The Mad Angler class is a submarine class of the Principality of Zeon featured in Mobile Suit Gundam.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
Supplementary to the Jukon-class submarine, the Zeon wet navy needed to further their naval war machine with a large vessel to fill a number of roles in combat. The Mad Angler-class, as it became to be known, did all of these quite nicely.As a submarine tender, the Mad Angler is intended to help keep Jukon-class submarines supplied and armed in the field. Its two observation towers can be used to dock with Jukons while underwater and covertly transfer cargo and personnell.As a combat vessel, the Mad Angler fills a heavy attack role. Rather than be swift and nimble like a Jukon, the Mad Angler strives for pure firepower. For attacking land targets, the Mad Angler is equipped with ten long-range surface-to-surface vertical-launch missile bays. Originally intended to deliver nuclear weapons, they now usually carry a conventional payload. For marine combat, the Mad Angler is armed with nine torpedo launchers, all clustered around the bow and forward-facing. The Mad Angler is intended for the transport and fielding of heavy firepower, and it is no exception in either front.As a transport craft, the Mad Angler is supreme yet again. Its gargantuan hold can carry twelve marine mobile suits, and it is still capable of underwater deployment. Additionally, a special section of the hangar is devoted entirely towards the storage and maintainence of the new MAM-07 Grabro marine mobile armor.
Armaments
- Torpedo tube
- Surface-to-surface missile launcher
History
Its design is based on captured Earth Federation M-type submarines. Char Aznable joined up with a mobile suit unit of the same name operating off of one such unit in his pursuit of the White Base. Eight vessels were constructed by the end of the war.
It is later used by Neo Zeon as a submarine tender in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.
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