Hm, maybe... Pilots should love how survivable this thing is - you can blow all the arms and legs and head off, and still fly, fight, and even land normally in F, since the main gear are located in the secondary nacelles. If that fails, you can eject the nose pod (including out of the chest of B mode) and fly home in that, or if all else fails you still have the EXGear-style slave-controls powered armor if you eject to old fashioned way. That's three different ways to survive major damage to your airframe, after stealth, dodging and armor already failed.
As for where you buy one... well, first you travel to the Macross cluster of universes, then find the parallel where Macross Five colonists had to face animal-experiment style prototypes of the Evil series even after the Protodeviln were gone, so they kept some of those spiritia-combat-outfitted Varauta mecha and formed Varauta Hostile Animal Control with Motodyne as the aircraft company to support it, then you wait until late 2059 or 2060, and then you can liscence it to build with your fleet or colony's Three Stars, though if you want the integrated 2nd or 3rd generation fold drive you have to license them seperately from General Galaxy or L.A.I. ...
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
As for where you buy one... well, first you travel to the Macross cluster of universes, then find the parallel where Macross Five colonists had to face animal-experiment style prototypes of the Evil series even after the Protodeviln were gone, so they kept some of those spiritia-combat-outfitted Varauta mecha and formed Varauta Hostile Animal Control with Motodyne as the aircraft company to support it, then you wait until late 2059 or 2060, and then you can liscence it to build with your fleet or colony's Three Stars, though if you want the integrated 2nd or 3rd generation fold drive you have to license them seperately from General Galaxy or L.A.I. ...
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows