List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED warships and spacecraft

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 * For vehicles and aircraft like the FX-550 Skygrasper, please see Vehicles and aircraft of the Cosmic Era.

This article contains a list of fictional warships and spacecraft from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.

Like any military organization, the factions in the Cosmic Era depend on multiple ships to fulfill a wide variety of tasks. Listed below are the ship classes, the known ships of that class, and a simple explanation of the role in the battlefield. Individual ships do not have pages; their information can be found on their classes respective pages.

Earth Alliance/OMNI

 * Agamemnon-class carrier - fleet flagships, carry at least 12 mobile weapons; Menelaos, Ortygia, Doolittle, Oda Nobunaga

Archangel-class assault ship
Advanced transatmospheric warships derived from Orb's Izumo-class battleships, very well-armed and have high mobile suit capacity; Archangel, Dominion

Arkansas-class cruiser
The Arkansas-class cruiser is an Earth Alliance naval warship. The Arkansas-class and  the Des Moines-class cruiser, which only differs slightly in armament, are also known as the Danilov-class.

Design and Construction
Arkansas-class cruiser is armed with a dual anti-aircraft beam gun, a pair of CIWS guns, four 9-tube vertical missile launchers, and 10 anti-ship missile launchers. The primary role of the Arkansas class is to escort Tarawa-class mobile assault ships. Another design, the Des Moines-class cruiser, uses the same hull, but differs slightly in armament.

Conflicting ship name
The Arkansas-class is also known as the Danilov-class. It is possible that these are different class name used by Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation forces. In C.E. 73, the ZAFT battleship Minerva's sensor console labels the vessels as Arkansas class, but the ship's sensor operator verbally identifies both them and their Des Moines-class companions as Danilov-class.

The different class name used by Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation forces may related to differences of class naming tradition of United States Navy and in European navies. In the United States Navy, a class is always named after the lead ship; that is, the first ship of that class to be approved by Congress&mdash;almost (but not quite) without exception the ship of the class with the lowest hull number.

In European navies, a class is named after the first ship in commission, regardless of when that ship was ordered or laid down. In some cases, this has resulted in different class names being recorded in European references from their American counterparts - for example, European references report the Colorado-class battleships of the United States Navy as "Maryland-class", since USS Maryland (BB-46) was commissioned over two years before USS Colorado (BB-45).

Related Development

 * Des Moines-class, which uses the same hull, but differs slightly in armament.

Trivia

 * The Arkansas is named for the 25th state of the United States.
 * The Danilov is named for a small town in Yaroslavl Oblast, located in the Central Federal District of Russia.

Hannibal-class land battleship
The Hannibal-class land battleship is an Earth Alliance vessel stationed in central Eurasia. Unlike most ZAFT land vessels, the Hannibal uses four large tank-like tracks for propulsion. It has a considerable hangar space for F-7D Spearheads and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits, but its primarily purpose is to operate as the base of the gigantic GFAS-X1 Destroy.

Soon after the Destroy's completion, Hannibal-class carrier Bonaparte is assigned to Neo Lorrnoke's 81st Independent Mobile Battalion, and serves as his base of operations for a campaign against ZAFT-occupied territory in Eurasia. At the attack on Heaven's Base five more Hannibal-class battleships are deployed with each carrying their own GFAS-X1 Destroys.

Trivia

 * The Bonaparte is named for French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
 * The class name of Hannibal refers to the Carthaginian politician/statesman/general, famously known for leading an army through the Alps (also having elephants) to attack the Romans.
 * In the manga and anime Dominion Tank Police, Leona Ozaki's personal minitank is called "Bonaparte."
 * The supposed ZFT counterpart of the Bonaparte is the Gondwana. However, the latter is much bigger and can operate in the air and in space, unlike the former.

ハンニバル級 (機動戦士ガンダムSEED DESTINY)

Des Moines-class cruiser
The Des Moines-class cruiser is an Earth Alliance naval warship. The Des Moines-class and  the Arkansas-class cruiser, which only differs slightly in armament, are also known as the Danilov class.

Design and Construction
Des Moines-class cruiser is armed with a rapid-fire cannon, a pair of CIWS guns, four 9-tube vertical missile launchers, and 10 anti-ship missile launchers. The primary role of the Des Moines class is to escort Tarawa-class mobile assault ships. Another design, the Arkansas-class cruiser, uses the same hull, but differs slightly in armament. The designs are largely conventional, though with very large sponsons overhanging the sides of the hull.

