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  1. Aries Turner
    One thing I cringed about the VF-25 Ka-Bar is that even Frontier showed us those are worthless. VF-11 bayonet? totally makes sense. But VF-171 onward have pinpoint barriers, as shown when a VF-171 powerpunched a Vajra. Or Macross Quarter using one as cutting tip on not-exactly-too-sharp prow of its Buster Cannon Gunship. And now the VF-31/A/B/C/E/F/J/S carry double the dead-weight. Pointless (all pun intended).
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    Exactly. Why? Choose any cheese plot device. Why? Spent munition is actually smaller in volume than unspent one. In fact, GPU-5/A (using a GAU-8 derived four barrel GAU-13) spent cases went back to the feed system, rolled around the barrels in the forward portion of the pod. I don't know the internals of a GU-11, but I suppose it had a similar mechanism. Then again, it those pods are explicitly stated as caseless, I have nothing more to add. But if those aren't, those aren't. I however agree that even if used anywhere other than Hikaru's rifle, the caseless time window is gone.
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    Good point. And verniers are ridiculously powerful since Hikaru VF-1D VTOL stunt stealing Brera of the merit. Just for the record: I am not saying Reina used this. I say she may. Still, even without anti-grav, whatever those drones use to generate the shields, removing airframe, engine, comms, reaction mass for the verniers, everything essential to fly would make *two* of these things without flying gear should weight as much combined as a regular body armor. Lighter materials accounted for the two kind of devices. Battery life shouldn't be as much a concern as it is a supposed last line of defense and are not taxed by flight or coordinated flight mechanisms. Sure. As pinpoint barriers itselves at that size. Note: I agree with you here, really. I am just saying stretching too much the suspension of disbelief is something Macross is used to. ...with a rocket belt attached. The show is cheesy enough, so I agree: why not. Using a suit is simpler, just like avoiding caseless ammunition, so convoluted that cases almost feel a solution to that. I remembered something about caseless ammo, though: just because you don't see cartridges falling doesn't mean the thing is caseless. GAU-8 takes the spent casings back into the ammunition drum, and it is the big daddy of GPUs and GUs. In the end, VF-31A is only slightly lighter and slightly more powerful than a VF-25, at 8,250Kg empty and 2x1,645KN regular FF-3001A. Also of note: the VF-31C is assisted by an Ariel III A.I., and something about an adapted A.I. is also said about the Kairos (it is no longer VF-25S privilege), both Kairos and Siegfried have *two* Ka-Bar knives and Kairos railguns have slightly bigger bore (27mm vs 25mm, like a veiled Tornado/EF/Gripen BK27 vs F-35 GAU-22 reference).
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    When Mikumo used them to float, forming a complex pattern, those appeared smaller, but lets use that bigger figure: ScanEagles are 3m wide and weight ~20Kg. By comparison, Interceptor Body Armor weights ~15Kg. And those drones use anti-grav. Likely not, as the drones need such a power source as well, have a reasonable battery and an anti-grav device built-in. I agree with your first sentence. But given that air can't pass through a barrier, you need it to just activate fast enough and have an air compressed cartridge somewhere to fill the void before you suffering decompression. I guess that simple diamond/tetrahedron shape wouldn't be safe to engage within a cockpit, either. Then again, maybe Reina was wearing such a mask as only protection. Or the mask and a personal field, as those aren't mutually exclusive. Then it is a given its nature wouldn't be as much always on as instant on.
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    I remember seeing Macross II. The only cool thing there was the Marduk mothership, much better than either Bodolza fortress version. The valkyries looked like barely improved copies with some abhorrent design lines (pointed 'feet' and the like). The Macross Cannon was some kitbash of SDF-1 and four Nupetiet Vergnitz in different stages of construction. The Destroid Monster looked somewhat cool, I think. The Tomahawk II was so cool, the Cheyenne and Cheyenne II were almost made after it. The story wasn't so bad, the characters were not bad either. Just don't remember anything about them. So no, Delta is no Macross II. Still, I feel pissed at it, but is my fault, really. After SDFM, DYRL, 2012 and Plus, Macross 7 right from the titles and in the first few minutes, stablished 'OK, this is Macross, but for kids. This is not your regular Macross'. And worked. It was annoying at times, hilarious and silly at others, but as a kid series, it has no real fault. What happened with Delta is that it started much like a Frontier follow-on and then suddenly remembered it was too complicated for kids to understand. So later parts of the series is for kids. Bad people is bad because is bad, reasons notwithstanding. Good people suffer bad consequences doing things by trial and error, Naruto style. Thinking strategically or even planning in advance was taken out of the show. So the whole bitching is about 'hey, you made us thought it was Frontier follow-on, but really is a Macross 7 follow-on'. Now I understand why Hayate feels so annoying and unnervingly unaware of his surroundings except in battle. And why Mirage is like a Flower Girl, redeemed and with lines spoken. And why Arad is like Veffidas being forced to speak for reasons of leadership. Now that I think about it, Hayate dancing scenes were cut as if series manager was talked into making the series more mature, to target mature audiences. And *THEN* convinced mid-series to steer in the opposite direction.
