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AMX-109
Capule
Model number: AMX-109 Code name: Capule Unit type: prototype amphibious mobile suit Manufacturer: Neo Zeon Operator: Neo Zeon First deployment: UC 0088 Accommodation: pilot in panoramic monitor/linear seat cockpit in torso Dimensions: mobile suit mode: overall height 16.5 meters; mobile armor mode: overall height 9.9 meters, overall length 10.8 meters Weight: empty 38.7 metric tons; max gross 57.5 metric tons; mass ratio 1.35 Armor materials: gundarium alloy (bilayered) Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1840 kW Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 6800 kg; vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 12 Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.12 G Equipment and design features: sensors, range 12300 meters Fixed armaments: laser beam eye, mounted on head; 1 x sonic blast, mounted on main body; 8 x missile launcher, mounted in main body
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.
Pilot:
Taman
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