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RX-75 Guntank

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RX-75 Guntank
Guntank
Unit Type
Prototype Ground Mobile Suit
Profile
Model Number

RX-75

Launched

September 0079 U.C.

Manufacturer

Earth Federation

Operator

Earth Federation

Known Pilots
General Characteristics
Overall Height

15.6 Meters

Head Height

15 Meters

Max Weight

80 Metric Tons

Standard Weight

56 Metric Tons

Power-plant

Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor

Power Ouput

878 kW

Accommodation
  • Pilot in chest cockpit
  • Gunner in canopy-style head cockpit
Armor

Lunar Titanium Alloy

Armaments
  • 2 x 180mm cannon fire-linked
  • 30 round magazine each, mounted over shoulders
  • 2 x 4-tube 40mm rocket launcher, mounted on arms


The RX-75-4 Guntank was the first prototype Earth Federation mobile suit developed in the Project V of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam. However, the Guntank was hardly a mobile suit at all. The Guntank had the torso and arms of a mobile suit, but possessed tank tread-like legs. It also lacked any sort of hands and had a canopy-style cockpit on the head, along with the cockpit in the torso. Like all "V Project" mobile suits, the Guntank used the Core Block System.

The Guntank was developed when the first rumors of the Principality of Zeon's mobile suits reached the Federation. The Guntank was designed as an anti-mobile suit and artillery mobile suit. Although its performance in this role fell below expectations, it did pack a heavy punch. Its main weapons were twin 180mm recoilless cannons, which were effective at both long and medium ranges. The Guntank's two arms ended in four-barrel missile launchers instead of hands. These weapons provided good cover fire against enemy tanks and aircraft, but were less effective against enemy mobile suits.

At the attack on Side 7, only one of the RX-75-4 Guntanks survived the attack. The last prototype made its way to the Pegasus-Class assault cruiser White Base. The Guntank design fought alongside the RX-77-2 Guncannon and the RX-78-2 Gundam, but it was easily outclassed by them. However, after the death of the Guntank pilot Ryu Jose, the mobile suit was upgraded to be used by a single pilot in the canopy-style cockpit. The RX-75-4 Guntank was finally decommissioned at the Federation's General Headquarters at Jaburo, South America in November UC 0079.

In the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV anime, the RX-75-4 Guntank was not decommissioned at Jaburo but continued service on board the White Base until it was destroyed at the Zeon space fortress A Baoa Qu. The discrepancy between the two versions of events exists because the Guntank was seen more as a 'super robot' genre mecha than the 'real robot' genre mecha that the series was aiming for. The movie version of events is considered more canonical, as it reflects the latest version of Tomino's vision.

RX-75-4 Guntank first appear in Mobile Suit Gundam, design by Kunio Okawara.

Variants

RX-75 Guntank Mass Production Type
RMV-1 Guntank II


Early Universal Century mobile weapons (- U.C.0110)
Earth Federation
EFF / Londo Bell
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Anti Earth Union Group / Karaba
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Zeon
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Delaz Fleet
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Axis / Neo Zeon
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Independent Factions
Mafty Navilles Erin
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Vist Foundation
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Civilians
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