During the Bloody Valentine War (in Gundam Seed), the 130 meter class escort ship is a light space warship employed by the Earth Alliance primarily for combat against fighters and mobile suits. The escort ships themselves have no mobile suit/mobile armour carrying capacity, instead concentrating on weapons that can fight against mobile weapons. Late in the war, the 130 meter-class ships are used to deliver nuclear arms and GAT-01 Strike Dagger mobile suits, the latter going into combat lashed to the ships' hulls.
Two years after the first war the 130m class ships are still in service, but like the other Alliance ships they undergo some modifications: Two linear catapults have been added between the missile pods that allow them to carry and launch MS into battle. Unlike the 250m class, where the MS simply float into the catapult for launch, these ships have an arm that places the suit on the catapult and thus launches it. Capacity appears to be about 4-6 Dagger L's. Unfortunately due to the restricted space the suits carried onboard cannot be equipped with any mission packs.
Escort carriers were given the US Navy hull classification symbol CVE — this was sarcastically said by their crews to stand for Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable.
Many of the escort carriers produced were assigned to the Royal Navy for the duration of the war under the Lend-lease act.
Just about every important class of ship or patrol boat from World War II can be found in a museum or in a port, somewhere in the United States, except for the escort carrier and the light carrier.
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