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VF-2JA Battroid equipped with Missile Packs


VF-2JA GERWALK equipped with Missile Packs


VF-2JA Fighter equipped with Missile Packs


Heavy Rifle/Gun Pod


Missile Packs

 VF-2JA Icarus Missile Pack

Technical Data

Equipment Type: main variable fighter
Government: U.N. Spacy
Introduction: 2086
Operational Deployment: 2086
Accommodation: pilot only
Dimensions:
  • Battroid Mode: height 15.9 meters
  • Fighter Mode (with Missile Pack): wingspan 7.9 meters (fully extended 12.2 meters); height 5.2 meters; length 15.8 meters
    Mass: weight in metric tons unknown.
    Power Plant: two Tachikahoff thermonuclear turbine reaction engines.
    Propulsion: 0 kg [x g] x 2 (0.00 kN x 2); 1 x rear dorsal thruster pod (mount rear in Battroid mode); 22 x apogee motors
    Thrust-to-weight ratio: (empty) 0.00
    Design Features: 3-mode variable transformation; variable geometry sweep (VG) wing; forward swept wing (GERWALK mode); vertical Take-off and landing (VTOL); control-configured vehicle (ccv), two-dimensional thrust vectoring; retractable one-piece canopy cover (for Battroid mode); special hard point stations for external missile packs.
    - Armament -
    Guns:
  • 1 x heavy rifle/heavy gun pod (mounted central ventral fuselage in Figher mode, held in manipulator in GERWALK/Battroid mode)
  • 2 x semi-fixed anti-aircraft laser cannons (mounted center ventral section in Fighter/GERWALK mode, becomes head turret in Battroid mode)
  • 2 x beam cannons (mounted right and left upon forward nose section)
    Bombs & Missiles:
  • 2 x missile packs loaded with 2 x large missiles per pack (4 x large missiles total)
    Optional Armament:
  • none.

    • Description and History

    The VF-2JA Icarus has the option of mounting several launchers for carrying large size missiles. These missile packs can be mounted upon the VF-2JA Icarus in space or in an atmosphere.

    Production Notes

    Debut: Macross II, Episode 2 (with Missile Packs)
    Pilot(s): Nexx
    Other appearances: none.
    Original mechanical designer: Atsushi Okuda, Junichi Akutsu, Kazumi Fujita, Koichi Ohata

    Line Art

  • VF-2JA Icarus Missile Pack line art
    • Translated information from Entertainment Bible #51, B-Club #79, Mecha Press #7 and Macross Chronicle
    Images From - Macross Perfect Memory and other macross books.
    C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist.