ARX-014S Silver Bullet Suppressor

Model number: ARX-014S
Code name: Silver Bullet Suppressor
Unit type: quasi-psycommu test mobile suit
Manufacturer: Republic of Zeon (based on an Anaheim Electronics/Neo Zeon design)
Operator: Republic of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0097
Accommodation: pilot only, in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 23.4 meters
Weight: empty 41.1 metric tons; max gross 75.6 metric tons
Armor materials: Gundarium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 5,250 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 85,500 kg total
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 14,400 meters; quasi-psycommu system; 4 x replacement right forearm, mounted in backpack; crane and rail forearm replacement system, mounted on rear hip armor
Fixed armaments: 2 x 60mm vulcan gun, mounted in head; 2 x beam cannon, mounted on backpack binders; 2 x beam saber, stored in recharge racks in hip armor, hand-carried in use; 2 x grenade launcher, mounted in chest
Optional hand armaments: beam magnum

The ARX-014S Silver Bullet Suppressor was a heavily modified version of the ARX-014 Silver Bullet, which itself was a substantial modification from Neo Zeon’s original AMX-014 Doven Wolf. The Silver Bullet Suppressor was created from a Silver Bullet testbed unit stored aboard the Magallanica, and the “Suppressor” in its name referred to its function of deterring/suppressing hostile organizations. The Suppressor dropped the incoms featured in the Silver Bullet, and its head and backpack were substantially redesigned. The Suppressor’s modifications enabled it to use a weapon not intended for it – the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam‘s beam magnum. Due to the beam magnum’s heavy recoil, the right forearm holding it was damaged and rendered inoperable after a single shot. To compensate for this problem, the Suppressor’s backpack mounted four replacement right forearms, and a crane and rail system automatically replaced the right forearm after each beam magnum shot. The Suppressor’s other armaments included two vulcan guns, two beam cannons, two grenade launchers and two beam sabers. The Suppressor, assigned to former Unicorn Gundam pilot Banagher Links, launched from the Garencieres Jr. in UC 0097 when Zoltan Akkanen’s NZ-999 II Neo Zeong attacked the helium-3 storage base. Banagher fires the beam magnum at the II Neo Zeong, providing critical back up for Jona Basta, who had just ejected his Core Fighter from the critically damaged RX-9 Narrative Gundam. As a result, Jona was able to transfer to the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03 Phenex and later defeated the II Neo Zeong.

Pilot: Banagher Links
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
Original mechanical designer: Eiji Komatsu

Rear view