Recently revisited Mobile Suit Z Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, I reacquainted myself with the core body of Project Z and learned that it was indeed an excellent body at some point in the universe century. My friend said that the Z Gundam in the later stages of the plot may not have any advantage over titans' flagship model at the time in terms of output power, but the brilliance of a body is not only in terms of output power and firepower, at least after watching "Gundam ZZ", I think so.
Z Gundam's biggest selling point is that it can transform WAVERIDER and achieve high-speed combat with one-hit disengagement. The origin of the name WAVERIDER is that the shock waves generated when entering the atmosphere are concentrated at the bottom of the aircraft, so it is "riding waves". That's right, the aircraft has the ability to burst into the atmosphere alone without the need for additional equipment.
But at that time, I thought it was very strange, why the other deformation MS in "Z Gundam" did not have such a function, why Z Gundam deformation can burst into the atmosphere, and can also carry a hundred forms, query the data to learn, because Z Gundam received Camus's suggestion, created a "flying armor" and achieved high heat-resistant flight, and the later ZZ Gundam can not break into the atmosphere alone. But it was precisely because of this function that it was also the core combat power of Ogu at that time.
Although the main driver is Camus Vidan, in Gundam ZZ, the likes of Tedo Yashida and Luluka have both piloted the Z Gundam, and Jetdo is very fond of this body. In "Gundam ZZ", the early Jetto drove the Z Gundam to fight because Ogu had not yet sent a new ZZ Gundam, and the late Jetdo, who had been driving the ZZ Gundam for a long time, was moved by the firepower of the ZZ Gundam, but still asked Luluka to borrow the Z Gundam to drive, and the evaluation for it was "Z Gundam is easier to operate", in fact, from the animation, it can also be seen that the high-speed deformation structure of the Z Gundam is still a magic weapon for victory even in U.C.0088.
The body of the sequel, ZZ Gundam, is not so much a follow-up to the Z Gundam as a completely different series. Although it has obviously stronger firepower and defensive power, it is very afraid of enemy aircraft harassment in the process of deformation and integration because of its complex deformation structure... The complex deformation structure can be said to drag down the mobility of the ZZ Gundam, on the contrary, in the U.C.0088 era, the Z Gundam driven by Jetto was high-speed deformation, so that many MS with low mobility could not escape at all, and when the desert battle was fought, the high-speed endurance of the Z Gundam showed this advantage.
Z Gundam's high-output engine was similar to the third-generation MS such as gundam F91 compared to the popular large-scale MS trend at the time. In other words, although it was developed in U.C.0088, its design and concept are similar to U.C.0120, which is very advanced. But as my friend said, in the era of the Battle of Gripps, a high-output, high-firepower, high-armored fuselage similar to the ZZ Gundam has been developed, so the battles in the later stages of the plot are also easy to fall into bitter battles.
Therefore, the subsequent airframe will make a tank-like body like the ZZ Gundam.
Z Gundam equipped with a "biological detector" can be said to have the ability of the NT pilot to the extreme, so Camus can use some attacks beyond the conventional output, but this biological detector will not react to ordinary people, perhaps because of this Luluka did not show Camus's anti-heavenly combat power.
Because the design of Z Gundam is very classic, a lot of derivatives have been born, such as the mass-produced Z PLUS, and the simplified Lingus, which are all Amro's cars, and the Delta PLU that appeared in Gundam UC also belongs to the Z Gundam's derivatives. However, Amro, who later formed the Earth Federation Army of Landbel, still wanted to fly the Z Gundam, which was completely undefined.