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MS-06F Zaku II — Specifications, Lineage & Appearances

MS-06F

MS-06F Zaku II at a glance

Timeline
Universal Century
First appearance
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Developed from
MS-06C Zaku II Early Production Type
Led to
36 units — MS-06E Zaku Reconnaissance Type, MS-06F Zaku Minelayer, MS-06FZ Zaku II FZ and 33 more
Gunpla kits
20 catalogued

Interactive development tree and full data sheet: www.mobilesuit.dev/mobile-suit/ms-06f-zaku-ii

MS-06F Zaku II Mass Production General-Purpose Mobile Suit from Gundam Universal Century
MS-06F Zaku II

The MS-06F Zaku II is a mass production general-purpose mobile suit from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam franchise. It was manufactured by Zeonic, Inc. Within the franchise it is considered canon.

The MS-06F Zaku II is one of many variants of the MS-06 Zaku II series and was introduced in Mobile Suit Gundam television series.

Within the story, the MS-06F Zaku II first appears in January 15, 0079 U.C.

The MS-06F Zaku II was developed from MS-06C Zaku II Early Production Type. It in turn led to 36 derived units — MS-06E Zaku Reconnaissance Type, MS-06F Zaku Minelayer, MS-06FZ Zaku II FZ, MS-06J Zaku II Ground Type, MS-06MS Barbus and MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type and 30 more. Both directions are mapped on the interactive tree above.

The MS-06F Zaku II has appeared in 102 Gundam releases across 1979–2026, debuting in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979). Later appearances include Mobile Suit Gundam novelization, Mobile Suit Gundam I, Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space and MS Variation and 97 more.

It was fielded by Mass-Divers, Principality of Zeon, Coalition of Volunteers, Earth Federation Forces and Hell's Gate and 7 more.

20 Gunpla model kits have been catalogued for the MS-06F Zaku II.

Specifications

Model number
MS-06F
Classification
Mass Production General-Purpose Mobile Suit
Production type
Mass production
Manufacturer
Zeonic, Inc.
Canon status
canon
Weight
73.30 t
Power output
951 kW 1,275.312 hp
Armor
Super Hard Steel Alloy
First seen
January 15, 0079 U.C.

Production Timeline

The MS-06F Zaku II has appeared in 79 releases from 1979 to 2026.

