amazing work haha.

Yes more Zaku! More of the superior mobile suit!

ok that dish ad transition was smooth, i tip my hat to you sir

11:08, I usually hate snipers but that’s one of my favorite mobile suits of all time. It’s believable, it’s not some magic armored thing that needs teenager energy to run.

Hey I haven’t watched the whole video yet but does the Zaku Flipper not remind anyone else of the mechs in Armored Trooper VOTOMS?

1:52 But what if you run out of salt??

Just came and saw Zaku II and got something to watch coming out of work

Videos like this reminds me that Bandai could get so much more of my money if they made kits of these units.

"We need a scout vehicle" "good we'll use the 50 ft tall roobt with a giant camcorder" "haha briliant, they'll never spot it spotting them" -Zeon brilliance superseding the Nazis.

Love the Recon Zaku with the Long machine gun in GBO2 the Chaff grenades were awesome and the flipper is deadly as hell with the anti air machine gun.

Yes, more zaku!

0:01 "If fighting is sure to result in victory then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say that he knows a little more about fighting than you do pal because he invented it. And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honour.

I feel like that recon flipper zaku is going to drop kick me and repeatedly hit me with a baton while insulting me.

can you do a development history on the Zaku's from SEED/DESTINY. great vid as always

THANKS FOR THIS! I was just using it un GBO2 over the weekend

Kind of surprised you didn’t use more GBO2 footage, a few of the other suits you mentioned actually appear in that game. GBO2 usually does a very good job of making most suits in it look handsome, it’s actually gotten me to like and respect other suits that I initially thought looked too goofy.

Babe wake up new Kakarot197 development history came out

Great video, but still hoping for the Gouf development history sometime in the near future.

There was one zaku flipper used as a sniper unit in the aggressors manga which the main character chase was battling it in a space pod

jacob also got his goog JN to be succeeded by the vertex xanthos id love to see a dev history on the chimera corp units like his umas etc etc or the gabaldy that used parts from the gp04 those sorta hybrid units are insanely cool

Targeted and Firing!

Excellent brand transition 😂

"Military intelligence. Two words combined that don't make sense." -Megadeth

I'd love it if you made a dedicated video on pilots who used Zaku 1s both during and after the war

What is it about Zaku's that's so intriguing? Of all the models out there in the U.C timeline it's the Zaku that stands out the most for me.

Kakarot, if you have already done a series of 'what if' videos about the Alex, why not a series of 'what if' videos about a world without psychoframe? Something like 'more realistic CCA'.

03:28 is that the troop carrier used by Ramba Ral in the background? so they are actually capable of space flight?😂

We need more Zaku's, Boy. More Zaku's.

Still hoping for a HGUC Gelgoog Jacobius Node custom release just for the triple camera sensor

God how I missed these.

I gotta go back and finish Code Fairy...

Great 😃👍 to have video about Monoskey particles topic

The Dish looks like a cute turtle. ^_^

aww yisss delicious development history gimme gimme

Wait. You said the Minoskvi particle even reduces visibility? In what way? When do they show this? I thought it only messed with Radar and radio waves. Anyway great video! I'm really looking forward to the Gelgoog development history video when you get to it! Do you think you'll give the GM family as much love as the Zaku family at some point? I'd bet there might be even MORE GM variations. XD

1:16 turtle lookin jet

I love your videos. Maybe we could even more Zeon like Gelgoog, Gouf, Z,gok or Hygogg

Ive used the Zaku I Sniper Type a number of times in GBO2. I primarily use the long barrel Zaku machine gun though which has served me well. Most dont expect Zaku I Sniper Type to use that gun due to it being dubbed the worst gun in GBO2. But I beg to differ. The worst gun to me is the anti-air zaku machine gun that the Zaku Flipper and the High Mobility Type Zaku II uses in GBO2.

Waiting on the EWAC Zack hehe

Now if only there was more about the hawkeye...

This is all well and good but I need my fix of GM Lore soon.....

Ah yes, the zaku not only with a cockpit, but a.......cc footage.....

