Dolos class

Class: Dolos
Ships of the line: Dolos, Dolowa
Unit type: heavy carrier ship
Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon
Operator: Principality of Zeon
First deployment: UC 0079
Dimensions: overall length 492 meters; overall width 351.5 meters; overall height 123.7 meters
Weight: max gross 144000 metric tons
Propulsion: 5 x rocket engine: total output unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 8 x 2-barrel main gun; 2 x 2-barrel machine gun
Mobile suits: 182

A product of Gihren Zabi's quest for the ultimate war-winning super weapon, the Dolos class is the largest dedicated mobile suit carrier ever built. With the capacity to carry an unprecedented 182 mobile suits, the Dolos can carry almost an entire corps within its vast hull. However, like many of Gihren's super weapons, the Dolos has flaws, the most principle of which is the lack of adequate launching facilities for its massive mobile suit complement. With only seven catapults, deploying the entire mobile suit complement can take more than 20 minutes. Only two of these massive ships are built, and both are destroyed by the Earth Federation Forces during the final battle of the One Year War at the asteroid base A Baoa Qu.

Appearances: Mobile Suit Gundam; Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space; Mobile Suit Gundam Ex Revue; Gundam Evolve; Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079; Mobile Suit Gundam: Spirits of Zeon ~Dual Stars of Carnage~
Original mechanical designer(s): Yoshiyuki Tomino (principal design), Kunio Okawara (cleanup)