YMS-16M Xammel

Designed late during the One Year War, the YMS-16M Xamel was the first true heavy artillery mobile suit, designed to operate as a mobile artillery gun battery. Equipped with a powerful hovercraft/hoverjet system in its legs and massive skirt armor, it could skim along the ground at high speed, giving it the ability to fire, move to another location, set up and fire again without giving away its position too easily. Its primary armament was its long-barreled 680 mm cannon, which could be folded up for transport when not in use. It also mounted a missile launcher pod for medium-range fire, but its close-combat abilities were extremely limited, with only a pair of almost useless arms and a 20 mm vulcan gun turret mounted in the head. The Xamel also featured a tandem-seat cockpit, crewed by a pilot and a gunner. It is unknown exactly how many of these prototype units were produced, although one Xamel is known to have been used by Delaz Fleet forces in its "Operation Stardust" theft of the RX-78GP02A Gundam "Physalis" prototype from the Earth Federal Forces in UC 0083, inflicting severe damage to Torrington Base in Australia.

Model number: YMS-16M
Code name: Xamel
Unit type: prototype long-range support mobile suit
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon (Delaz Fleet)
First deployment: UC 0079
Accommodation: one pilot and one gunner, in tandem-seat standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall height 27.0 meters
Weight: empty 75.0 metric tons; max gross 121.5 metric tons
Construction: titanium/ceramic composite on monocoque frame
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1080 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 6 x 10300 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.51 G; ground hovering speed 220 km/h
Fixed armaments: 1 x 680 mm artillery cannon, barrel folds for transport, mounted on right shoulder; 1 x 20 mm vulcan gun turret, mounted in head; 1 x 8-tube missile launcher, mounted on left shoulder