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    If point defense shields have miniaturized enough for those to be placed inside flying drones, a wearable version is to be expected also. Thus, an alternative explanation appears for Reina: she was already in her dance costume, which shows daring overconfidence in energy force fields alone taking all the protective functions of a spacesuit. I would be scared to death in space in one of those. [Edit]: 'Why then would Reina project a fake spacesuit in the cockpit?' Psychological reasons: even a mercenary like Chuck would feel scared to death being responsible of the life of a civilian with no other protection against vacuum than technomagic.
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    First, searchlights are very useful, as shown by the ANG, in interceptions. This is not the case: searchlights are braindead here. Second, IRST is not foolproof. Dense foliage or adverse atmospherical conditions would make it useless. There is also jawdropping IR-countermeasures today IRL, and Frontier EX-Gears and our least favorite technobabes transparent jumpsuits sure have a better version of those. Sure, it is problematic with *current* technology to hide something warm over cold ice in *good* atmospheric conditions. But there they have *future* technology and *bad* weather. Third, Knights are way too cooltards to refrain using the (Wind)Force. Searchlights were there just for ambiance while they listened their favorite disco hits, mimicking Hayate moves on the dance floor while the camera was focusing elsewhere. Maybe, like Jedis, most of the avionics easily surpassed with their natural abilities is gone, IRST included.
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    Maybe. Maybe not quite: although the VF-171 can use the VF-17 rifle, those are mostly equipped with GU-14. That and VF-22 being equipped with not in field rechargeable clipless rifles hints the three main issues with caseless munitions are still there, and a MC-17 repeat of SDFM personal rifle situation. [bTW]: I remember something about the VF-31 not using Battroid mode in atmosphere because it is stated somewhere as not capable to do so (unless on ground). VF-0 to -22 had some kind of engine backpack (maybe not the VF-4 and -17, both mainly space fighters). When the VF-25 was introduced, those were deleted. That may be a reason as to why VF-25 are allways shown deployed in space with at least Super Packs, but that works opposite against the notion of those being needed in atmosphere for battroid mode. I feel a bit puzzled here, as much about the reasons for deletion, the role those auxiliary engines played in battroid mode and If we ever saw a VF-25 *flying* (not falling) as Battroid, without the packs.
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    The carrying handle is somewhat different. I didn't even actually check if what we are shown are actually G36 CGI models, I just didn't care: can be a reuse of such, but we 'know' those only resemble that. About caseless munition, there may even an in-universe explanation. Even military leaders could think overtechnology could at last solve caseless munition issues, but the very nature of that munition could be insurmountable even with that. The main issues are: a) Cookoff. Caseless munition don't have a metallic heat sink. OTM could or could not solve that using explosives with a higher ignition temperature. b) Lack of sealing. The case of a bullet effectively seals the rear of the barrel while firing, both improving ballistics and protecting the rifle mechanism from heated gases. Overtechnology materials with better resistance and heat insulation could solve the issue on the rifle side, but ballistics would suffer as the rifle is now somewhat like a recoil-less rifle. c) Caseless munition very nature of lacking a metallic, flexible, resistant to grazing by internal mechanism or friction when moving within the ammo clip, made those somewhat fragile, because propellants has to be resistant to humidity, ignite completely without noticeable residues that would need extraction like a conventional cartridge and at the same time be tolerant to friction and mechanical handling. Maybe overtechnology made caseless munition appear viable at last, but field experience proved the munition as still unreliable and troops opting for enemy rifles when available during Anti-UN wars. That kind of munitions being useless against Zentraedi size targets could have played a role, also. I don't remember about Varauta or Zolan rifle lethality, but if the later wasn't great and the former isn't either, or is but is difficult to replicate, that could explain not using beam rifles.
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    I know I do. I know that has not happened, nor is written in stone it is going to happen. But so many flags... The guy may be a liar, but that would matter if there were any semblance of character coherence. They just switch roles on a whim. I even had the impression that the targeted public is now one twenty years younger or more. Probably from the very start, just we oldies clinged to the notion it was targeting us.
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    But why, oh, why would you restore the inside when the outside is memento enough of the shame? Why going the extra mile to restore the engines? That would be a WTF that not even a batallion wide tactical facepalm could sufficiently describe.
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    They wouldn't dare... ...no way... ...museum things are supposed to be devoid of engines or avionics! Oh, crap, the thing is going to fly at the first try.
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    I tried (and failed, it seems) to convey the same idea. Or Max macronized to appease anti-Zentraedi sentiments. I am already liking that colleague of yours. I had a fan fiction interview in mind with the actor portraying Michelle Blanc about some points in the series and later the movies that puzzled him as an actor, like making Ozma Lee survive the attack in which he lost his life "for unexplained personal request from real Ranka Lee" or how the friendly fire incident in which Blanc lost his life at Alto's negligence under combat stress just before him winning the war was completely rewritten both to cover a senseless death and to avoid blame on a war hero. Or how Klan was certainly impaired genetically, but of lack of beauty, as she loved Blanc but was not loved in return. For the movie he was surprised not only to reprise the role, but for him to survive the events, as the military funding part of the movie objected his death was a sad moment anyway.
