GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike Gundam

The Sword Strike is the Strike Gundam equipped with the AQM/E-X02 Sword Striker pack. It is the second Striker pack to be used by Kira Yamato and the least commonly used equipment.

Combat Characteristics
The Sword Strike is a mobile suit designed for close quarters combat, thus making it the most suitable choice in an area where little collateral damage can be risked such as in a colony interior, or within the hanger of an allied base. The Schwert Gewehr sword is the primary weapon and its large size allows it to easily cut a mobile suit in half, or to cut off sections of a ship such as the guns.

Mounted on the Sword Strike's left arm is a small shield that houses a rocket anchor, capable of snatching and pulling in enemy mobile suits. As a secondary weapon the Midas Messer can be used as projectile weapon that often catches enemy machines off guard because of its ability to return to its thrower.

Ingelstellung
Mounted in the Strike's head are two 75mm multi-barrel CIWS. This light projectile weapons are used to intercept missiles and to destroy lightly armored vehicles.

Armor Schneider
Stored in the Strike's hips is a pair of folding combat knives. These knives do not need power from the Strike, can be thrown, and are rather effective the joints and under-armored sections of ZAFT mobile suits.

Schwert Gewehr
The Schwert Gewehr is the Sword Strike's largest and primary weapon. It is a 15.78m physical blade that has a beam saber emitter along the cutting edge. The large blade is designed to easily slice mobile suits in half or to slice large ships.

Panzer Eisen
A rocket anchor weapon built into the Sword Strike's shield. It has a grappling claw that can catch enemy units to pull them into the Sword Strike's combat range

Midas Messar
Stored on the Sword Strike's left should armor is a beam boomerang. It is a throwing weapon that uses the physics of a boomerang to return to the owner, often catching enemy units by surprise.

History
The Sword Strike was first used inside Heliopolis to counter a ZAFT attack comprised of GINNs using D-equipment. The Sword Strike destroyed one GINN it dueled using a combination of its Midas Messar and Schwert Gewehr.

Its second use occurred while the Archangel was stationed at Artemis asteroid. The Blitz had infiltrated the base and destroyed the light-wave shield emitters. The Sword Strike sortied it in an attempt to minimize collateral damage.

Ultimately it was the Sword Strike that destroyed the Blitz, at a battle that occurred on an island just outside of Orb waters. The Sword Strike had been about to finish the Aegis, but the Blitz de-cloaked itself as it attacked. In the resulting confusion the Sword Strike cut right into the mobile suits cockpit, killing the pilot and causing the machine to explode.

Trivia
The Sword Striker pack is the only pack Mu La Flaga did not use during the time he piloted the Strike.