That would, I suppose, depend how liberally you want to interpret the words "spaceworthy" and "spacecraft". Fleets like Macross 7 or Macross 11 that operate a Milky Road system to connect the disparate emigrant ships in the fleet together can have some shockingly small "spa...

Who says it didn't? When the UN decided to reform as a united Earth government, anti-unification conflicts started across the globe. Let's just say that the anti-unification force is a minority, and the majority is into the idea. But that still just leave so many things to be done in order to creat...

Hard to say... mostly because nothing quite like that has been done in the official setting. Kawamori did design something vaguely along those lines for Character Model magazine's 2004 Spring issue. It was described as a "standoff weapon" that was essentially a small parasite aircraft mea...

To address the second point first, the main reason that VFs engage each other at such close ranges is because VFs have such powerful active stealth systems as well as other countermeasures like chaff canisters, flares, fiber optic towed decoys, etc. Because both warships and aircraft have active st...

Is there any data on how fast and how long can your typical VF missile travel? And do they have to carry any special components to counteract the active stealth system, or does the VF handle everything? I remember reading somewhere that the animation made it seem like the VF fought each other much c...

As I was thinking whether the VF-11 Booster count as a quadjet (probably not, because they added rocket boosters and not jet engines, right) or not, the same question applies to the Super Messiah, Super Lucifer, Durandal and Super Siegfried? Do they count as quadjets? Like, does the the drones carri...

Of course, when you account for the fact that the F-22's tanks hold enough fuel for a couple of hours of flight while the VF-1's hold enough fuel for about 29 days of flight in atmosphere... the cost picture is pretty damned rosy for the thermonuclear engine. Do we've any idea how energy-intensive ...

Variable Fighters use some kind of hydrogen fuel, but what about the boring old fusion power plants? What do they use? I vaguely remember someone talk about using sea water because they contain lithium and deuterium.

Also, can we make a guess how expensive VF fuel cost vs jet fuel?

Was it ever stated anywhere that the experiments that "created" George Glenn were done by a state-sponsored institution or a private party? I'm wondering about how coordinator tech spread so widely between C.E. 30 (when the ban on the creation of Coordinators was lifted) and C.E. 50 (the e...

It's MSV... it doesn't have to make sense or be properly explained. :P The explanation given is that it's basically an ineffectual shotgun-type weapon that fires explosive buckshot that doesn't have enough stopping power to actually hurt an enemy MS other than with a lucky hit on joints or cameras....

How exactly do the explosive bolts -- the swivel gauntlet thing-y on the Hyaku Shiki Kai Full Armor's forearms -- work? Are they actual explosives, or do they work more like pile drivers. Is there any explanation from manuals or other books? I am also wonder about the laser guns mounted to the Hyaku...

I can't remember for the life of me if I've already asked if the Neo Glaug, Variable Glaug and all the weird video game-only Zentrandi machine really exist? Or that whether the Queadluun-Rhea could triumph over all of them. Also, were there any new class of Meltrandi/Zentrandi-centric class of war s...

Say, remind me again what is the main power source in NUNS habitable world? Do they have giant thermonuclear reaction plants?

When we're on the topic of compatibility in OYW, just how different are the RX-78 to the Jaburo- and Luna II-made GM? Given how many defective RX-78 parts there were to make up to 20 Gundam Ground Type, I can imagine the EFF making a lot of adjustments between the RX-79[G] and the GM Ground Type. An...

Time is money. The cost of labor affects the price of the finished product, both in terms of the number of people required to manufacture one unit on the factory floor and how long it takes them to complete one unit. As you add more time or more people, the cost increases and that increases costs f...

Sure I do. I'll tell you the one obvious area word it's clearly superior... cost performance. Performance is not the only consideration when it comes to picking a main mobile suit, and it never has been. You can build the most amazing mobile suit in the world with the highest performance ever, but ...

Ignoring the very real world reason that two of these three was created decades after Zeta, do you think the Hizack is any way superior to the G-Line and Pale Rider DII to make the Titans choose it? If all they wanted is a better-than-average mobile suit made completely on Earth at a reasonable pace...

So there is this little NHK documentary about Okawara and Kawamori. It is pretty fun seeing Kawamori doing prototyping with Lego: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/onde ... o/2099003/

And I don't know that Kawamori worked on Lightan.

...former Macross toy bootlegger in Hong Kong. That is interesting? I remember being shown a terrible English sub episode of Macross from Hong Kong, but have no idea that they made bootleg Macross toys too. If my memory is right, then in the mid-1980s Bandai and some other Japanese model manufactur...

To clarify the above, the reason Harmony Gold is so keen on renewing those trademarks is because they'll be receiving royalties for the use of the title and various trademarked symbols and terms for products sold in the US. That is what I'm wondering. In the year of our Lord 2023, is there any new ...