Model number:Â N/A
Code name:Â Gunship Heli
Unit type:Â helicopter gunship
Manufacturer:Â Principality of Zeon
Operator:Â Principality of Zeon
First deployment:Â UC 0079
Accommodation:Â 2 pilots and passenger in standard canopy-style cockpit
Dimensions:Â unknown
Weight:Â unknown
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â unknown
Propulsion:Â coaxial rotor, total output unknown
Performance:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments:Â vulcan gun, mounted below cockpit; 2 x 4-tube wire-guided missile launcher, mounted under wings
The Gunship Heli was an attack helicopter used by the Principality of Zeon on Earth during the One Year War. The Gunship Heli used a coaxial rotor and lacked a tail rotor. The Gunship Heli was armed with a vulcan gun and launchers carrying eight wire-guided missiles. In UC 0079, a Gunship Heli operating out of Southeast Asia was destroyed in battle by the 08th M.S. Team of the Earth Federation Forces’ Kojima Battalion.
Pilot(s):Â Norris Packard, Masado
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team
Original mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane
N/A
Gundam: The 08th M.S. Team Info
Director(s):
Takeyuki Kanda
Umanosuke Iida
Writer(s):
Akira Okeya
Hiroaki Kitajima
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kunio Okawara
Hajime Katoki
Kimitoshi Yamane
Character Designer(s):
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Tomoaki Kado
Musical Composer:
Kouhei Tanaka
Format:
12 episodes; 1 compilation movie
Video Release:
Japan 01.25.1996 – 07.25.1999
U.S. 07.03.2001 – 01.22.2002
Theatrical Release:
Japan 08.01.1998
MAHQ is now officially on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mahqdotnet.bsky.social.
Our future on this cursed app is unclear, but expect more posts over there.
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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