The MS-07 Gouf is Zeon's first mobile suit for land-based melee combat, greatly redesigning the MS-06 Zaku (II) from its predecessor, with enhanced armor strength and offensive capabilities. Designed with anti-mobile suit battles in mind, it was completed as perhaps the best melee fighter of the One Year War. Unfortunately, beam weapons could not be installed until the end of the war due to the power output of the on-board generator, but there are evaluations that the MS-14G model introduced at the end of the war had a higher overall performance than this. , and provided sufficient combat data for the design and development of the mobile suit MS-18, which was also specialized for combat.
The MS-07 type was originally targeted for standard deployment as the MS-07B type in the original official adoption frame, but several derivative types have been prototyped using this extremely good aircraft. The representative ones are the flight type H series, which is widely known, but there is also the heavy combat type C series, which was created using a local repair kit and received post-approval. In this example, the improved MS-07C-3 deployed in Europe is famous, and the aircraft specialized for assault type changed both arms to the machine gun type like MS-07H, and the number of bullets carried was greatly increased by the detachable magazine. is increasing to In addition, it has been confirmed that, with the exception of some aircraft, it was replaced with an enlarged caliber 85mm gun.
The MS-07C-5 type, which has been officially approved as a special machine number for the C series but has little documentation, has long been regarded as a demonstration machine for the YMS-09 Dom, which was under development at Tsimat. However, it is an aircraft manufactured at the Tsimat manufacturing factory that was conducting licensed production of the MS-07B type, and it was actually manufactured under the direction of the Mobile Assault Force, which took over management and operation from the Zeon Earth Attack Force. was clarified by the overview of the integrated development plan. The main monitor camera system and heat saber mounting test of the new standard manufactured in the development of the 09 type preceded the implementation test, and the purpose was to precede the adjustment period of the heavy mobile suit MS-09 Dom's thermonuclear jet engine. In the post-war investigation, it became clear from the testimony of a person belonging to the engineering department in charge that this was to conduct these actual combat tests. In this aircraft, the 07 type aircraft has a downscaled layout of the 09 auxiliary hover driving thrust equipment, and although it is not equipped with the officially adopted deflection field device, even the 07 class mobile suit has the same type as the 09 type. It is said that the military has issued a trial production order to verify whether it can be operated.
There are testimonies that at least five aircraft were actually produced, and in recent years it has been verified and confirmed by recorded images of the Earth Federation Forces that three aircraft were used by the night raid unit during the Odessa operation. There is a strong theory that this machine was reported to be a small Dom that moved at high speed on the surface of the earth).