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VF-5000G Battroid with Speaker Units


VF-5000G Fighter with Speaker Units


Shock Gun Pod (Zolan Force Colors)
 Shinsei Industry VF-5000G Star Mirage Speaker Variant

Technical Data

Equipment Type: UNS general-purpose lightweight air superiority variable fighter
Government: U.N. Spacy, Zola Military (Galactic Whale patrol unit)
Manufacturer: Shinsei Industry
Introduction: 2018
Operational Deployment: 2020
Accommodation: pilot only.
Dimensions:
  • Fighter Mode: length 14.03 meters
    Mass: empty 8.3 metric tons
    Structure: space metal frame, energy converting armor
    Power Plant: two Shinsei/P&W/Roice FF-2015RB thermonuclear reaction turbine engines.
    Propulsion: 12,500 kg [x g] x 2 (122.63 kN x 2); 2 x vertical two-dimensional vectored exhaust nozzles; many x P&W HMM-3A high-thrust vernier thrusters.
    Performance:
  • Fighter Mode: at 10,000 m Mach 2.85; at 30,000+ m Mach 4.73+
    g limit: unknown
    Design Features: 3-mode variable transformation; blended wing body; holographic HUD on canopy; variable geometry sweep (VG) wing; vertical Take-off and landing (VTOL); single-axis thrust vectoring; retractable canopy cover (for Battroid mode); option of space/atmospheric booster pack and weaponry system; option of Super FAST Pack space/atmospheric booster and weaponry system.
    - Armament -
    Guns:
  • 1 x fixed rear anti-aircraft pulse laser cannon (mounted center dorsal section in Fighter/GERWALK mode, becomes head turret in Battroid mode)
  • 1 x standard external shock gun pod (mounted ventral fuselage in Fighter mode, in arm manipulator for GERWALK/Battroid modes).
    Bombs & Missiles:
  • 4 x internal micro-missile launchers (two launchers mounted in the center ventral fuselage/each lower arm in Fighter/Battroid modes; two launchers mounted on engines/lower legs in Fighter/Battroid modes)
    Additional Equipment:
  • 2 x speaker units (mounted forward of dorsal nacelles in fighter mode; shoulders in GERWALK/Battroid modes)
    Optional Armament:
  • space/atmospheric booster pack and weaponry system with 2 x micro-missile launchers mounted on engine/lowers legs and 2 x missile launchers with shock ordnance in dorsal booster

    • Description and History

    A Zolan scientist named Lawrence modified several VF-5000 variable fighters for the purpose of communicating with space whales. Speaker units were installed that both aided in receipt and transmission of music played by Nekki Basara. Laiza of the Zolan Galactica Whale patrol unit piloted one of these modified Star Mirage variable fighters in 2047.

    NOTE: The VF-5000's designation was inspired by the Dassault Mirage 2000. Studio HalfEye has called its model the "Star Mirage," although Shoji Kawamori has indicated that such a designation is only a nickname. The name "Star Mirage" has since been printed in the book Shoji Kawamori's Macross Design Works (2001).

    Production Notes

    Debut: (as Super Booster Speaker Variant) Macross Dynamite 7, Episode 3
    Pilot(s): no notables.
    Other appearances: none.
    Original mechanical designer: Shoji Kawamori

    Line Art

  • battroid mode (with speaker units) rear view
    • Information Courtesy of the Macross Compendium: www.macross.anime.net/wiki/Main_Page
    Images From - Macross Perfect Memory and other macross books.
    C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist.