Compton-class
Unit Type Ground Battleship
Profile
Ships of the Line	Compton, Uhlenbeck
Manufacturer	ZAFT
Operator	ZAFT
General Characteristics
Overall Length	250 meters
Ship Accommodations	Bridge
Armaments 2 x Triple projectile cannon 2 x Dual beam cannon 4 x Quadruple machinecannon 32 x Heavy missile launcher 20 x Anti-aircraft missile launcher
Mobile Weapons 12+ AMA-953 BABI 6 x AMRF-101C AWACS DINN 2 x TFA-4DE GAZuOOT 11+ TMF/A-802 BuCUE

The Compton is a land battleship in the series Gundam SEED Destiny.

Combat Abilities

Being a land battleship, the Compton-class is heavily armed with beam cannons, machine guns and missile launchers. In terms of beam weaponry, the battleship mounts two dual beam cannons, while shell-firing weapons are made up of two triple projectile cannons and four quadruple machinecannons. Lastly, the greates amount of weaponry comes in form of missile launchers, which include 32 heavy missile launchers and 20 anti-aircraft missile launchers.

Besides these fixed armaments, the Compton-class can carry at least 31 mobile suits, which makes this class of land battleships function also as carriers. The Compton-class dominates the land.

History

The Compton-class heavy land battleships are a new addition to ZAFT's ground battleships. They are fielded for the first time after the Bloody Valentine War. Unlike their predecessors, the Lesseps-class land battleship, the Compton-class vessels use four large tank-like tracks for propulsion, similar to the Hannibal-class land battleship Earth Alliance vessel (this is due to the scale system being slowed down in non-desert terrain).

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. The Uhlenbeck later got reinforcements from the ZAFT flagship Minerva.

External Links

Compton on MAHQ