Agamemnon class carrier

This article is AbOUT a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.

The Agamemnon-class carrier is a large, wedge-shaped carrier that can carry up to twelve mobile armors or mobile suits and deploy them rapidly using the linear catapults on either edge of the ship. The Agamemnon class is the largest warship in the Earth Alliance and OMNI Enforcer until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship.

Design and Construction

The wedge-shaped Agamemnon class carrier originally designed as mobile armor carrier for Earth Alliance's space fleet, primarily to carry TS-MA2 Moebius. Later, after development of mobile suits by Earth Alliance, she also carried GAT-01 Strike Daggers.

For deploying mobile armor, she is equipped with two linear catapults on either edge of the ship. These catapults were also used by GAT-01 Strike Dagger when they were available. She also has extensive bridge facilities for service as a FlagShip. However, she only fitted two large twin-barrel beam gun as offensive weapon.

In CE 73, the Agamemnon fleet has been heavily modified, with the formerly sleek wedge widened across the beam and split into a fork arrangement to accommodate the new thickened and lengthened superstructure amid ships for stand-up launch facilities for the GAT-02L2 Dagger L and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits.

With the new arrangement, the former deck-edge linear catapults have been eliminated and all Mobile weapons launch from the centerline catapult instead. While this allows the Mobile Suits which launch from the carrier to equip Striker Packs, the downside of this design however is that the Agamemnon can only launch Mobile Suits one after the other, which cuts the deploying speed of this ship in half.

Characteristics

The Agamemnon class was the largest in OMNI Enforcer until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship. Although her two twin-barrel beam gun is relatively powerful, she lacks other armaments.

She is operated in a carrier battle group as the flagship, usually escorted by Nelson-class battleships and Drake-class escort ships.

Service

The wedge-shaped Agamemnon class carriers usually served as flagships for the space fleets of the Earth Alliance. The Agamemnon class carrier was also used to deploy nuclear-equipped TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armors, which attacked ZAFT's Boaz fortress, and later PLANT itself, with nuclear missiles.

Agamemnon

The Agamemnon is the lead ship of the Agamemnon class.

Menelaos

The Menelaos is the flagship of the Earth Alliance's 8th Fleet, which was under the command of Rear Admiral Lewis Halberton. She was destroyed at Battle of ORBit along with the rest of the 8th fleet.

Roosevelt

The Roosevelt was the flagship of a squadron of TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armors carrying nuclear missiles on February 14, C.E. 70. One of those Moebius' fired its nuke and destroyed the Junius 7 Colony, thus starting the Bloody Valentine War.

Washington, Doolittle and Oda Nobunga

The ships Washington, Doolittle and Oda Nobunga were part of the five ship battlegroup comprised of the Dominion and four Agamemnons that launched the Moebius nuclear squadrons at the Second Battle of Jachin Due. The Doolittle was the flagship of Admiral William Sutherland, a member of Blue CoSMoS. All four Agamemnon ships met their end at the hands of Yzak Joule in his GAT-X102 Duel "Assault Shroud", Kira Yamato in his ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, and Dearka Elsman in his GAT-X103 Buster Gundam.

Ortigia

The Ortigia was an Agamemnon-class carrier under the command of Captain Meriol Pristis, a member of the Eurasian Federation's "Special Operatives X". After Pristis went rogue with Canard Pars, the crew forged their own mercenary group, retaining the name "X", with the Ortigia as their flagship.

Trivia

• The Agamemnon and Menelaos are named for the Greek mythological heroes.
• The Washington is named for President George Washington.
• The Ortigia is an islet in the gulf of Siracusa, Sicily.
• The Doolittle was named for General Jimmy Doolittle
• The Roosevelt for United States President Theodore Roosevelt
• The Oda Nobunaga for the famed 16th-century Japanese warlord.

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