RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type

RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type
RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type
Unit Type
Mass Production Commander-use Space Mobile Suit
Profile
Developed from	RGM-79G GM Command
Developed Into	RGM-79N GM Custom
Variants	RGM-79GL GM Command Light Armor
First Seen	October, 0079 U.C.
Manufacturer	Earth Federation Forces
Operator	Earth Federation Forces
Known Pilots	Tenneth A. Jung Bernard Monsha Alpha A. Bate Chap Adel Hugues Courand Franklin Novotny Yuu Kajima
General Characteristics
Head Height	18.0 meters59.055 ft <br />708.661 in <br />
Max Weight	76.5 metric tons
Empty Weight	44.6 metric tons
Power-plant	Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor
Power Output	1390 kW1,864.021 hp <br />
Sensor Range	6000 meters19,685.039 ft <br />
Pilot Accommodations	Pilot only (in standard cockpit in torso)
Armor	Titanium/ceramic composite
Movement
Max Acceleration	0.97 G
Max Speed	120 km/h74.565 mph <br />
180° Turning Time	1.5 s1,500 ms <br />
Rocket Thrusters	2 x 21000 kg46,297.062 lb <br />23.149 tons <br /> 2 x 16000 kg35,273.952 lb <br />17.637 tons <br />
Vernier Thrusters	14
Real World
Mechanical Designer	Yutaka Izubuchi
Appearances*
OVA	0080: WitP IGLOO: A0079 BR: A-T
Game	Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn

The RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type is an Earth Federation mobile suit. It was first featured in the OVA series Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket.

Technology and Combat Characteristics

The RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type, a specialized space combat version of the RGM-79G GM Command developed for use on Earth and in colonies. While the Space Type was visually similar to the regular GM Command besides the standard GM paint scheme, the Space Type mounted an enhanced backpack equipped with more maneuvering verniers and more powerful rocket thrusters. By removing equipment not needed in a gravitational environment, more internal space was freed up in the Space Type, allowing it to be equipped with additional verniers and larger fuel propellant tank.

Armaments

• 60mm Vulcan Gun

A standard armament of the mobile suits that are descended from the Earth Federation Forces's RX series is a pair of head mounted 60mm vulcan guns. These shell firing weapons have a high-rate of fire but have little power and can't damage the thick armor of a mobile suit, though it can damage lightly armored areas such as the sensors. The weapons are ideal for shooting down small, fast moving, lightly armored targets such as missiles, small land vehicles, and attack helicopters.

• Beam Saber

Unlike the standard GM, which has only 1 beam saber stored on its backpack, the GM Command has 2 beam sabers stored on the back of its skirt armor.

• NFHI RGM-M-Sh-AGD Shield

Shields are simple in their design, being essentially thick slabs of metal that the equipped mobile suit can use to absorb the impact from attacks that, for whatever reason, cannot be dodged. However shields can only withstand so much pressure before becoming damaged themselves. As technology progressed it became necessary for shields to be treated with an anti-beam coating as a measure of defense against beam weapons which can normally penetrate any physical barrier, however the coating gets gradually burned away each time a beam strikes it until it is rendered useless.

Typically shields used by GM series mobile suits are almost the length of the mobile suit's height and are carried in the left hand.

• HWF GMG·MG79-90mm Bullpup Machine Gun

Because of the expense and difficulty of producing beam rifles, or even beam spray guns, the Earth Federation also produced mobile suit sized machine guns and bazookas, similar to what Zeon's Zaku mobile suits used, because they are cheaper and easier to produce, requires less energy, and is overall easier to maintain because it relies on older, less complex, well known technology. In addition machine guns had the advantage of holding considerably vastly greater amounts of ammunition, and mobile suits could carry fresh clips around to reload their weapons should the current clip run out. This allows a mobile suit to operate with greater independence as during the One Year War the only known way to rearm a spent beam rifle was to return to a base with the proper recharging equipment.

The trade off is that machine guns are less effective. If a beam rifle or beam spray gun should so much as glance off of an arm or a leg, that limb will be rendered useless if it is not outright destroyed, and a hit to the torso is almost always fatal. Machine guns have greater difficulty penetrating the armor of a mobile suit, and must typically be fired from at least mid-range with multiple shots hitting the target before it can take down the target. And even then it is not always a sure thing.

• BOWA BG-M-79F-3A Beam Gun

The GM Command Space Type comes equipped with a beam gun, a standard particle beam weapon used by the Federation which like many beam weapons of the One Year War is powered by a rechargeable energy cap.

• 380mm Hyper Bazooka

Similar to the Zaku's Bazooka, the Hyper Bazooka was a heavy weapon used by the GM. Technically a large rocket launcher it could fire several 380mm missiles to attack targets at long range. While very powerful the Hyper Bazooka had a slow rate of fire and fairly little of ammunition. Most oftenly used to take out slow, heavily armored targets.

History

In the last weeks of the One Year War, the Earth Federation Forces refined its mobile suit manufacturing processes and developed several variants of the standard GM. It was during this time that the RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type was developed as a commander use version of the standard GM Space Type, along its brother unit, the RGM-79G GM Command. However, due to its high cost, both variants of the GM Command only appeared in limited quantities near the end of the war, with two units assigned to the Scarlet Team in defense of the Libot colony at Side 6.

Variants

• RGM-79GL GM Command Light Armor

Gallery

Head

Backpack

BOWA BG-M-79F-3A Beam Gun

HWF GMG·MG79-90mm Bullpup Machine Gun

Beam saber

GM Command Space Type equipped with Hyper Bazooka

GM Command Hammer Head

GM Command Hammer Head

External Links

• GM Command Space Type on MAHQ

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