J-Lead wrote:Gelgoog Jager wrote:J-Lead wrote:And that's the "Silver Bullet" which is a Mass production MS that derives elements from the Doven Wolf and the Gundam MK V (which are pretty much related as it is, anyway.)
I thought that the Silver Bullet was just an experimental model built by the Vist Foundation. Is it confirmed that it is a mass production model, and if so, does the Federation also use it?
I was under the impression that the four we see in Bande Destinee were meant to serve as trial units to test it's feasibility as a mass production MS, since it doesn't really do a whole lot that wasn't already done by previous MS. Four units counts as a "production run" to me. :/
Well, four trial units of the EMS-10 Zudah were also produced and we know how that ended
. But then we have the Rezel, which so far seems to have had a production run of only 12 units (including 3 commander types), and yet it is considered a mass produced unit, so who knows.
Back to the number of ARX-014 units, I think that there might be as many as 6 units, including the one with the Gundam head:
During the battle between 4 ARX-014 against the RX-0, one (Gundam head) loses its left arm and is stabbed through the chest, a second one loses at least both its right arm and leg, the third unit is only seen kneed by the RX-0, without any visible damage, and the fourth unit survives. Out of these, we are told that 3 pilots died, which indicate that despite that we don't see unit 2 attacked directly in the chest, the pilot was still killed, whether by another unseen attack from the RX-0 or maybe secondary explosion. Unit 3 doesn't seem to receive any significant damage at all from the RX-0's attack, so either the impact was strong enough to kill the pilot (unlikely after with the airbags included in MS cockpits since CCA) or the RX-0 made more unseen attacks on it.
Either way, when Londo Bells launches its attack on Industrial 7, Ridhe's Rezel team engages 3 complete ARX-014, which include the pilot of the fourth unit of the previous encounter. It's unknown if the other 2 units are additional units or if they are units from the previous battle that were hastily repaired, though I feel more inclined to think that those are additional units, giving us a grand total of 6.
