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Stonewell/Bellcom VF-3000 Crusader
Equipment Type: variable fighter
Government: for license to independent national factions
Manufacturer: Stonewell/Bellcom.
Operational Deployment: sometime between 2012 and 2018
Accommodation: pilot plus passenger.
Dimensions:
Fighter Mode: length 15.75 meters (1.1066 multiplier x VF-1A Valkyrie 14.23m length)
Mass: unknown.
Structure: space metal frame, energy converting armor
Power Plant: two thermonuclear reaction engines.
Propulsion: unknown; many x vernier thrusters.
Performance: unknown.
Design Features: 3-mode variable transformation; vertical Take-off and landing (VTOL); variable main wing; two-seater cockpit.
- Armament -
Guns:
1 x heavy gatling gun pod
1 x medium-bore laser cannon on rotating mount (mounted center ventral section - right side - in Fighter/GERWALK modes, becomes head turret in Battroid mode)
2 x small-bore laser cannons on rotating mount (mounted center ventral section - left side - in Fighter/GERWALK modes, becomes head turret in Battroid mode).
Bombs & Missiles:
unknown.
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The VF-3000 is a variable fighter built by Stonewell/Bellcom and designed as a remodeled VF-1 Valkyrie. The Crusader was intended to be licensed to various independent national factions within the United Nation Government sphere of influence and was to incorporate proprietary technologies from each buyer. The VF-3000 is a much larger variable fighter than the original VF-1 Valkyrie and the Crusader features a stretched, elongated body that unfortunately tends to make the Battroid/GERWALK joints slip slightly. Because of this design flaw, few Crusader units were ever produced. Stonewell/Bellcom (formed via the merger of those separately named companies) and Shinnakasu Heavy Industries later developed the VF-5000 Star Mirage based upon the VF-3000 design. When the aerospace divisions of Stonewell/Bellcom and Shinnakasu merged to become Shinsei Industry, the VF-5000 Star Mirage became their first mass-produced variable fighter.
NOTE: The VF-3000 Crusader was originally a non-Macross mechanical design developed by Shoji Kawamori for the Advanced Valkyrie model project for Bandai. When Bandai decided against producing this model series, Shoji Kawamori revised the designs for inclusion in the Macross universe.
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Debut: Macross M3 (Video Game, 2001)
Pilot(s): Max Jenius, Milia Jenius
Other appearances: none.
Original mechanical designer: Shoji Kawamori |
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.
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