It can also be used against enemy mobile suits, but it is harder to hit a constantly moving target.Īn axe-like melee weapon, whose name is short for 'tomahawk'. It is primarily for anti-ship combat and displays its power in hit and run attacks. A 100-round drum magazine is mounted on the right side vertically.Īn early design of the bazooka, which featured a block ammo cartridge and a single exhaust port.Ī portable, physical projectile-type firearm. The Zaku I also incorporated laser sensors, infra-red sensors, and a powerful computer to facilitate the MS's operation.Ī standard weapon for Zaku type MS, this model is the initial type of machine gun used by the Zaku series. The Zaku I used the head-mounted mono-eye camera system, which was used in conjunction with several cameras mounted around the mobile suit's body and granted the pilot excellent visibility from the enclosed cockpit. The reactor was cooled by stored liquid hydrogen during missions in space, and an air-cooled system when operating on Earth. It ran on a thermonuclear reactor developed and manufactured by the ZAS company that provided the Zaku I with an unlimited power source. The Zaku I was developed from the MS-04 Prototype Zaku, and featured technologies that would become standard in all mobile suits. The Zaku I was the world's first nuclear-powered MS to achieve combat status in the UC timeline.
