Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Zaku High Mobility Test Type was an experimental mobile suit said to have been created as the result of a top secret collaboration between Zeonic and Zimmad led by the Principality of Zeon military, with the goal of modifying the MS-09 Dom for space combat. Featuring the upper body of a MS-06R series Zaku II and the lower body of what would become the MS-09R Rick Dom, this mobile suit served as the test bed for the Rick Dom's leg-mounted thermonuclear rocket engines. The ease of maintenance and engineering quality of its leg units were said to be superior to the MS-06R-1A Zaku II High Mobility Type's leg units.
History
The project that led to the creation of the Zaku High Mobility Test Type was said to have taken place one month before the MS-09 Dom entered mass production. its technical trial had been completed. One unit, piloted by Aina Sahalin, was deployed near Earth orbit to accumulate combat data, with three Zakus as escorts. It shot down two RGM-79［E］ GM Early Type deployed from Luna II and heavily damaged the GM Early Type piloted by Terry Sanders Jr.. However, it was later destroyed by the RB-79K Ball Type K piloted by Shiro Amada, causing all of its combat data to be lost.