The Zakura Heavy Gunner
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Armed with a powerful U-007 Heavy Machine gun, equipped with a 200 Round Drum Magazine, the Zakura Heavy Gunner commonly known as the ZHG for short, was an official heavy support Mobile Suit for the Zenora Empire, and were introduced at the same time as the Shock Destroyers, in November of UC 0096, and were mostly used in order to provide suppressive fire against Zeon Mobile Suits during the early months of the Zeon Civil War, which in turn has enough punching power to rip One Year War Era Mobile Suits to shreds.
The armor alone is reinforced like every other Zenora Imperial Mobile Suit, with an unknown metal alloy, that is said to have been so powerful, that not even Gundam from the war 13 years ago would have been able to puncture it, this would mean had this Mobile Suit would have been around during the time of the war 13 years ago, the Earth Federation would have been obliterated, to the point that not Even Gundam would save them that day.
Unlike the Shock Destroyers, the ZHG's were known to be the most heaviest of armored, even beyond the SHock Destroyers, where during the Battle of Demarco Colony, it took an entire army of Zaku II's Doms and Gelgoogs, just to bring one of these heavy support gunners down.
The Principality of Zeon has never been able to find out the exact metal alloy origin of what is causing the Zenora Empire to have such powerful armored units, even after the events of Second Ruined A Baoa Qu on May 21st, UC 0097, there was still no source of breaking through the mystery, until it was discovered that the only way to bring down ZHG's would be to hit it from behind, as this was done by Heirshy during the Second Battle of Ruined A Baoa Qu, when 2 ZHG's had him and his entire squad of Gelgoogs pinned down, within the interior of Lower A Baoa Qu.
During the early stages of the Zeon Civil War, the ZHG alone was responsible for the the Zenora Empire's quick victories against the Principality of Zeon, but is also easily challenged by the Zeon Zock, which could handle punishment against the ZHG's U-007 MG rounds, while much smaller Mobile Suits, such as the Dom, Zaku II Gouf and Zaku I, could be torn apart within seconds.