blackaeronaut Wrote:Oooh! This is useful!It is, but if I remember the forum discussions rightly that doesn't take into account the boosters in the VF-4's shoulder pods or along the back of the wing/shoulder blades, only the actual turbines in the legs. Good luck finding ANY info about the trailing edge boosters, but I think I've seen thrust ratings for the shoulder pods somewhere, sometime. The most telling part of that, is that Hikaru flew his VF-4G straight into space beside the Megaroad as it launched. I'm not sure about the VF-11B being capable of that, at least not without the strap on SRBs Dyson used with it while acting as chase plane for the YF-21, though the VF-17 probably could, and maybe the VF-14 since we see FZ-109s doing it. Fuel consumption probably goes up SHARPLY with those extra engines though.
http://macross2.net/m3/thrusttoweight/t ... ochart.jpg
At a guess, and from the VF-4's concept as "a Valkyrie that doesn't need FAST packs to get high performance" you could probably steal the thrust ratings form the VF-1 FAST pods for the shoulders and the leg vernier cluster plus VF-1 backpack cluster for the TE/shoulders, and see where that gets you...
FYI, also, and I know Macekisms don't bother you the way they bother me, but "Valkyrie" is the canon Macross slang for "generic variable fighter" due to the VF-1 being so famous from SW1, as used in songs and character dialogue. "Veritech..." is not. Likewise with "overtechnology" versus "robotechnology." On that latter front, and in conjunction with the maintenance time discussion, it occured to me that most likely they use whatever effect the "SW/AG Energy Conversion Armor" runs on to protect moving parts from each other as well, so the physical structure of the machine is really just a medium for the structural integrity fields that are actually doing all the work, and if I understand the doubletalk right actually draw energy out of kinetic force acting against them to increase their own strength, though only to a degree and the delay in response time still lets some of the damage through - so 55mm cannon slugs leave pockmarks on the otherwise orinary aluminum skin rather than shredding it like tinfoil, and you need a swarm of missiles to have any significant effect rather than one hit being a kill.
One more edit, while useful resources are under discussion - CollectionDX has a review of the Yamato toy with ALL THE PICTURES. F, G, B, transformation, thrust vectoring, ALL OF THEM.
http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/ ... htning_iii
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