F90IIIY Cluster Gundam

F90IIIY Cluster Gundam is the third machine in the Earth Federation's F90 line, built by the Strategic Naval Research Institute and introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam Silhouette Formula 91 (U.C. 0123). Earth Federation pilot Lyle Wolf takes it into combat immediately after it is completed.

What it does in the story

SNRI announces the F90III in a trade journal in December U.C. 0122, in the same issue that reveals the F91 is being developed alongside it. The Cluster Gundam is finished at SNRI's Frontier I facility and sent straight at the Crossbone Vanguard's Death Guns squad in March U.C. 0123, which is where the Silhouette Formula 91 material puts its first action.

What makes it different

• The cockpit is the escape vehicle. A Core Block System sits in the torso where an ordinary cockpit would be. In an emergency the block becomes a Core Fighter and carries both the pilot and the combat data stored in the cockpit out of the fight, which is the reason the F90III was built this way.
• The Core Fighter becomes a booster. Docked to the Cluster Gundam's backpack, the same fighter forms a Core Booster. It is not a fighter that fights alone but a small craft with the mobile suit's thrust behind it, which is what makes the escape survivable rather than merely possible.
• Ten hardpoints cover the body. Two on top of each shoulder, two on the forearm sides, two on the front skirt, two on the side skirts and two on the legs. They take Mission Packs, spare e-pacs for the beam rifle, or a beam shield, and they are covered when empty.
• Its bazooka is aimed at the F91's firepower. SNRI's experimental mega beam bazooka is rated against the VSBR carried by the F91. One is handheld and the second can be latched to a side skirt hardpoint and fired from there, which is how the suit brings two to bear at once.

How big is it?

• Head height: 15.0 m, at 9.7 t dry and 26.5 t full, on the published spec sheet
• 1/144: roughly 10.5 cm
• 1/100: roughly 15 cm, the scale of both the 1993 kit and the 2024 Master Grade

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Background sources: F90IIIY Cluster Gundam — Gundam Wiki