The California Base I find to be dubious because it was retaken on December 15, I find it HIGHLY unlikely to make 500 GMs 2 weeks before the final battle at ABQ. This is Gundam Wiki so take a grain of salt with that. Hmm... I'm actually curious how much Luna II has to do with MS development after t...

the recaptured California base did produce at least 500 RGM-79 GM units in the last month of the war. http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/California_Base
Augusta Base built the RX-78NT-1 http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Newtype_Re ... ewtype_Lab

The GM is a mass-production of the Gundam, but this doesn't make it a close range unit, in fact, it uses the Guncannon head design, which is for a middle ranged unit. (The twin camera of Gundam gives it a wider view angle for close range combat with the pay off of shorter range) The spray gun has a...

The degree of movement for model/toy depends heavily on whoever design it. For example this old MIA ver2 Rickdom has mobility that put MG to shame http://sranngurenn.blog70.fc2.com/blog-entry-3820.html If MG is used for comparison foot and leg mobility of the 1st ver of GM and Rickdom are both rath...

The fun thing here is that the WWII US M4 actually didn't have standardized parts, the parts manufactured by different factories in different states can be different enough so they don't fit into tanks made by another state. It is just that the manufactured tanks and parts are so numerous, all the ...

If we look at the production period, Rick Dom should be compared to Ball[...]The Dom seemed to be better than Ball just because of its heavier and humanoid nature, but the actual spec isn't that great. That is definitely not a valid comparison IMO, because the Rick Dom is a space-modification of a ...

At the end of the OYW, Zeon's final production models seemed to be been more of a much for Federation units in terms of performance because of the UMP. The Gelgoog Jaegar, Rick Dom II/Dom Funf/Tropen, Zaku II Kai, Z'gok E and Hygoog were quite better in terms of performance compared to their previo...

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this link loads the image at full size. it's logical that as the nemo was meant to reuse GM equipment to save costs that gm units could use nemo equipment if that was what they had at that base.

So, I notice that the Gundam and the standard GM are mainly depicted with that one-piece looking, flat red shields. But then there the GM variants (like the GM Command), all of which belonged to the later part of the war, using a convex shield with two prongs at the bottom (possibly taking inspirat...

Wait? So is there any part commonality between the Galbady Alpha and the Gyan? And secondly, is Pezun not really a manufacturer but instead a research lab? For all of their MS that they have designed and I could recall are prototype: Galbaldy Alpha, Gasshia. Even the Gyan (or at least the Gyan Eos ...

Ieonically the Test type GM cannon does look like they took parts from both a RX-77-2 and a RGM-79 and combinded the parts to do the first units but the GM frame being much lighter led to issues with keeping the ballence like the zaku cannon units had. the final model basically moved the armor aroun...

I ran into an interesting concept about the Gundam Mk III while checking Deacon's site: ...the Gundam Mk-III was perfected and was said to have been the latest evolution of general purpose mobile suits due to the concept which focused on returning to the starting point of mobile suits: organic move...

the3 only ms in the History of gundam to have a muffler would be the MSER-04 Anf From gundam 00 and it's older version the MSJ-04 Fanton both Diesel powered MS http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MSJ-04_Fanton

Thinking about real-life, I suddenly have this idea: Many armament company actually doesn't produce anything. They just buy old vehicles, guns, etc for the part then sell these to different customers, including armies whose equipment has not changed. So could it be possible that Anaheim Electronic,...

First some quick notes on the Hyaku Shiki and Zeta Gundam: -The Hyaku Shiki from ZZ is said to be a second unit. -We know that at least one more identical Zeta Gundam was built for Amuro, and supposedly two minor variants were built for Gray Wolf and Red Snake as seen in Gundam Evolve. My point is ...

Maybe a less obvious answer as to the failings of the RCX-76 is software? They don't have learning computers right? And without the Gundam's combat data the Guncannons wouldn't really have any data for close-range combat. Meanwhile Zeon had a sizable headstart and a certain deliberation in designin...

False Prophet wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:23 am Anyone here know when did slid-eyes designs (Like the Temjin in Virtual On) began to become popular?

I believe that was a early 90's design as that's when V Gundam came out and the BESPA MS units all used the slit eye sensors.

Using Zaku frames (and later Hizack frames) for reducing costs and streaming mass production does sound like a sound reason. For what matters, we don't really see the EF using much non-Zaku units (including the Gouf series) such as the Dom and Gelgoog series, aside from captured units or designs li...

These things were in my mind when I mentioned the lack of expertise in a training squadron filled with experienced pilots. Scarlet Team might also have been relatively inexperienced in real battle use of MS, despite the quality issue MS. I will cut them some slack,though. The Kampfer was an unknown...

The mono-eye itself could just be replaced with a better suited one and use the same camera rail. After all, in MS Igloo we saw how even things like the OP-02C also use mono-eyes, so there should be plenty of specialized types that also use rails. That being said, the MSM-07 Z'gok series in particu...