Conflicting ship name
The Des Moines-class is also known as the Danilov-class. It is possible that these are different class name used by Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation forces. In CE 73, the ZAFT battleship Minerva's sensor console labels the vessels as Des Moines class, but the ship's sensor operator verbally identifies both them and their Arkansas-class companions as Danilov-class.

The different class name used by Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation forces may related to differences of class naming tradition of United States Navy and in European navies. In the United States Navy, a class is always named after the lead ship; that is, the first ship of that class to be approved by Congress&mdash;almost (but not quite) without exception the ship of the class with the lowest hull number.

In European navies, a class is named after the first ship in commission, regardless of when that ship was ordered or laid down. In some cases, this has resulted in different class names being recorded in European references from their American counterparts - for example, European references report the Colorado class battleships of the United States Navy as "Maryland-class", since USS Maryland (BB-46) was commissioned over two years before USS Colorado (BB-45).

Related Development

 * Arkansas-class cruiser, which uses the same hull, but differs slightly in armament.

Trivia

 * The Des Moines is named for the capital city of Iowa.
 * The Danilov is named for a small town in Yaroslavl Oblast, located in the Central Federal District of Russia
 * Oleg could be named for Oleg of Novgorod, the 7th and 8th century Varangian prince.
 * During the closing days of World War II, three Baltimore class cruisers were modified and reordered as Des Moines class heavy cruisers. Only two ships were completed, USS Des Moines (CA-134) and USS Salem (CA-139).

Drake-class escort ship
The Drake-class escort ship is a light space warship employed by the Earth Alliance primarily for combat against fighters and mobile suits. The Drake-class ships are functionally equivalent to the current day destroyer.

Design and Construction
The Drake class escort ship is a light space warship employed by the Earth Alliance primarily for combat against fighters and mobile suits. The escort ships themselves have no mobile suit/mobile armour carrying capacity, instead concentrating on weapons that can fight against mobile weapons.

Late in the war, the Drake-class ships are used to deliver nuclear arms and GAT-01 Strike Dagger mobile suits, the latter going into combat lashed to the ships' hulls.

Two years after the first war the Drake-class ships are still in service, but like the other Alliance ships they undergo some modifications. Two linear catapults have been added between the missile pods, allowing them to carry and launch mobile suits into battle. Unlike the Nelson-class battleships, where the mobile suits simply float into the catapult for launch, the Drake class have an arm that places the suit on the catapult for launch. Unfortunately, due to the restricted space the suits cannot be equipped with any mission packs.

In CE 74, some Drake-class vessels were further upgraded with a large positron reflector shield, which was mounted on a spar attached to the bow.

Service
 Earth Alliance Service  The Drake class escort ship usually employed to escort Nelson class battleship or Agamemnon class carrier. In some battles, they are used to deliver nuclear arms.

 Terminal Service  At least five Drake class escort ships had been seen serving Terminal at The Battle of Messiah. It is presumed that those ships came from defecting Earth Alliance officers.

Trivia

 * The Drake class is named for 16th-century English naval hero Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake.
 * The Antigonos is named for the Hellenistic king in the 4th century BC. He was one of the generals of Alexander the Great, and in 333 BC he was appointed governor of Phrygia.
 * The Xerxes is named for the two Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty: Xerxes I, reigned 485–465 BC and Xerxes II, reigned 424 BC.
 * The Seleukos is named for Seleukos I Nikator, who was part of the military aristocracy that contributed to the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II and Alexander the Great.
 * The Belgrano is named for Manuel Belgrano, an Argentine politician and military leader. The ARA General Belgrano light cruiser (formerly USS Phoenix), sunk during the Falkland War, is also named after him.

ドレイク級 (機動戦士ガンダムSEED)

Fraser-class destroyer
This article is about a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.

The Fraser-class destroyer is an Earth Alliance naval warship. It is armed with a rapid-fire cannon, three CIWS guns, 2 16-tube vertical missile launchers, and 4 anti-ship missile launchers. The primary role of the Fraser class is to escort Tarawa-class mobile assault ships.

Trivia

 * The Fraser-class is likely named for English World War II naval hero Lieutenant Commander Ian Edward Fraser.

