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Zanzibar
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Class: Zanzibar Ships of the line: Kerguelen, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Chimera Unit type: mobile cruiser Manufacturer: Principality of Zeon Operator: Principality of Zeon, Delaz Fleet Dimensions: overall length 255 meters; overall width 221.8 meters; overall height 70.5 meters Weight: unknown Propulsion: 4 x jet/rocket engine Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown Fixed armaments: 1 x 2-barrel main gun; 4 x mega particle gun; 5 x 2-barrel machine gun Mobile suits: 6
The Principality of Zeon's closest answer to the Federation's Pegasus class carrier, the Zeon Zanzibar class mobile cruiser replaced the vulnerable H.L.V. for the purpose of ferrying mobile suits to Earth and back to space. With a capacity of 6 mobile suits and a battery of bow-mounted mega particle guns, the Zanzibar was often used as the command ship for smaller fleets when a Gwazine class battleship was either unavailable or unsuitable. Lacking the Pegasus class' integral Minovsky Craft System, the Zanzibar could only operate for short periods in Earth's atmosphere, using sustained thrust. When being launched back into space, the Zanzibar class required a special rocket booster to supply the necessary thrust to break free of Earth's gravity. Several Zanzibar class vessels carried the bulk of the remaining Zeon forces at Odessa into space, including a large shipment of resources mined in the mineral-rich region. Another was used by Ginias Sahalin in Zeon's Southeast Asia base as a power supply for his massive mobile armor Apsalus III. It was later destroyed while trying to transfer wounded soldiers to space. The Zanzibar class, like most Zeon warships of the One Year War, lacked launch catapults, instead deploying its complement of mobile suits through a simple hatch on the ventral hull.
Captain(s):
Ramba Ral, M'quve, Char Aznable
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