MS-07B Gouf

MS-07B Gouf is Zeon's ground-combat mobile suit in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979, U.C. 0079). Zeonic developed it as a full rework of the ground type Zaku II, and the machine that introduced it belongs to Ramba Ral.

What it does in the story

Ramba Ral's Gouf appears in episode 12, unnamed until episode 16, and Amuro registers it as something new because its armour and output do not behave like a Zaku's. Episode 19 gives it its one heat-saber duel with the Gundam: the Gouf cuts through the Gundam's shield, and the exchange ends with a beam saber through the Gouf's back while Ral escapes by hooking a cable onto the Gundam. Eight mass-production Goufs sortie under M'Quve in episode 22, half of them lost.

What makes it different

• It is a rework of the ground type Zaku, not a clean-sheet design. Zeonic took the ground type Zaku II, the J type, and rebuilt it for close combat, to the point that more than sixty percent of the machine is new. The blade antenna that only Zaku commander types carried became standard on the Gouf.
• Two of its three main weapons are built into the body. The heat rod is an extendable electromagnetic whip listed at 17.5 m overall, the five-barrel 75 mm machine gun sits in the fingers of the left hand, and the heat saber is stowed inside the shield. Only the saber is hand-held in the ordinary sense.
• The shield exists because the left hand is a gun. The Gouf Shield is designed around the fact that the left hand barely works as a manipulator, so it is built for close-range defence first, with a mount latch on the back for the heat saber.
• It never became the mainstay. Handling difficulty and operating cost kept it out of mass issue, production lines were cut back after Odessa, and the Dom took over as the Zaku's replacement. Aces who valued its jump performance kept flying it anyway.

How big is it?

• Head height: 18.5 m for the MS-07B, with the YMS-07B prototype listed at 18.2 m
• 1/144: roughly 12.8 cm, scaling from the official 18.5 m head height
• 1/100: roughly 18.5 cm on the same scaling

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Frequently asked questions

Background sources: MS-07B Gouf — Gundam Wiki · グフ — 日本語版 Wikipedia