Unit type:Â prototype close combat metal armor
Head height:Â 17.6 meters
Weight:Â empty 78.7 metric tons; max gross 121.6 metric tons; flight unit +19.7 tons
Output:Â 240,000 pounds (dry); 395,000 pounds (CMP); afterburner +95,000 pounds; 6 x main nozzle, 12 x attitude control nozzle
Mass ratio:Â 0.987 (dry); 2.015 (CMP)
Powerplant:Â 2 x FPW-4M miniaturized fusion reactor
Combat maximum power operation time:Â 37 seconds (max)
CMP cool-down period:Â 1.8 seconds (CMP for 5 seconds or less); 328 seconds (CMP for 37 seconds)
Maximum velocity:Â Mach 0.98 (sea level); Mach 1.64 (32,000 feet)
Cruising range:Â 2,460 nautical miles (4,556 km)
Hardpoints:Â 2 (maximum load 18 metric tons)
Armor:Â triple hardness type ceralite coating; maximum thickness 155mm
Equipment and design features:Â Cray Type 9000 computer with AI navigator “Clara”; Type TAS1 image sensors, range unknown; Type WG3S gravitational sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments:Â multi-dispenser (can fire standard bullets, HE ammo, plasma ammo; maximum 5 rounds); 2 x close combat laser sword, mounted on hips, hand-carried in use; 2 x dual 25mm machine gun, fire-linked, mounted in forearms (1,500 rounds per minute, 800 rounds); throwing bomb; 2 x 6-tube dual missile pod, mounted on flight unit
Optional hand armaments:Â type LPS32 55.7mm hand railcannon (2,200 rounds per minute, 1,620 rounds, uses standard and HE ammunition); 2 x close combat assault knife; super hybrid shield; 2 x anti-metal armor grenade; photon bazooka
Pilot:Â Kaine Wakaba
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara
Dragonar Info
Director:
Takeyuki Kanda
Writer(s):
Fuyunori Gobu
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
Kenichi Matsuzaki
Ryosuke Takahashi
Yasushi Hirano
Hidemi Kamata
Mechanical Designer:
Kunio Okawara
Character Designer(s):
Kenichi Ohnuki
Musical Composer(s):
Kentaro Haneda
Toshiyuki Watanabe
Format:
48 episodes
Airdates:
Japan 02.07.1987 – 01.30.1988
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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