Hannibal-class
Unit Type Ground Battleship
Appearances
Anime	GSD
Profile
Ships of the Line	Bonaparte, Hannibal
First Seen	74 C.E.
Manufacturer	Earth Alliance
Operator	Earth Alliance Phantom Pain
General Characteristics
Overall Length	250 meters
Ship Accommodations	Bridge MS Hangar Destroy Hangar
Armaments 4 x Dual beam cannon 10 x Dual machinecannon 32 x Smoke dispenser
Mobile Weapons 36 x GAT-04 Windam GAT-X1022 Blu Duel GAT-X103AP Verde Buster GAT-X105E Strike Noir GFAS-X1 Destroy ZGMF-X24S Chaos

The Hannibal-class land battleship is a large land battleship used in the Cosmic Era timeline.

Combat Abilities

Although it mainly functions as a carrier, the Hannibal-class is well armed, with its weaponry including four dual beam cannons and ten dual machinecannons. Besides these weapons the ship also features 32 smoke dispensers mounted accross its hull, allowing it to hide itself in a cloud of smoke if needed. For additional defense the ship is large enough for several mobile suits to stand atop of it to shoot down enemies from above.

System Features

For moving, the Hannibal-class features four large tank-like tracks. It also has enough internal space to store a large number of mobile suits and it is also designed to carry one of the massive GFAS-X1 Destroy mobile armors, which can launch from the large, dome-like structure on top of the ship.

History

Ships of the Hannibal-class were built some times after the first Bloody Valentine War, with an unknown number of ships active.

In CE 74, a single Hannibal-class carrier, the Bonaparte, was assigned to Neo Roanoke's Phantom Pain unit and used to transport the Destroy, which was ordered to attack areas in western Eurasia which had alligned with ZAFT. During its movement, the ship was attacked by a squadron of ZAFT mobile suits, but defended by a trio of three Gundam pilots. What happened to the ship after the defeat of the Destroy remains unknown.

The ZAFT counterpart for the Hannibal-class, is the equally large and massive Compton-class land battleship, which is introduced at somewhat the same time as the Hannibal-class.