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The Nazca-class destroyer is a fast, well-armed space warship in the ZAFT forces. It is heavily armed with two large beam guns, two medium dual railguns, and 10 CIWS turrets, and has room in its hangar for up to six mobile suits. The Nazca-class destroyer was superior in firepower to the Alliance's Nelson-class battleship, carried the flag capabilities of an Agamemnon-class carrier, and was even faster than an Archangel-class assault ship. However Archangel-class assault ships had the ability to enter Earth's atmosphere while the ships of the Nazca-class could not. In the Cosmic Era of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, the nation-states of modern Earth are replaced with a number of national superblocs. ... In anime, energy weapons which fire a colored beam of light are generally called beam guns. ... A railgun is a form of gun that converts electrical energy—rather than the more conventional chemical energy from an explosive propellant—into projectile kinetic energy. ... Phalanx CIWS A Close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a naval shipboard weapon system for detecting and destroying incoming anti-ship missiles and enemy aircraft at short range (the threat(s) having penetrated the ships available outer defences). ... Mobile Suits are humanoid weapon systems in the Gundam anime series. ... In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, the standard spacegoing warship of the Earth Alliances OMNI Enforcer is the Nelson-class battleship, a vessel of which OMNI has no shortage. ... In the fictional universe of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, the Agamemnon-class carrier is a large, wedge-shaped warship that can carry up to twelve mobile armors or mobile suits and deploy them rapidly using the linear catapults on either edge of the ship. ... This article is about a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ...

One Nazca-class vessel was the Vesalius, which served as the flagship of Rau Le Creuset's task force. After several battles with the Archangel, Vesalius was destroyed late in the war by the Eternal and Kusanagi of the Three Ships Alliance. Rau Le Creuset )[1] is a fictional character from the popular anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. As Gundam SEED takes most of its elements from the original Gundam series, Le Creuset would fall into the position Char Aznable played as an antagonist to the main characters. ... This article is about a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ... This is a fictional ship class from the Cosmic Era universe, part of the Gundam anime metaseries. ... In the anime series Gundam Seed, the Izumo-class battleships were powerful warships of the Orb Union. ... This article is about fictional nations and factions from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ...

In C.E. 73, another Nazca-class destroyer, the Voltaire, served as the flagship of Yzak Joule, and was accompanied by its sister ship Rousseau in a failed attempt to destroy Junius Seven before it fell to Earth. Another Nazca-class destroyer, refitted with the experimental Neutron Stampeder, was instrumental in thwarting a nuclear attack by Earth Alliance forces. Yzak Joule (transliterated as Izaaku Juuru [イザーク・ジュール; Yzak Jule] in the original Japanese version) is a character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. He is voiced by Tomokazu Seki in the original Japanese version (Michael Adamthwaite in the English dub). ... In the anime series Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, Junius Seven is a PLANT-type space colony that ultimately became the symbol of two tragedies of the first and second Bloody Valentine Wars. ... // Nuclear Technologies After the Bloody Valentine War all military use of these technologies was banned by the Treaty of Junius. ...

The Amzen, Rembrandt, Gansback and Bonstell were part of a ZAFT expeditonary force that was wiped out by Rondo Ghina Sahaku with his MBF-P01 Gundam Astray Gold Frame, upgraded to the MBF-P01-Re<AMATU> Astray Gold Frame Amatu. This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime Gundam metaseries. ...

Trivia

• The class itself is named for the Nazca culture of ancient Peru.
• The Vesalius is named for the 16th century physician Andreas Vesalius, who wrote the first complete textbook on human anatomy.
• The Heusinger is possibly named for Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg, who invented the steam engine valve gear independently in 1849.
• The Voltaire and the Rousseau take their names from the 18th century French philosophers François-Marie Arouet and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
• The Holst is named for Gustav Holst, who was an English composer whose best-known work is his orchestral suite The Planets.
• The Caernarfon is named for the famous Caernarfon Castle in Wales. It was built by Edward I as a military stronghold and also as a seat of government and royal palace. It was the setting for the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
• The class's role and shape parallel those of the Musai-class cruiser from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

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