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The MSM-10 Zock (sometimes spelled Zokk) is a fictional amphibious mobile suit designed by Kunio Okawara for the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. It has also appeared in the Playstation 2 Gundam titles Federation vs. Zeon DX and Journey to Jaburo, the latter in an even more ponderous, four-legged form.

The Zock was produced by the Principality of Zeon as an amphibious mobile suit at California Base, an Earth Federation base captured early in the war, in the last few weeks of the Zeon occupation of Earth. The Zock's bulbous design, with a massive torso, stubby legs and arms lacking manipulator fingers belies its utilization as a fire support unit. The Zock is completely symmetrical; a 360-degree mono-eye camera and a quartet of servo-mounted mega particle cannons on both front and back effectively allows the Zock to engage the enemy in any direction.

Its vestigal legs are not used for locomotion, instead mounting a brace of hover-jet thrusters. Combined with additional thrusters in the mobile suit's skirt, it simply hovers in the direction it wants to move.

Of the handful of MSM-10s manufactured, one participated in Commander Char Aznable's 30 November U.C. 0079 attack on the Earth Federation's Jaburo General Headquarters in South America (seen in Episode 29, Tragedy in Jaburo). Despite its heavy firepower, the Zock was dispatched by Amuro Ray with the RX-78 Gundam. The four-legged Zock encountered in Journey to Jaburo in the same situation is likely an artistic redesign, as opposed to a genuine in-universe variant, since it does not appear in any other major Gundam media.

As with most mobile suits from the series, the Zock received a 1/144th-scale model kit in 1981. [1] More recently, it was also featured in a Mobile Suit in Action (MSiA) figure two-pack along with the MSM-04 Acguy in 2002. Its symmetrical face (mono-eye track), and sometimes torso, has also appeared on Gundam-themed clothing items (most notably a baseball cap, complete with symmetrical front and back visors). [2]

Contents 1 Specifications 1.1 MSM-10 Zock 2 See also 3 References

Manufacturer: California Base Mobile Suit Factory
Operator: Principality of Zeon
Unit type: mass production amphibious mobile suit
Dimensions: head height 23.9 meters
Weight: empty 167.6 metric tons; max gross 229.0 metric tons
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3849 kW
Armament: photon maser gun, mounted in head; 8 x mega particle gun, mounted in torso (4 facing front, 4 facing rear)
Pilot: Braskinev

• Battle of Jaburo

• Zock at GundamOfficial.com
• Zock at MAHQ
• Zock products at Hobby Link Japan
• Jaburo Falls episode review at MAHQ
• Mobile Suit Gundam plot synopsis at GundamOfficial.com
• Mobile Suit Gundam at the Gundam Project (archive courtesy of the Wayback Machine).
• Gogg, Acguy and Zock SD model pack at Hobby Search (English)
• (2002-5-6) Gundam: The Official Guide. Mark Simmons. ISBN 1569317399