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| Clop class cruiser |
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| Fast Facts |
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| Ship Type | Light Cruiser |
| Class: | ''Clop'' |
| Launched: | Universal Century 0093 |
| Class Fate: | Inactive as of UC 0223 |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | Unknown |
| Length: | 292 meters |
| Beam: | 133 meters |
| Draft: | Unknown |
| Armament: | 2-barrel main gun x 2
2-barrel secondary gun x 2
machinegun x 12
missile launcher x 6 |
| Mobile Suit Complement: | 4 |
| Ships of the Line: | Ra Clop, Ra Chatter, Ra Kiev, Ra Caim, Ra Keim, Ra Eym,
Ra Zym |
In the fictional
Gundam universe, the (also called the '''''Ra Clop''''' class) was introduced in UC 0093 as a replacement for the
''Salamis'' class cruiser. These ships are
Light Cruisers , and resemble the
''Ra Cailum'' class mobile battleship in design. Three of these are assigned to
Londo Bell , and saw action in the Second Neo Zeon war.
The first ship of the class, ''Clop'', was commissioned in UC 0093 at the same time as the new battleship and
Londo Bell Flagship ''Ra Cailum'' . This scaled down version of the ''Ra Cailum'' is equipped with two, two-barrel main turrets, two twin secondary turrets, six internal missile launchers (or torpedo tubes) and twelve anti-aircraft guns mounted in the aft, below the bridge. The ''Clop'' class sports six engines, but only one
Mobile Suit hangar.
The ship's design superficially resembles the Zeon
''Musai'' Class Cruiser used during the
One Year War . The ''Clop'' lacks the ability to shoot directly to port and starboard, as its main weapons are mounted on vertical walls of the ship rather than horizontally. Unlike its predecessor, the
''Salamis'' Class , the ''Clop'' class's hangar deck is somewhat more exposed, especially during mobile suit operations. Because of its greater firepower and better-protected mobile suit deck (despite myriad disadvantages), the ''Salamis'' class remained in service alongside the ''Clop'' class for much of the Second
Universal Century .
The ''Clop'' class never underwent any class-wide overhauls; however, the
''Space Ark'' seen in
Gundam F-91 appears to be a ''Clop''-class ship stripped for the training role.
