Aircraft carrier survival beta series#

Aircraft carrier survival beta series#

However during later series like the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam the Alexandria-class cruisers and the Dogosse Giar-class battleships with Mobile Suit hangers have begun replacing older ships. This was the primary reason they came so close to being trounced by Zeon early in the series. Initially the Federation followed the 'you can only have one or the other' mentality, with older ships even being forced to carry Humongous Mecha strapped to their hulls when the latter were introduced. From the Musai-class light cruiser to the massive Gwazine-class. The Universal Century Mobile Suit Gundam and its White Base although Zeon had been mass producing warships with MS hangers well before The Federation made the White Base.Basically, any Cool Ship in the saga has to be a carrier to launch titular Humongous Mecha (and normal fighters) but, depending on the series, can have more or less firepower to make it a battleship. There are, many, many examples in Gundam.Ship-to-ship combat is mostly handled by dedicated battleships, of which the command ships are the most powerful (including Yang Wen-li's Hyperion and Reinhard von Lohengramm's Brunhild). While carrier-type ships do have cannons for ship-to-ship combat, they are not primary fighting units and use cannons mostly in self-defense and to protect fighters docking for resupplying. Subverted in Legend of the Galactic Heroes.In the Rainbow Galaxy battle, the Gamilons had a battleship/carrier that had a runway deck that flipped over to reveal laser cannon turrets.Even further borne out by the fact that the American Lexington-class of carriers from World War II were originally built to be battlecruisers.The Lexington-class ships are based on the IJS Ise and Hyuga see the Real Life section in the description.

Also more obviously the Lexington-class battleship carriers in the Comet empire series, which had two battleship turrets in front, and a carrier deck in the back.

In 1979 the series was dubbed and broadcast in English as Star Blazers, with the ship renamed the Argo as a Shout-Out to a similar story from Greek Mythology.

From 1974, the Ur-Example is probably the Space Battleship Yamato.

Both usually occupying the slot of 'scariest thing around,' but while the Battlestar is about the vessel's combined aircraft carrier/battleship nature, The Dreaded Dreadnought is about the tendency to call the scariest vehicle in a setting a 'Dreadnought.' Both fixtures of a Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, but both can and do appear in other settings. Not to be confused with the 1981 game show Battlestars, the elite Autobot fighters from Transformers: Return of Convoy, or John Walker's former sidekick.Ĭompare/Contrast with its primary competing/companion trope, The Dreaded Dreadnought. The largest ones may be examples of Mile-Long Ship or even Planet Spaceship. The Sidonia matches this type, as does the Enterprise -D. Its guns and air wing may very well have applications outside of combat, such as exploration, landing and dealing with the occasional Negative Space Wedgie.

The ship is not a war vessel per se rather, it is an exploration or colony craft, armed out of necessity to have the widest array of available options.The TCS Tiger's Claw is an excellent example of this subtype. This ship essentially behaves like a real life aircraft carrier, in that the primary offensive option is its embarked fighter wing, and the guns and armor lean more towards self defense options. The Battlestar Galactica is the epitome of this, along with the Space Battleship Yamato and Imperial Star Destroyers. This is essentially a capital ship with the primary offensive options being its own big guns, with the fighters to serve as interceptors against incoming enemy strikes or to provide utility and ability for surgical strikes when main cannons are too blunt of an instrument.

Naturally comes hand-in-hand with the Space Fighter given that strikecraft are an important part of a Battlestar, see also their Analysis page for some arguments on their use or lack thereof, which may have knock-on effects on the feasibility of Battlestars.Īs a general rule, the Battlestar is portrayed in one of three ways: May also have a 'little brother', the Airborne Aircraft Carrier. This trope is named for the Battlestar note a portmanteau of battle star ship class of warships from Battlestar Galactica (1978), one of the first such depictions to reach widespread audiences.