Girty Lue-class battleship
The Girty Lue is the Earth Alliance flagship of Neo Roanoke's 81st Independent Mobile Battalion, also known as Logos' private army "Phantom Pain". While the Girty Lue has some features clearly reminiscent of the Earth Alliance's earlier Archangel class assault ships, it bears no markings of any kind, so the Earth Alliance can deny its existence if necessary. This is because the Girty Lue is equipped with a Mirage Colloid cloaking system, illegal under the terms of the Treaty of Junius. The Girty Lue can also mount a pair of external thrusters to prevent detection by thermal sensors. These thrusters function by expelling inert gas from their nozzles. While this method is much slower than the main thermonuclear pusle thrusters, it makes the ship virtually undetectable while cloaked. These thrusters and their accompanying gas tanks can be jetisonned when the propellant is expended.

The ship was deployed in late CE 73 to launch a sneak attack on the ZAFT base Armory One, in which three prototype Gundam mobile suits were stolen and several ZAFT warships destroyed or disabled. ZAFT's new battleship Minerva launched in pursuit of the Girty Lue, but ultimately the Earth Alliance vessel escaped and delivered its stolen mobile suits to Earth. During the battle the Girty Lue detatched the wings of the battleship hitting the Minerva head on.

Unlike the Archangel and Minerva, the Girty Lue is incapable of atmospheric flight, so after the Armory One attack, Neo Roanoke and his Phantom Pain detachment disembark.

The Girty Lue is later seen stationed on the Daedalus lunar base as an escape vessel for Logos leader (and thus Phantom Pain commander) Lord Djibril, who commanded the attack on PLANT from this base. When the Minerva attacked the base, Djibril tried to escape in the Girty Lue but as soon as the ship reached the surface it was detected by Rey Za Burrel who used the DRAGOON system of his ZGMF-X666S Legend to destroy the ship, killing Djibril in the process.

At least two more ships of the same class as the Girty Lue were built: The first, used by Matisse Aducarf, self-detonated near the end of the manga Gundam SEED Destiny Astray, and is never named. The second is the Nana Buluku from Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Stargazer, named for the Fon deity. The Nana Buluku is destroyed when a DSSD space station detonates its propellant tanks using the GSX-401FW Stargazer's propulsion laser.

ガーティー・

Nelson-class battleship
The standard spacegoing warship of the Earth Alliance's OMNI Enforcer is the Nelson-class battleship, a space vessel of which OMNI has no shortage.

It is heavily armed with three twin and one single main beam gun turret, as well as eight twin secondary beam gun turrets. The ship's crew is housed in an armored centrifuge in the midships section, which is evacuated and shut down during combat operations. The Nelson-class battleship also carries a number of mobile armors, but predates linear catapults and so does not have a catapult to launch its mobile armours. Because of this, the standard operating procedure for Nelson-class ships is to launch mobile armours at the first sign of trouble and then to advance with them into battle.

In CE 73, the Nelson-class has been upgraded with the addition of two linear catapults, making them effective (though small) mobile suit carriers. Because it was impractical to expand these ships' cramped hangar bays, facilities are included to handle and launch mobile suits from a prone position (much like the launchers used by the Principality of Zeon.)

Trivia

 * The Nelson-class is named for 18th century British naval hero Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson.
 * The Montgomery is possibly named for the British Army officer Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
 * The Cassandros is named for the Macedonian king who succeeded Alexander the Great. The Paris is possibly named for Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy, who is most well known for his abduction of, or elopement with, Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan war.
 * The Ptolemaois is named for Ptolemaois, the commander of Egyptian Satrap after Alexander's death, who took the dead body of Alexander which was in a golden coffin, to Egypt, and buried it in a marble tomb in İskenderiye.

ネルソン級 (機動戦士ガンダムSEED)

Tarawa-class carrier
Seaborne flagship and mobile suit carrier; John Paul Jones, Powell

Compton-class land battleship]]
The Compton-class heavy land battleships are ZAFT warships first fielded in C.E. 73. Unlike their predecessors, the Lesseps-class, Compton-class vessels use four large tank-like tracks for propulsion, similar to the Hannibal-class Earth Alliance vessel (this is due to the scale system being slowed down in non-desert terrain). The Compton class are heavily armed with two dual beam cannons, two triple projectile cannons, four quadruple machinecannons, 32 heavy missile launchers, and 20 anti-aircraft missile launchers. In addition, their large hangars can carry at least 31 mobile suits.

At least three Compton-class battleships are known to have been deployed on the Eurasian front. Two of these were destroyed by the GFAS-X1 Destroy during its rampage across central Eurasia, and a third, the Uhlenbeck, was involved in Operation Angel Down, a mission to eliminate the independent battleship Archangel, and was reinforced by the ZAFT flagship Minerva.

Trivia
The Compton-class is named for physicist Arthur Compton, and the Uhlenbeck in named for physicist George Uhlenbeck.

