Lesseps class land battleship

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Type	land battleship
Length	250 meters
Armament (ZAFT)	40cm dual cannon x3 vertical missile launcher x32 torpedo launcher x10 smoke/chaff/flare dispenser x34 optional side turret x4
Armament (Junk Guild)	large manipulator arm x3
Mobile weapons (ZAFT)	Lesseps: GAT-X102 Duel x1 GAT-X103 Buster x1 TMF/A-802 BuCUE x6 TMF/A-803 LaGOWE x1 TFA-2 ZuOOT x2 Desmond: TMF/A-802 BuCUE x4 TMF/S-3 GINN OCHER Type x3 TFA-4DE GAZuOOT x3
Mobile weapons (Junk Guild)	MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame x1
Ships of the class	Lesseps, Desmond
Designer	Kimitoshi Yamane

This is a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era universe, part of the Gundam anime metaseries.

The Lesseps-class land battleships is are ZAFT vessels designed to domimate the land, just as the Vosgulov-class submarines dominate the sea. However, it is more accurately called an amphibious battleship, as its snake-like "scale system" allows it to traverse the open sea as well as travelling over ground. It is heavily armed with 3 dual 40cm cannons and 32 vertical missile launchers, but like all ZAFT vessels, its most important armament is its mobile suit compliment. Unusually, the Lesseps lacks any linear catapults for launching its mobile suits, but as it was designed specifically to use the quadrupedal ground-combat TMF/A-802 BuCUE, this was deemed unnecessary. In addition, it sometimes uses a pair of slow but heavily armed TFA-2 ZuOOTs on its upper deck as a pair of extra turrets.

The lead ship of the Lesseps-class was assigned to ace pilot Andrew Waltfeld, the renowned "Desert Tiger", and served as the flagship of his North African occupation force, headquartered in the city of Banadiya. As Waltfeld frequently piloted a TMF/A-802 BuCUE and later a TMF/A-803 LaGOWE in battle, operational control of the Lesseps often fell to his subordinate Martin DaCosta. The Lesseps was abandoned after suffering severe damage at the hands of the Earth Alliance ship Archangel. It was then salvaged by the Junk Guild, which replaced its main turrets with 3 large manipulator arms for handling cargo. In CE 73, another Lesseps-class vessel, the Desmond, assisted the battleship Minerva in the Battle of the Gulnahan Ravine.

The Lesseps is named after 19th-century diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. The Desmond may be named after the 20th century religious figure and philosopher Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Ship Classes of the Cosmic Era

Earth Alliance / OMNI Enforcer Ships