AMX-109 Capule

The 'AMX-109 Capule is a Amphibious Mobile Suit, appearing in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.

Technological and Combat Characteristics
As Neo Zeon launched its invasion of Earth during the First Neo Zeon War, they employed several new mobile suit designs built for terrestrial combat. One of these units was the AMX-109 Capule, which was a amphibious mobile suit based loosely on the old Principality of Zeon's MSM-03 Gogg from the One Year War. Armed with eight missile launchers, a sonic blast weapon in its waist, and a laser beam "eye" on its small, flat head, this small mobile suit packed an enormous amount of firepower for its size, all cooled by a hydro-cooling system. The Capule's arms could fold up inside its main body and its legs could fold back, turning the mobile suit into a mobile armor-like form that was faster and more streamlined when moving underwater. In its mobile armor mode, the Capule could also move along the water's surface in a fashion similar to a hovercraft. However, the Capule seemed to have lost many of the lessons learned by the Principality of Zeon during its amphibious mobile suit development during the One Year War. As a result, the Capule proved to be an inefficient design and was highly unpopular with its pilots - apparently spacenoids had forgotten how to build ocean-going mobile suits for use on Earth.

Variants

 * AMX-109 Kapool