コンプトン級

Eternal-class support ship
Freedom and Justice support ship; carries the two METEOR prototype units; only one ship, Eternal
 * METEOR - mobile suit weapons support system (Mobile suit Embedded Tactical EnfOrceR), prototype; extends a Freedom and Justice-class mobile suit into a mobile armor, similar in concept to Gundam 0083's RX-78GP03D Gundam Dendrobium mobile armor

Gondwana-class supercarrier
The Gondwana-class carrier is a massive space warship used by ZAFT. Dwarfing even the battleship Minerva, the 1200-meter-long Gondwana is the largest space vessel ever built. The Gondwana ' s massive size allows it to carry hundreds of mobile suits, and mounts a total of 16 linear catapults for launching them. Surprisingly, the Gondwana is capable of operating on Earth as well as in space, despite its massive size.

At the Battle of Aprilius One, the Gondwana served as the flagship of the ZAFT defense fleet, and mothership of Yzak Joule's mobile suit squadron. Later in C.E. 74, it served as the flagship for Yzak Joule's attack on the Requiem stations.

Trivia

 * The Gondwana is named for one of the two supercontinents which was formed after the breakup of Pangaea.
 * The Gondwana can be compared to Mobile Suit Gundam's Dolos-class heavy carrier, which was also very large for its universe and was designed to carry entire regiments of mobile suits (182 total). However, the Dolos is more heavily armed than the Gondwana and is capable of ship-to-ship combat.

ゴンドワナ級

Laurasia-class frigate
The  Laurasia-class frigate (hull designation code FFM) is ZAFT's primary heavy fire support spaceship. It has carrying capacity for up to six mobile suits, and a heavy battery of two dual beam cannon turrets, two dual and two single rail cannon turrets, two dual 5" guns, six CIWS mounts (though two had poor placement and were more or less useless) and two lighter single beam guns, as well as four torpedo tubes. The egg-shaped pod on the underside of the ship contained its mobile suit hangar and catapult, and could be detached for use as an atmospheric re-entry capsule.

One Laurasia-class frigate, the Gamow, was assigned to the Le Creuset team and escorted the flagship Vesalius until the Battle of Orbit with the Earth Alliance's 8th Fleet. There, the critically damaged Gamow managed to destroy the 8th Fleet flagship Menelaos in a suicide ramming attack. Several hundred Laurasia-class vessels took place in the Second Battle of Jachin Due, and one is at least known to serve under the Serpent Tail flag.

Trivia

 * The Laurasia class is named for one of the two supercontinents which was formed after the breakup of Pangaea.
 * The Gamow is named for George Gamow, an astrophysicist and early advocate of the Big Bang theory.
 * The Zeigler is named for Karl Ziegler, a German chemist who won the 1963 Nobel Chemistry Award with Giulio Natta of Italy for developing catalysts that aid in the manufacture of plastics with greater uniformity, hardness, strength, and resistance to heat that leads to modern plastics.
 * The Galvani is named for Luigi Galvani, an Italian physician and physicist who first covered biological electricity.

ローラシア級

Lesseps-class land battleship
A large mobile ground base, it moves quite fast using a snakelike "scale system"

Minerva-class battleship
transatmospheric Mobile Suit Assault Ship (LHM), built to operate Second Stage MS Gundam units; derived from both Eternal and Archangel but of entirely new design; equipped with 2 standard linear catapults and a third dedicated catapult for the Impulse Gundam and its Silhouette packs; hangar capacity unspecified, but probably at least 10 mobile suits; LHM-BB01 Minerva

Nazca-class destroyer
This article is about a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries.

The  Nazca-class destroyer is a fast, well-armed space warship in the ZAFT forces. It is heavily armed with two large beam guns, two medium dual railguns, and 10 CIWS turrets, and has room in its hangar for up to six mobile suits. The Nazca-class destroyer was superior in firepower to the Alliance's Nelson-class battleship, carried the flag capabilities of an Agamemnon-class carrier, and was even faster than an Archangel-class assault ship. However Archangel-class assault ships had the ability to enter Earth's atmosphere while the ships of the Nazca-class could not.

One Nazca-class vessel was the Vesalius, which served as the flagship of Rau Le Creuset's task force. After several battles with the Archangel, Vesalius was destroyed late in the war by the Eternal and Kusanagi of the Three Ships Alliance.

