![]() Unfortunately, it was soon outclassed first, when Celestial Being began its armed interventions with its GN Drive-powered Gundams, and later when the United Nation Forces (of which the Union is member of) deployed the GN Drive Tau-powered GN-X series to counter the Gundams. With its excellent capabilities and performances, the Flag was the strongest mobile suit when it was rollout. The highly versatile Flag can adapt to different environment and combat roles by changing its parts and equipment, resulting in ground variant with extra armor, aerial recon variant, space-use variant, etc. There are also hardpoints/connectors located on the armor next to the elbow and knee joints for mounting various equipment, such as the defense rod. Additionally, the linear rifle can generate an electromagnetic shield during Flight mode to reduce air resistance, contributing to the suit's high speed. In consideration of air resistance, the sonic blade (plasma sword), missiles, and some other optional weapons can be stored in the Flag's limbs. Its basic weaponry consisted of 20mm machine gun, linear rifle, sonic blade (plasma sword), defense rod, missiles and some of them can be regarded as improved version of the Realdo's. ![]() The Flag's battle style revolves around its high mobility, and in accordance with it being a flight capable unit, it uses weapons that focus on operability and are lightweight. However, they cannot combine while flying separately. While the Flag's upper and lower body can be separated like the Realdo's, it has an additional spare cockpit (also called a sub cockpit) in its waist. The Flag has numerous tiny sensor elements embedded in its face to display luminescence patterns for intimidation, communications, etc., and the suit's main camera is located in a gap between its face and head armor. ![]() Furthermore, as the Union often deploys its forces overseas, it is impossible to have a comprehensive power receiver network for its operations. Unfortunately, the Union has yet to establish a comprehensive power receiver network in its territories, diminishing the usability of this feature. Īs a solar energy model, the Flag has built-in antennas for receiving solar power from the Union's Orbital Elevator via microwaves, and this theoretically meant that it would never run out of power. The cockpit's seat rotates to match the mobile suit's modes so as to enhance the pilot's resistance to G forces, this seat is in a recline-like position during Flight mode and is in a close to an upright position during MS mode. The Flag's cockpit has the same specifications as the Realdo's, and is located in the drum-like abdominal section of the mobile suit. The engines' hydrogen fuel is stored in the bonds of the carbon molecules that made up the mobile suit's frame, removing the risk of explosion when hit by enemy attacks, and also eliminates the need to set aside space for fuel tanks. The Flag has outstanding mobility and flies at high speed thanks to four hydrogen plasma jet engines, two located in the back-mounted main flight units and another two smaller ones in the sub flight units on the rear waist. This is thanks to the advanced piloting technique known formally as 'Graham Maneuver', and more commonly as 'Graham Special', that is named after its inventor, Graham Aker. However, it was not originally intended to transform in midair or in combat as doing so places high burden on the joints, but highly skilled pilots soon managed to achieve it. Unlike the Realdo and other earlier flight capable mobile suits, the Flag is designed to change modes without the need for parts swapping in bases. The main purpose of the Flight mode is not for travelling within the Union's territories, but for deployment to any location around the world as part of the Union's self-declared duty of being the "world's police". Like the Realdo, the Flag can transform between the humanoid MS mode and fighter jet-like Flight mode. It is said that the Flag's high level of completion lead to the AEU to use the mobile suit as a reference when developing the AEU-09 AEU Enact. Additionally, its model number is reset to '01' and not a continuation of the Realdo's to signify that it is a new generation of general purpose, transformable mobile suit. It is developed with a totally new concept in mind and not directly based on the Realdo, but it does have some similar features as its predecessor. The Union's latest mainstay mass-produced mobile suit in AD 2307, the Union Flag (aka Flag) is the successor of the VMS-15 Union Realdo (aka Realdo).
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