Argama class cruiser (Gundam)

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Argama-Class Assault Carrier

Fast Facts
Ship Type	Cruiser
Class:	Argama
Launched:	Universal Century 0087
Class Fate:	Unknown
General Characteristics
Displacement:	54,031 metric tons
Length:	323 meters
Beam:	Unknown
Draft:	Unknown
Armament:	2x twin beam gun, 5x single barrel beam turret, mega particle cannon, AA defense, hyper mega particle cannon
Mobile Suit Complement:	Eight
Ships of the Line	Argama, Pegasus III

In the anime Zeta Gundam, the Argama (first of the Argama class), Captain Bright Noah's flagship, is a successor to the original Pegasus-class mobile suit carrier. To that end, the ship is designed to be a mobile suit carrier, and serves as the flagship for the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG), which fought the Titans and later the Neo-Zeon. Argama carries five main guns, a heavy Mega Beam Cannon and two twin beam guns, as well as six mobile suits which launched on two catapults. It was heavily damaged and finally taken out of service by the AEUG late in Zeta Gundam's sequel, Gundam ZZ, and was replaced by the Nahel Argama.

[edit] Class history

The Argama class entered service in UC 0087, as the war between the Titans and the Anti Earth Union Group (AEUG) began to pick up. They were designed as successors to the Pegasus class ships, incorporating firepower and mobile suit capacity into one ship. Two Argama class vessels are known to have been built, the Argama and the Pegasus III, named in tribute to the Pegasus class. During the first Neo Zeon war, Argama saw several modifications to its weapons and body. After returning to the La Vie en Rose the ship received a more powerful mega particle canon and structural modifications. Also the Argama has a Minovsky Craft System as seen in ZZ Gundam; when Argama was given to the Karaba on Earth.

The most famous ship of this class was the Argama, which became the flagship for Bright Noa, and Kamille Bidan's Zeta Gundam. The Argama saw much action during the Gryps Conflict, and survived into ZZ Gundam, where the mission for the AEUG shifted from fighting the Titans to fighting the Axis Zeon, now under the name Neo Zeon. During this new conflict, the Argama was upgraded with an extremely powerful hyper mega particle cannon, which was used in a failed attempt to destroy the asteroid base Axis.