In C.E. 73, another Nazca-class destroyer, the Voltaire, served as the flagship of Yzak Joule, and was accompanied by its sister ship Rousseau in a failed attempt to destroy Junius Seven before it fell to Earth. Another Nazca-class destroyer, refitted with the experimental Neutron Stampeder, was instrumental in thwarting a nuclear attack by Earth Alliance forces.

The Amzen, Rembrandt, Gansback and Bonstell were part of a ZAFT expeditonary force that was wiped out by Rondo Ghina Sahaku with his MBF-P01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame, upgraded to the MBF-P01-Re Astray Gold Frame Amatu.

Trivia

 * The class itself is named for the Nazca culture of ancient Peru.
 * The Vesalius is named for the 16th century physician Andreas Vesalius, who wrote the first complete textbook on human anatomy.
 * The Heusinger is possibly named for Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg, who invented the steam engine valve gear independently in 1849.
 * The Voltaire and the Rousseau take their names from the 18th century French philosophers François-Marie Arouet and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
 * The Holst is named for Gustav Holst, who was an English composer whose best-known work is his orchestral suite The Planets.
 * The Caernarfon is named for the famous Caernarfon Castle in Wales. It was built by Edward I as a military stronghold and also as a seat of government and royal palace. It was the setting for the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
 * The class's role and shape parallel those of the Musai-class cruiser from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

ナスカ級

Petrie-class land cruiser
The Petrie-class land cruiser is a ZAFT vessel designed to support the Lesseps-class land battleships. Like the larger Lesseps, they utilize a snake-like "scale system" to travel over both ground and water. The Petrie-class carry a weaker armament and a smaller compliment of TMF/A-802 BuCUE and TFA-2 ZuOOT mobile suits, but their power still dwarfs that of the Earth Alliance's linear tanks and other land vehicles.

The Petrie and its sister ship Henry Carter were both assigned to "Desert Tiger" Andrew Waltfeld's North African occupation force, escorting his flagship Lesseps until it was critically damaged and abandoned in battle with the Earth Alliance assault ship Archangel. In CE 73, another Petrie-class vessel, the Bagley, assisted the battleship Minerva in the Battle of the Gulnahan Ravine.

Trivia

 * The Petrie-class is named for 19th and 20th century English Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
 * The Henry Carter might be named for 19th century English engraver and newspaper publisher Frank Leslie (who was born Henry Carter), and the Bagley might be named for 20th century English journalist and novelist Desmond Bagley.

ピートリー級

Vosgulov-class submarine
Large mobile suit-carrying submarines; Tsuigara, Vosgulov, St. Helens, Neila Bongo

Aegis-class battleship
The Aegis-class cruiser is an Orb Union trimaran naval warship that is 200 meters long and mounts a 250mm rapid-fire gun, along with multiple anti-air and anti-ship missiles. It features a tumblehome hull construction in both the primary and side hulls. In addition, the ship has three landing platforms, which can each carry a "Heli" vertical take-off and landing combat aircraft, or a MBF-M1 Astray mobile suit. Despite the nation's small size, Orb possesses a large number of these warships, and has organized them into multiple defense fleets. The ships act as flagships for groups of smaller monohull Kura Okami-class destroyers.

Trivia

 * The Aegis class is named for the shield of the Greek god Zeus. It should not be confused for the similarly named GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam, a mobile suit developed by the Earth Alliance and stolen and deployed by ZAFT.


 * The design of this ship appears to be heavily influenced and informed by the real-world United States Navy's Arleigh Burke and Zumwalt class destroyers.

Izumo-class battleship
a modular ship prototype for the Archangel-class; Kusanagi, Izumo, Kusano, Tsukumiya

Kuraokami-class destroyer
The Kuraokami-class cruiser is an Orb Union monohull naval warship. Smaller than the Aegis-class cruiser, the Kuraokami-class has fewer missiles and only a single landing platform, but mounts a dual gun turret. The primary purpose of the Kuraokami-class is to escort Orb's larger warships.

Trivia
The Kuraokami-class is named for a deity from Japanese mythology. 

クラオミカミ級護衛艦

Takemikazuchi-class carrier
flagship; Takemikazuchi

Acidalium
Mars - interplanetary transport commanded by Martian Agnes Brahe

HOME
Junk Guild - a modified cargo ship, used as a salvage vessel

Lesseps
Junk Guild - salvaged and refitted ZAFT warship

ReHOME
Junk Guild - also a modified cargo ship, replaces the HOME

Silverwind
civilian space shuttle

Tsiolkovsky
Civilian - designed and piloted by George Glenn to explore deep space

ガンダムシリーズの登場艦船及びその他の兵器一覧