I apologise graham. I recalled wrong. Its been awhile.
Yea i Kinda remmebered the reaction mission coming out of the leg bays (flaps) in fighter mode of the VF-22.
So the next cool thing would be portable fold boosters which don't die after one usage, and able to fold in big guns when needed.
I can so see it that the next valk would be something out of Zone Of The Enders...where they can fold everywhere on the map and kill things fast and disappear to the other side almost immediately...kinda makes you think of dragonball z fights.
OT: Btw, can the VF-17 fire the gunpod in fighter mode? I think i saw an ep where Gamlin fired a machine gun fron under his right wing, where his gunpod might've been.