  1. 1979 — Mobile Suit Gundam — TV Anime · 43 episodes (debut)
  2. 1979 — Mobile Suit Gundam novelization — Novel
  3. 1981 — Mobile Suit Gundam I — TV Anime
  4. 1982 — Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space — TV Anime
  5. 1982 — MS Variation — MS Variation
  6. 1985 — Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta (Manga) — Manga
  7. 1985 — Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam — TV Anime · 50 episodes
  8. 1985 — Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Manga) — Manga
  9. 1987 — Side Story of Gundam Zeta — TV Anime
  10. 1991 — Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory — TV Anime · 13 episodes
  11. 1993 — Mobile Suit Gundam 0084: Psi-trailing — TV Anime
  12. 1996 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny — Other · 2 episodes
  13. 1996 — Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team — OVA · 12 episodes
  14. 1998 — Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team – Miller's Report — TV Anime · 1 episodes
  15. 1999 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes — Other · 2 episodes
  16. 2000 — Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu — TV Anime
  17. 2001 — Gundam Evolve — TV Anime
  18. 2001 — Gundam Pilot Series of Biographies: The Brave Soldiers in the Sky — TV Anime
  19. 2001 — Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel — TV Anime
  20. 2001 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait Of Young Comet — TV Anime
  21. 2002 — Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart — TV Anime
  22. 2003 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Space, To the End of a Flash — TV Anime
  23. 2003 — Nightmare of Solomon — TV Anime
  24. 2004 — Gundam Legacy — TV Anime · 1 episodes
  25. 2004 — Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War — OVA · 3 episodes
  26. 2004 — Mobile Suit: Gundam Pilot's Locus — Manga · 1 episodes
  27. 2005 — Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 603 — TV Anime
  28. 2005 — Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Day After Tomorrow - From Kai Shiden´s Report — Manga
  29. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam Climax U.C.: The Bonds of the Bloodline — TV Anime
  30. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Apocalypse 0079 (Manga) — Manga
  31. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 — OVA · 3 episodes
  32. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire — Other · 1 episodes
  33. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation: Troy — TV Anime · 1 episodes
  34. 2007 — Gundam Crisis — TV Anime
  35. 2007 — Mobile Suit Gundam MSV Battle Chronicle Johnny Ridden — MS Variation
  36. 2007 — Mobile Suit Gundam the 08th MS Team U.C.0079 + α Tribute — Other · 2 episodes
  37. 2007 — Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Side Story: Mirage of Zeon — TV Anime
  38. 2007 — Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team U.C.0079 + α — TV Anime · 2 episodes
  39. 2009 — Mobile Suit Gundam - Zeon MS Boys: The War of Independence — TV Anime · 4 episodes
  40. 2009 — Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record U.C. 0081 -The Wrath of Varuna- — TV Anime · 1 episodes
  41. 2009 — Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record: Avant-Title — Other · 1 episodes
  42. 2009 — Mobile Suit Gundam Katana — TV Anime
  43. 2009 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield Record U.C. 0081 — Other · 2 episodes
  44. 2009 — MSV-R SEASON 2 / U.C.0079-0091 — MS Variation
  45. 2010 — Advance of Zeta: The Traitor to Destiny — Other
  46. 2010 — Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. 0096: The Sleeves Crew Chief Recites a Poem — Other · 1 episodes
  47. 2010 — Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: The Noble Shroud — Manga · 1 episodes
  48. 2010 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Principality of Zeon Military Preparatory School — TV Anime
  49. 2010 — Model Suit Gunpla Builders A — TV Anime
  50. 2010 — Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G — OVA · 3 episodes
  51. 2010 — MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden — MS Variation · 1 episodes
  52. 2011 — Mobile Suit Gundam The MSV: The Mobile Suit Variations — MS Variation
  53. 2012 — Advance of Zeta: The Traitor to Destiny (Manga) — Manga
  54. 2012 — Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost — TV Anime
  55. 2012 — Mobile Suit Gundam MSV-R Legend of the Universal Century Heroes: The Fabulous Shin Matsunaga — MS Variation · 2 episodes
  56. 2012 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Hunter of Black Clothes — TV Anime
  57. 2012 — Mobile Suit Gundam: The Hunters in Black — Manga
  58. 2012 — MSV-R: Legend of the Universal Century Heroes: Rainbow's Shin Matsunaga — MS Variation · 2 episodes
  59. 2013 — Gundam Build Fighters — TV Anime · 25 episodes
  60. 2013 — Gundam Stand at Jaburo — TV Anime
  61. 2013 — Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Rebellion — TV Anime · 3 episodes
  62. 2013 — Mobile Suit Gundam: The Blazing Shadow — Manga
  63. 2014 — Gundam Reconguista in G — TV Anime · 26 episodes
  64. 2014 — Gundam Reconguista in G (manga) — Manga
  65. 2014 — Mobile Suit Gundam Aggressor — TV Anime · 2 episodes
  66. 2014 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories — Other
  67. 2014 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link — Other · 1 episodes
  68. 2014 — Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link (Manga) — Manga
  69. 2014 — Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. 0096: Last Sun — TV Anime
  70. 2016 — Gundam Behind the Front — TV Anime
  71. 2017 — Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis (Manga) — Manga
  72. 2018 — Gundam Build Divers — TV Anime · 26 episodes
  73. 2019 — Reconguista in G the Movie I Go! Core Fighter — Movie
  74. 2020 — Mobile Suit Gundam Ground Zero: Rise From the Ashes — TV Anime
  75. 2021 — Mobile Suit Gundam Pulitzer -Amuro Ray Beyond the Aurora- — Manga
  76. 2022 — Mobile Suit Gundam N-Extreme — TV Anime
  77. 2022 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island — Movie
  78. 2022 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island -Doan and Rolland- — TV Anime
  79. 2026 — A boy with Gundam — Other

Games featuring the MS-06F Zaku II

The MS-06F Zaku II is playable in 23 Gundam games.

