MSK-008 Dijeh
Unit Type Prototype Ground Mobile Suit
Appearances
Anime	MSG-Z
Game	Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam
Profile
Model Number	MSK-008
Developed from	RMS-099 Rick Dias
Developed into	SE-DJ-1R Dijeh SE-R
First Seen	0087 U.C.
Manufacturer	Karaba
Operator	Karaba
Known Pilots	Amuro Ray Vanessa Vermillion Gaius Xemela Filius Stream
General Characteristics
Overall Height	23.0 meters75.459 ft 905.512 in
Head Height	18.4 meters60.367 ft 724.409 in
Max Weight	51.8 metric tons
Standard Weight	33.9 metric tons
Power-plant	Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor
Power Output	1892 kW2,537.214 hp
Sensor Range	11700 meters38,385.827 ft
Pilot Accommodations	Pilot only (in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in head)
Armor	Gundarium Alloy
Movement
Max Acceleration	1.43 G
Mass Ratio	1.30
Vernier Thrusters	6
Armaments 2 x Vulcan gun Beam Naginata
Optional Equipment Beam rifle, Clay bazooka

The Dijeh is a mobile suit from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It was piloted by Amuro Ray.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

This unit was quite similar to the successful RMS-099 Rick Dias in terms of performance. Like the RMS-099 Rick Dias, many of the engineers who developed the Dijeh were former Zeon mobile suit manufacturer employees, and its design does incorporate many Zeon-style features, such as mono-eye sensors. One of its most notable visible features are the large radiator fins mounted on its back, which also serve to give the Dijeh high performance during atmospheric flight. To help keep its cost down due to Karaba's limited resources, it employed the beam rifle used by the AEUG's MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki, as well as the RMS-099 Rick Dias' clay bazooka. For close combat, the Dijeh was armed with a beam naginata ("naginata" is Japanese for "long-handled sword"). The Dijeh prototype was assigned to Karaba's top ace pilot, Amuro Ray, who would use his new mobile suit quite well during their war against the corrupt Titans in UC 0087.

Armaments

• Vulcan Guns

Dijeh has a pair of fire linked vulcans guns on its head. These head mounted shell firing weapons have a high-rate of fire, but have little power and are generally ineffective against mobile suits; however, the vulcan gun can damage lightly armored areas such as the sensors. These weapons are ideal for shooting down small, fast moving, lightly armored targets such as missiles or small vehicles.

• Beam Naginata

Just like Zeon's MS-14A Gelgoog, the RMS-099 Rick Dias carries a twin beam sword, sometimes referred to as a "Beam Naginata". The weapon features a longer than normal handle and a beam emitter at both ends allowing the weapon to create two beam blades simultaneously. This allows the Rick Dias to perform attacks that mobile suits equipped with standard beam sabers cannot, on the other hand the weapon is more dangerous as the pilot must make sure not to accidentally strike his own mobile suit when attacking as the blades face opposite directions. When not in use the twin beam sword is stored in a recharge rack on the back of the waist.

• Beam Rifle

Dijeh carries a unique beam rifle same as Hyaku Shiki. It was derived from Rick Dias's beam pistol, power rated at 2.8MW, powered by rechargeable energy cap. The rifles are powerful enough to destroy an enemy unit with a single shot. If not in use, the rifles are mounted on the backpack of the unit.

• Clay Bazooka

Dijeh has an option to carry a clip-fed clay bazooka from Rick Dias. The Clay Bazooka is a large rocket launcher it could fire several missiles that that breaks into smaller pellets to attack targets at long range. While not powerful as other type of bazookas, it can takes a mobile suit with one shot. Most oftenly used to take out slow, heavily armored targets.

History

The Dijeh is a mobile suit developed by Karaba, the earthbound variant of the AEUG. Because Karaba was impressed by the AEUG’s RMS-099 Rick Dias the Dijeh’s design was based on the Rick Dias, and its performance also was quite similar. Also because many of the engineers of the Dijeh were former Principality of Zeon members, they used many design features of Zeon mobile suits, like the mono-eye sensor. A special design feature of the Dijeh were its two radiator fins mounted on the back. Also because Karaba didn’t have many resources, the suit’s weapons came from other suits like the MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki’s beam rifle or the clay bazooka of the Rick Dias. For close combat the suit featured a beam naginata. The prototype of the Dijeh was assigned to One Year War veteran and Karaba ace pilot Amuro Ray who used his suit during the Gryps Conflict.

A variant known as SE-DJ-1R Dijeh SE-R also exists, which is a highly powerful variant with massively increased performance. This rarely seen powerful mobile suit is featured as a secret unit in several games of the Super Robot Wars series.

Variants

• MS-110 Chaika
• SE-DJ-1R Dijeh SE-R

Gallery

MSK-008 Dijeh Gundam War card

SD MSK-008 Dijeh as it appear in SD Gundam G Generation Wars

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External Links

• MSK-008 Dijeh on GundamOfficial
• Dijeh on MAHQ