Type-III Armored Assault Ship

The Type-III Armored Assault Ship is like the previous two types of Armored Assault Ship are not really a class of ship but a general common overall name for a series of different ships. This is mainly thanks to the sheer modifications and changes made to many ships of the type.

Design Overview
Overall, the Type-III Armored Assault Ships are a slightly larger more robust version of the more common Type-II Armored Assault Ship. Other than that there is no real difference between the two types.

Even then like all of the Armored Assault Ships the Type-III ships are a hybrid design of civilian and military design philosophy. They were designed to serve as armed and armored transport ships that could stand up against attacking military ships if required. This was mainly done thanks to the sheer overall chaos that happened after the end of the Calamity Wars.

Like much of the other Armored Assault Ships much of the ship's cargo bays are situated in the large 'fin' like aft section while much of the main crew quarters, mess halls, hangar, secondary cargo bays and other such locations are gathered in the front half of the ship.

Armaments
Much of the Type-III Armored Assault Ships sport five of these weapons with four gathered on the side pontoons with dedicated slides that allow the guns traverse towards the fore and aft. The fifth turret is mounted behind the bridge facing aft. This is a pretty common arrangement for many of the Type-III, and Type-II, ships though a few modified ships sport a slightly different arrangement. The Type-III ships typically sport two Series/2 machine gun turrets often flanking either side of the ship's bridge superstructure. Though this is often changed with the addition of more guns to better defend against attacking mobile suits. Even then on the more civilian-use Type-III ships two guns are the standard. The Type-III Armored Assault Ships differ from the smaller Type-II ships for they carry four torpedo tubes instead of two giving them a better long-range punch. Like all of the Armored Assault Ships torpedo tubes these launchers capable of firing the various Mark-50 series torpedo including typical anti-ship explosive torpedoes, chaff torpedoes, and other varied types of torpedeoes
 * Series/3 Dual Cannon Turrets
 * Series/2 Machine Gun Turrets
 * Mark-51 Torpedo Tubes

Equipment
The Series/1 Wire Anchors is a common stable of Armored Assault Ships everywhere allowing for a variety of purposes including securing the ship to floating pieces of debris, asteroids, and towing other ships. However, they can also be used in a combat situation securing an enemy ship for hostile boarding actions or to prevent it from running away. Even then some general modifications include the removal of these anchors from the ship for a variety of different reasons, including replacing them with fixed heavy anti-ship cannons or the addition of further torpedo tubes.
 * Series/1 Wire Anchors

TIR-0009 Hammerhead
The Hammerhead is the flagship of the Turbines Transport Group an affiliate of the Teiwaz Conglomerate. It is heavily modified from the original design, including the addition of a large frontal-mounted 'Hammerhead' which gives the ship its name. The ship's main engines are also relocated to the sides of this 'Hammerhead' section allowing it sport a slight difference in its handling. The cannons have been replaced with newer, larger Series/4 Guns from the less common Type-IV Armored Assault Ships. The Series/1 Wire Anchors have been removed and somewhat replaced with smaller versions on the aft and frontal arcs which are generally used for towing.

TIR-0099 Brassen Jasley
Formerly the flagship of the JPT Trust before they acquired a retired Goshawk Class Cruiser Carrier from Gjallarhorn to replace it. It sported an extended mobile suit hangar capable of carrying twice the amount of mobile suits and an extra pair of Series/2 machine gun turrets.

BKP-026 Amber Dawn
The flagship of the Dawn Horizon Pirate Group is the Type-III Armored Assault Ship Amber Dawn and it sports several modifications including a bow-mounted mobile suit hanger and catapult for the ship's mobile suit team. However, other than major modification there is nothing real different from other Type-III ships.

Liberty Class Armored Assault Ships
Two of the Liberty Class Armored Assault Ships are Type-III ships and are heavily modified to look similar to the Hammerhead. They also sport a larger mobile suit hangar and a new catapult system.