AMX-109 Capule

The AMX-109 Capule is a prototype amphibious mobile suit. First featured in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, the design was later updated and featured in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The unit is piloted by Taman.

Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Capule is 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 beam cannon 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.

Armaments

 * Laser Beam Eye
 * Capule's monoeye is capable of emit weak laser with low power output, but enough to destroy the MS main camera. The sensor is covered by a protective filter when fire.


 * Sonic Blast


 * Missile Launcher
 * Can be used only for ballistic attacks, with range of about 30 km.


 * Iron nail
 * Connected to the ends of the Capule's arms, these weapons are extremely hard and can damage mobile suit armor if enough force is applied, although their resistance to beam sabers remains to be seen. Simply put, the Capule uses these weapons by swinging its long arms around.

History
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. 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.

During UC 0096, several Capules were deployed by the Zeon remnants in their attacks on Federation. One was seen during the Zeon attack of Dakar, but was destroyed by a MSA-003 Nemo. Another two Capules were used to attack the Federation's Torrington Base. Both of these units would later be destroyed by the RX-160S Byarlant Custom.