GAT-02L2 Dagger L

Model number: GAT-02L2
Code name: Dagger L
Unit type: mass production all-purpose multi-mode mobile suit
Manufacturer: Earth Alliance
Operator: Earth Alliance
First deployment: C.E. 71
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.4 meters
Weight: max gross weight 55.05 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; hardpoints for mounting Striker packs
Fixed armaments: 4 x M2M5 “Todesschrecken” 12.5mm automatic CIWS, mounted in head; 2 x ES04B beam saber, mounted on hips, hand-carried in use; 2 x Mk315 “Stiletto” rocket-propelled anti-armor penetrator, stored in hip armor, hand-carried in use
Optional fixed armaments: see GAT-02L2+AQM/E-M11 Doppelhorn Dagger L, GAT-02L2+AQM/E-A4E1 Jet Dagger L; GAT-02L2+AQM/E-X02 Sword Dagger L; GAT-02L2+AQM/E-X03 Launcher Dagger L
Optional hand armaments: M703K beam carbine; Mk39 low-recoil cannon; shield, mounted on left arm

During the Bloody Valentine War, the Earth Alliance created the GAT-01 Strike Dagger and GAT-01A1 Dagger to combat ZAFT’s mobile suits. In the postwar period, the GAT-02L2 Dagger L was introduced as the successor to the Strike Dagger and Dagger. The improved Dagger L had the ability to use Striker packs, which the Strike Dagger lacked. The Dagger L also had double the number of vulcan guns and beam sabers. Its main hand armament was a beam carbine, but it could also use a low-recoil cannon. In addition, two “Stiletto” anti-armor penetrators were stored in the hips. In late C.E. 73, the Dagger L functioned as the Alliance’s main mass production mobile suit until the Break the World incident, in which a group of extremist Coordinators dropped the remains of the Junius Seven PLANT onto Earth and caused heavy damage. Afterwards, the Dagger L series was slowly replaced with a new mass production model, the GAT-04 Windam.

Pilot(s): Izawa, Harada
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
Note: “Phantom Pain unit colors” custom lineart by Red Zaku

Cockpit hatch

ES04B beam saber

Head

M703K beam carbine

Mk39 low-recoil cannon

Mk315 “Stiletto” rocket-propelled anti-armor penetrator

Rear view

Shield