I never understood the concept of the "camera gun." If the MS has such a sophisticated mono-eye, then why not just integrate the functionality of the camera gun into the mono-eye? Only 2 reasons I can think of for the camera gun being a seperate "gun," are: A) You can hide the MS behind a building or something, and stick the camera gun around the corner to spy on the enemy. But, in this case, why not just integrate the camera to the arms? It would do the same thing, but also allow the hands/manipulators to carry weapons in case of confrontation. B) In case of an emergency, you can dispose of the camera gun for future retrieval (throw it off a cliff or into a crater) . Or, you can pass it off to an ally to take recorded info back to base. But, again, there's a counter-option. Why not integrate the camera into the mono-eye or arms, and make the recording medium ejectable like an ammo magazine (think of a VHS tape or CD-Rom)? Just eject it and throw it somewhere for future retrieval, or pass it to an ally. (Just watched more of the video) I guess Zeon eventually ditched the camera gun with the Flipper?

I love sniper type mobile suits so much.

Code Fairy mentioned 😃

zaku my beloved

No mention of the Luggun in the intro? Zeon's equivalent to the dish?

Kind of a miss opportunity, not having a matte black units, perhaps something like black 2.0 coloured units especially for recon units. While sensors would detect them, its going to be a b17ch for visual detection.

That zaku in thumbnail that they make for Scopedog event in GBO2

Hey kakarot still hoping on a top ten best ship mounted Weapons standard or optional hopping for you to make that video 👍😉

Recon and Snipers are the 1st task to deploy to an unknown area and gather info on the enemy strenght

Everyone loves a Zaku thicc boi

In Mobile suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Daryl Lorenz used Zaku 2 and 1 for using a sniping beam weapons to fire down some GM'S

Jegan Development History Please!

More zaku development history More warships development history (I hope)

yo kakarot using gbo2 footage

I don’t know what is it about the Hawkeye. But it’s monoeye disturbs me

A gundam mmofps would be lit

we called it Votom Zaku 😂

Think you can do one of the Dolmel?

The dish looks like a big turtle

Speaking of Zaku IIs, whatever happened to Char's Zaku II? IIRC the last time we see it was when Garma died and it was never destroyed.

The E-3 reminds me of Scope Dog

May I suggest that you make a video on the development history of the GN-X? Or do you only do UC mobile suits?

I first saw this Zaku from the Gundam Legacy manga

I've always wanted a gunpla for the zaku 2 recon sniper type HG so I'm going too slam a bunch of zakus together too get a sniper type wish me luck

Jacob Nobius upgraded his gelgoog cannon to the xanthos Jacob nobius custom I believe same overall body and head but new backpack and the zeta's hyper mega launcher for improved snipingfirepower

Can we get a video about all of the EWAC units too sometime, please?

I wonder what sun tzu would think of the gundam-type suits in G-Witch

Is the ms-109 Stuka or pmx-005 Breada canon suits or is it fan made? The triple lens on the flipper looks like a votoms

What about the evac-zack? Also didn't zeon have their own weird looking spy plane in the original series and 08th ms team.

Hey kakarot me and friend want to know about federation shields like what advantages they provide namely the gm command shield

Man....... that segway to the sponsors tho.....

GM development history please!

Zaku Flippers seem weird at first but I can tell you from GBO2 experience it can kick your ass. Because I've had my ass kicked lol. Its an electronic warfare suit that disrupts radar as well.

I love playing those recon Zakus in GBO2, except most of the time, the other players in my team are showing me their disapproval of the suit choice by simply back meleeing me in the back when they see me.

Ah yes, instead of small easy to produce recon jet, let's build an apartment size mech as a recon unit. Why? Cause it's cooler.

okay i might want a Dish but what IF I NEED A BIG TRAY?

197 you turd!!! Now i wanna play more Girens greed!!! Grumble, grumble not even ZAKU in my diet....

Lets be real the best recon unit in gundam was a dude with a pair of binoculars

seriously, bask is just a creep. like how did anyone think the titans were ok when it was him and jamitov in charge while having such "on a registry" energy?

*Obligatory* GM development history when?