RGM-79SP GM Sniper II

RGM-79SP GM Sniper II is the Earth Federation Forces' late One Year War precision machine, introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989, U.C. 0079). It was built on the RGM-79G GM Command with the thinking behind the GM Sniper Custom folded in, and it was one of the last GM types developed before the war ended.

What it does in the story

In 0080 three GM Sniper IIs form the Deep Blue Team aboard the Gray Phantom, deployed with a Guncannon Mass Production Type to stop the Kämpfer at Ribo. Two of them close with machine guns and are destroyed; the third fires the team's only sniper rifle from the ship's deck and misses. Other units of the same period serve with the White Dingo Team in Australia and in Lydo Wolf's black colours.

What makes it different

• The visor is a sensor package, not a face. Goggles drop over the main camera, and the head carries compound sensors, laser rangefinding, zoom cameras and image stabilisers built for long range work. Coolers in the head unit pull heat and electrical noise out of the array, which is what keeps a distant image steady.
• The thrusters are split between precision and pitch. Two backpack verniers are tuned for fine control while four large verniers in the legs supply the output, and the arrangement gives the suit its rapid nose-up and nose-down movement. The main verniers run along the machine's core axis, a layout the Nemo and the Jegan would later reuse.
• It fires projectile sniper rifles. The Franz EF-KAR98K 75mm rifle is bolt-action with a five-round magazine, and because it throws a shell rather than a beam it is not pushed around by magnetic fields or solar wind. Its rate of fire is poor, so it is a first-shot weapon rather than something to fight a mobile suit with.
• It is not limited to sniping. On paper its specifications were better than the RX-78-2 Gundam's, it can carry almost any existing Federation armament, and it was one of the few production suits that could meet a Gelgoog one-on-one. Very few were built, because it arrived at the end of the war and cost more than a standard GM.

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Background sources: RGM-79SP GM Sniper II — Gundam Wiki · 宇宙世紀の登場機動兵器一覧（M-MSV）— 日本語版 Wikipedia