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| Irish class battleship |
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| Fast Facts |
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| Ship Type | Battleship |
| Class: | Irish |
| Launched: | Universal Century 0087? |
| Class Fate: | Production ended UC 0088 |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | Unknown |
| Length: | Unknown |
| Beam: | Unknown |
| Draft: | Unknown |
| Armament: | 2-barrel main gun x2,
main gun x5 |
| Mobile Suit Complement: | 8 |
| Ships of the Line | ''Irish, Radish'' |
In the
Fiction al
Gundam universe, at the outbreak of the
Grypps Conflict , the
Anti-Earth Union Group (AUEG) realized that it would require more than just the ''
Salamis Kai ''-class ships to effectively fight against the
Titans , so it was decided to commission a limited number of
Battleship s to act as command vessels for the AEUG's officers. The result of their work was the .
The ''Irish'' class was the first
Battleship ever commissioned by the Federation with the ability to carry and deploy Mobile Suits, as such it is not as dependant on its main guns, as was the case with the
''Magellan'' Class and
''Birmingham'' Class battleships. The ''Irish'' class sports two two-barrel main beam turrets, and five secondary single-barrel beam turrets. The ship also sports three launch catapults- two on the bow and one in the aft, which gives the ''Irish'' class a clear relation to the
''Argama''-class Assault Cruisers , which were under construction around the same time as the ''Irish'' class. The ''Irish'' class was designed and equipped with twelve rear thruster, giving the class a speed advantage against enemy ships, not unlike the American designed
''Iowa'' Class Battleships . It does not appear that these ships were given any anti-aircraft defense, meaning they probably relied on their own
Mobile Suits for defense against enemy MS.
The ''Irish'' class performed exceptionally well during the Grypps Conflict, and the remaining ''Irish'' class vessels were reportedly circulated back into the
Earth Federal Space Force at the end of the conflict. The ''Irish'' class would become a model for future
Federation Battleship development due to its successes in combining firepower with Mobile Suit capabilities. However, the loss of ''Radish'' at the end of the war underscored the vulnerability of large ships to mobile suit assault.
