Gundam, driving a mass-produced machine will change the world

Chapter 146

"Gis, adopt formation 4!"

A Zaku turned on its eye monitor and locked onto the figure of a GM in the snow.

At the same time, there were two Zakus on both sides, encircling the Jim.

The next moment, the battle is about to break out!
The Zakus on both sides immediately stretched out half of their bodies, and the Zaku machine guns in their hands kept firing, and the cross fire immediately poured towards the Jim.

But Jim raised his shield and blocked all the bullets fired by Zaku.

Then the Jim activated its thrusters and rushed to the side of a hill, blocking the Zaku's rays.

However, on this hill, the last Zaku actually appeared there and swooped towards the GM!

He kept firing the Zaku machine gun in his hand, it was necessary to get rid of this Jim in one go.

Unfortunately, Jim only activated the main thrusters of the backpack, which drove the entire machine to jump backwards and fly into the air!

Zaku was not to be outdone and also activated its main thrusters and jumped towards Jim.

However, the GM clearly took off first, but when the Zaku stopped its upward trend and began to fall, the GM was still continuing to climb.

Not only that, the opponent even turned in the air, pointed the front of the machine downwards, and poured fire from the machine gun in his hand towards the two Zakus on the ground.

After a few bullets hit Zaku, bright red marks appeared on its body - these were paint bullets.

"Io! Don't bully the newbie too much."

Arcadia was sitting in the command vehicle and spoke to Ryan who was driving Jim.

What is currently underway is the testing of an experimental machine used for data collection as part of the Federal Army's reconstruction plan.

The true identities of the three Zakus were self-evident; they were captured machines that were painted with Federation livery and used as imaginary enemies for actual combat testing.

"Well, how can you grow without hard training?"

Loud jazz music came over the comms.

Io, who is currently driving this cutting-edge machine called High-Power Jim, is enjoying the operation immensely.

If you dare to play jazz music while driving a MS during a formal battle, you will surely be severely punished by the captain.

But now, Io can operate the machine to the rhythm of his favorite drums.

The push and pull of the joystick were in tune with the beat of the jazz drums, while in the air, the larger thrusters, which had more powerful inference and could work continuously for longer, were used to dodge the Zaku's shooting.

Immediately afterwards, this high-power Jim began to land again, even upside down, actively using thrusters to accelerate, and then corrected its posture when it was about to land!
"laugh--"

The double air intake and exhaust windows on the chest, which were used to cooperate with the large power reactor and thrusters, exhaled a cloud of hot air, and then jumped again to avoid the shot from the last Zaku.

"That's too easy, Lieutenant Uraki!"

"Yes!"

While instructing his new team members, he repeated his old tricks and resolved the battle with a machine gun in the air.

For some reason, Io always likes to fight with acrobatic moves in the air.

After ticking the last item on the form, "Leg Strength Test", today's test is complete. This enhanced MS developed by Yasuhiro Heavy Industries is very impressive.

"Okay, let's go back to the base. I heard that the Anaheim guys are coming soon."

Arcadia stretched in the command vehicle and patted the back of the driver's seat, indicating that they could move to the base.

The four MSs gathered and slowly followed the vehicle towards the Augusta base.

"The next round of testing will be the plug-in equipment, right?"

Since it is a MS produced by Hachishu, the backpack system is naturally used.

"That's right, but the Gundam will be here soon, Io, don't you want to give it a try?"

"Huh? I told you I don't want to drive a Gundam!"

Amid the noise, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

It is now October 0083, and the EFF reconstruction program has been underway for a year.

This time, because the federal parliament is still in a fiscal deficit, the plan introduced companies as participants.

A typical example is the Anaheim and Hachishu consortiums, which each inherited half of the Principality of Zeon's MS development legacy.

In addition to the high-powered GM developed by Yashio, there is also the custom GM, a high-performance MS developed by Anaheim.
However, it is worth mentioning that the custom-made Jim uses a lot of technology used in the NT-1.

This is because before the Augusta Research Institute was taken over by Eli, a lot of data and information were handed over to Anaheim.

Including the GM Cannon II, which was also developed by Anaheim, it also applied the NT-1's Chobham armor technology.

The battle between the two companies was almost open and tit-for-tat, but they also used each other's technology.

For example, Yashio Heavy Industries created the Alexander-class to compete with the Birmingham-class built by old-line shipyards such as Fokker Wellington, so Anaheim took over the construction of the new Pegasus-class.

As for the Gundam development plan, which is one of the core plans of the Federation Army's reconstruction, the two sides are almost fighting each other to death.

Just like when the Gundam development plan was first proposed, the two parties each developed a "Unit 0" in order to bid.

Yashio Heavy Industries developed the RX-78 GP00 prototype Gundam Unit 0 (Flower)
It uses the Core Fighter II developed by Yashu and acquired from the Hevich Company, and combines it with the module technology that Yashu has been developing. It integrates Fanhua's long-range beam rifle and Mie particle search radar on the core fighter.

When combined with the A/B components to form a MS, the two weapons will transform into a backpack weapon with many flowers. It is a machine that pursues high firepower, high power, and comprehensiveness.

Anaheim developed the RX-78 MS00Z Gundam Development Experiment Unit 0 (Contract Zero)
The aircraft's main goal is high-mobility combat. It can be equipped with additional thruster components, and there are plans to further develop external equipment, demonstrating extremely high versatility.

In response, Vice Admiral Gao Yun, who was in charge of the Gundam development project, said, "I want them all!"

Both machines had their own problems and further development was halted, but Yashiu Group and Anaheim won the bid at the same time, with Anaheim responsible for developing Units 1 and 3, and Yashiu Heavy Industries responsible for developing Units 2 and 4.

The above is the basic situation of the federal army reconstruction plan.

When Arcadia led the test members back to the base, they could already see a brand new warship parked near the base.

This is the new Pegasus-class battleship developed by Anaheim. It is the Gundam operational ship in the Gundam development plan. After two years of polishing, this Pegasus-class masterpiece, Albion, was developed.

On top of this, there are two Gundams, one from Anaheim and one from Yasu.

(End of this chapter)