Model number:Â FXA-08R-X1
Code name:Â Proto Mega Rider
Unit type:Â prototype mobile suit support weapon/sub-flight system
Manufacturer:Â Anaheim Electronics
Operator: AEUG (Anti-Earth Union Group)
Rollout:Â unknown
First deployment:Â unknown
Accommodation:Â pilot and copilot plus additional passengers, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions:Â overall height 15.0 meters (22.5 meters including radome); overall length 44.0 meters
Weight:Â unknown
Armor materials:Â Gundarium alloy
Powerplant:Â Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, power output rating unknown
Propulsion:Â rocket thrusters: total 159,500 kg
Performance:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range 20,000 meters; radome, mounted on arm connected to main body
Fixed armaments:Â mega bazooka launcher, mounted in nose; 2 x Gatling gun, mounted on rear of main body; 2 x 11-tube missile pod, mounted on rear of main body
The FXA-08R-X1 Proto Mega Rider was a unit developed as a support weapon for a three mobile suit team. With living space for pilots and storage space for food, supplies and ammo, the Proto Mega Rider functioned as a sort of mobile base. The Mega Rider’s name was derived from it being based on the FHA-03M1 Mega Bazooka Launcher and a mobile suit’s ability to ride it like a motorcycle. One mobile suit docked on the Proto Mega Rider, with the other two carried in tow. The Proto Mega Rider was equipped with a sensor radome for scouting and was additionally armed with missile pods and Gatling guns. The Proto Mega Rider was involved in an accident at a derelict colony used as a test site. As a result, the Proto Mega Rider’s design was refined, and the unit was produced as the FXA-08R Mega Rider, used by the AEUG during the First Neo Zeon War in UC 0088.
Pilot: Kelly East
First appearance: Anaheim Laboratory Log
N/A
Anaheim Laboratory Log Info
Writer(s):
Makoto Ishii
Yasutoshi Takamura
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kyoshi Takigawa
Masanobu Oku
Masato Natsumoto
Format:
1 volume
Novel Release:
Japan 11.xx.2016 – 06.xx.2017
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Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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