  1. 1995 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079
  2. 1996 — Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
  3. 1996 — Gundam Tactics Mobility Fleet 0079
  4. 1998 — Gundam: The Battle Master 2
  5. 2000 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo
  6. 2001 — Gundam Battle Assault
  7. 2001 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs Zeon
  8. 2001 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
  9. 2002 — Gundam Battle Assault 2
  10. 2003 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
  11. 2004 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam
  12. 2005 — MS Saga: A New Dawn
  13. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam Climax U.C.
  14. 2006 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield
  15. 2007 — Dynasty Warriors Gundam
  16. 2007 — SD Gundam G Generation Spirits
  17. 2009 — Gundam Battle Universe
  18. 2009 — SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Online
  19. 2010 — Gundam Assault Survive
  20. 2012 — Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (Game)
  21. 2021 — Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation Code Fairy
  22. 2021 — Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield II
  23. 2022 — SD Gundam Battle Alliance

Development Lineage

Developed from

Develops into & variants

Related mobile suits

Other machines catalogued alongside the MS-06F Zaku II — same series where one exists, otherwise the same timeline. Each links to its own development tree.

Operators: Mass-Divers, Principality of Zeon, Coalition of Volunteers, Earth Federation Forces, Hell's Gate, Invisible Knights, Marchosias Corps, Mars Zeon Independence Army, Midnight Fenrir Corps, Neo Delaz Fleet, Neo Zeon, Zeon Remnants

MS-06F Zaku II Model Kits

20 catalogued model kits for the MS-06F Zaku II, including these 8:

See all MS-06F Zaku II kits, prices and community builds

Frequently asked questions about the MS-06F Zaku II

What is the MS-06F Zaku II?
The MS-06F Zaku II is a mass production general-purpose mobile suit from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam franchise. It was manufactured by Zeonic, Inc. It is considered canon within the franchise. The MS-06F entered service at some point before the Battle of Loum and was used alongside the MS-06A Zaku II First Mass Production Type and the MS-06C Zaku II Early Production Type.
What was the MS-06F Zaku II developed from?
The MS-06F Zaku II was developed from MS-06C Zaku II Early Production Type. Its full development lineage is mapped on the MS-06F Zaku II evolution tree.
What mobile suits were developed from the MS-06F Zaku II?
36 units were developed from or built as variants of the MS-06F Zaku II: MS-06E Zaku Reconnaissance Type, MS-06F Zaku Minelayer, MS-06FZ Zaku II FZ, MS-06J Zaku II Ground Type, MS-06MS Barbus, MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type, MS-06RP Zaku II High Mobility Test Type and MS-06T Zaku Trainer Type (plus 28 more).
Which factions operated the MS-06F Zaku II?
The MS-06F Zaku II was operated by Mass-Divers, Principality of Zeon, Coalition of Volunteers, Earth Federation Forces, Hell's Gate, Invisible Knights, Marchosias Corps, Mars Zeon Independence Army, Midnight Fenrir Corps and Neo Delaz Fleet (plus 2 more).
How big is the MS-06F Zaku II?
The MS-06F Zaku II weighs 73.30 t, produces 951 kW 1,275.312 hp, is armoured in Super Hard Steel Alloy.
Which Gundam series does the MS-06F Zaku II appear in?
The MS-06F Zaku II appears in 79 Gundam releases, debuting in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979): Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam novelization, Mobile Suit Gundam I, Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, MS Variation and Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta (Manga) (plus 73 more).
Which Gundam games is the MS-06F Zaku II in?
The MS-06F Zaku II is playable in 23 Gundam games: Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079, Gundam 0079: The War for Earth, Gundam Tactics Mobility Fleet 0079, Gundam: The Battle Master 2, Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo, Gundam Battle Assault, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs Zeon and Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front (plus 15 more). It originally appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), not in a game.
Are there Gunpla model kits of the MS-06F Zaku II?
Yes — 20 model kits are catalogued for the MS-06F Zaku II, listed with grade, scale and release year on its Gunpla page.

Explore the full interactive development tree for the MS-06F Zaku II above, or browse every Gundam mobile suit. Browse MS-06F Zaku II Gunpla kits & merchandise (20). Reference: Gundam Wiki.