White Carrier

White Carrier (ホワイトキャリア) were the largest and most powerful capital ships of Izumogakure.

Description
The angular warship supported a large number of laser cannons and missile launchers and was protected by heavy armor. It is very well balanced except for its speed. The armament features positron blaster cannons, beam guns, CIWS, linear cannons and several missile launchers, making the class more powerfully armed than either the Archangel-class or the ZAFT's Colossal Fleet of Battleships in Space. The true power of the White Carrier is however hidden in the ship's cavernous hangar bay: it supplies room for up to at least eight Shinobi and one Mega Man

Armaments

 * "Lohengrin" Positron Blaster Cannon
 * The most powerful weapon of the Archangel-class are two "Lohengrin" positron blaster guns (literally "Knight of Swan", named after Richard Wagner's opera of the same name), which are retractable and mounted inside the two front "legs" of the ship, directly below the hangars.


 * "Gottfried Mk.71" 225cm High-Energy Beam Cannons
 * The only other beam weapons carried by Archangel-class ships are two "Gottfried Mk.71" 225cm high-energy beam cannons, which, like the ones of the Izumo-class ships, can move into several positions. As with the positron gun the beam guns are retractable and mounted on top of the two "legs", thus providing defense capabilities while mobile suits are launched.


 * Missile Launchers
 * Besides energy guns and shell-firing weapons, Archangel-class ships are also equipped with a large number of missile launchers, divided into 24 x surface-to-ship missile launchers and 16 x surface-to-air missile launchers. These launchers allow the Archangel-class to fire a large number of different missile types.


 * Bridge Tower Missile Launchers
 * The lighter missiles, such as "Helldart" anti-aircraft missiles are loaded into and stored on tubes on the bridge tower. The light Helldart missiles are primarily used as their classification suggests, in an anti-air role, however they are generally ineffective at damaging targets with phase-shift armor.