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    True. It is not explicitly stated. About DYRL, I think even Mylene and Basara commented in said episode that it was a 2030 dramatization.
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    That is why it is to be expected the swords and glasses to be of windermerean origin. But not the firearms nor the APC. The SV-262 we already know those aren't. Edit: Sorry, I thought you were meaning something else. Windermereans as feudal agricultural society using foreigner weapons (and ancient technology) to unleash a galaxy wide jihad is maybe a little too obvious a reference.
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    The G-36 however is a real bone. As Windermere is stated as being isolated, scarce in resources and arming themselves smuggling cargo, their rifles being an human design is not as much a surprise. Could be even raided NUNS detachment ordinance. Going back from caseless munitions in SDFM to simpler ones is not a problem either. What should be puzzling is the military, other than Hugo Voss made uniforms for the SS, is not prone to fashion, and certainly not retro fashion.
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    Using existing CGI models is only going to make even harder in the future to find ways to retcon their presence in some way. With these, you still can argue those models never entered production in the Macross timeline, but were found in some car design studio, on paper. But that presents us with another problem here: although those drafts could really have been done before Earth destruction, it is clear right from SDFM that OTM had affected car design in unexpected ways, so it stretches credibility that even those designs would have ever been made: the unexpectedly found culture cache would most certainly depict very different car designs. [Edit]: Found another escape door, as Delta has stated that SDFM is a drama series about actual events. The cars depicted there could have been anachronism right from the era the series was shoot. So OTM may have not influenced car design at all or even widely known to civilian contractors in any way. Anti Unification War, however, could do, but not to the same degree.
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    I agree. Lets the thing rest. Sorry for the emotional answer. I refuse to even go back to the original post to try to remember what was being discussed in the first place. About the retro issue, SDFM, DYRL, Plus and 7 introduced several futuristic appliances. Frontier and Delta still do, but Frontier sported a retro style right from Ozma OTM Lancia Delta Integrale and the SH-60 for the sequence of Legend of Zero episode. I could even count the Beatrice, but military 8x8 combat pillboxes have few variety in shapes. 6x6 have more leverage. As Ozma's 'Lancia' really isn't and have numerous technological marvels inside, Mirage's Walther PP could be a replica, but more likely just looks like one. You couldn't however completely discard it being a familiar memento, found on Earth by Max, between the ruins.
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    True. False. Someone cited the same engine being interchangeable between 767s ant 747, and even expressly made to be able to do so. I cited a case about mating an engine not made for the given plane, not even with compatible interfaces (J-15). Yet you, and you alone, for reasons unknown, still fight the idea. First mumbling about possible physical incompatibilities. When physical differences were discarded, you moved along to the engine software that looks exactly like a FADEC. Then to avionics software, and later you are now talking about... don't know: Write only PROM modules? Back from the EEPROM? Seriously? It is not me who is not accepting the VF-31 is inferior: I even conceded the point. It is you not accepting the YF-30 is no longer an exclusive model. You'll have your reasons. Even cited some nonsense about alphanumeric codes running out of letters: when/if the IRL F-38 flies, no one would mistake it for the WW2 era Lightning. Just reset the sequence.
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    Lets be clear. Are you finally agreeing that there is no issue for mating YF-30 engines to VF-31 airframes, or even unyoking VF-31 engines, issues other than self-preservation, so happily ignored in every series finale for sheer Alto-hime intense looks, dramatic duels with Shin, Fokker and their respective nemesis or Guld entering history?? Because writers putting a de-rated FF-3001/FC2 instead of an FF-3265AC-4 (wink, wink) or whatever is a BIG flag of what is going to happen at series finale. Or what they misguide us into believing. I don't believe that is the case. Caseless munitions have issues that one would picture OTM to overcome but can still fail yet again. Hikaru's rifle may well have been retired from service prematurely. Also, consider a Colt 1911. More than 100 years later, most semiautomatics are basically similar (similar <> same), but built with polymers. Those may look the same, but using OTM materials may not be readily apparent. I expect incredible changes in munitions, however. Then again, consider pure OTM ExGear rifles. And don't forget the retro fashion: Lancia Delta Integrale replicas, OTM made SH-60 replicas for movies, so why not firearm classics too?
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    Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been searching this movie for almost 30 years, knowing only its general plot right from memory lane and nothing else.
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    This kinda feels like a moving target. The point is you don't hammer the engine in because of poor fitting, you need to rewrite software. It is doable. Sure, rewriting Ada code (or C as in F-35 or whatever is used on VFs) is never ease if the engine manufacturer feels uncooperative, but is still doable. Chinese managed to mate what is basically a GE-101 in their unlicensed Flanker copy J-15 (the naval variant of the J-11).[Edit]: Wrong engine manufacturer and model number corrected and better redacted. In fact I was wrong again, the story was even more amazing than simply mating copy with copy.
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