The Mad Angler class is a submarine class of the Principality of Zeon featured in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
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 personnel.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 nine 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 maintenance of the new MAM-07 Grublo marine mobile armor.
Armaments
- Torpedo Tube
- Surface-to-Surface Missile Launcher
History
Its design is based on captured Earth Federation Forces Lockwood-class submarines and modified into Mad Angler-class vessels. 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 modified 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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