The ASC-35 was an early trans-orbital dropship used by the United Earth Expeditionary Force (UEEF). It was capable of carrying up to 46 troops and their equipment, or two light tactical vehicles. Later in its service career, the ASC-35 was reconfigured to carry twenty Cyclone riders and their equipment. Though it was later eclipsed by the much larger Horizont Dropship, this type remained in service well past the liberation of Earth with the UEEF Marine Corps. The Marines continued to use it as their primary light trans-orbital troop carrier.
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The Variable-technology Attack Gunship (VAG) was a proposed VF/A-6 Alpha Fighter and VA-5 Condor replacement designed by Maxwell Dynamics in the early thirties. Among its features was the integration of a VH-series Veritech hover cycle into the cockpit. With this system, the pilot wore his Cyclone WHILE piloting the VAG. While this certainly improved pilot survivability, every single test pilot who flew the fighter absolutely hated it. In the end, it was decided by the UEEF that the VAG did not offer a significant enough improvement over the VF/A-6 Alpha. Still, the program was not a total lose, as many of the systems introduced on the VAG were later incorporated into the later blocks of Alpha fighters.
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MiG-31: Served with the Soviet Air Force during the Global Civil War, the Anti-Unification League during the First Global Civil War, and with most air forces within the Eastern Block of Soviet Independent States in various variants until the Invid invasion.
III. Type:
One man air-superiority fighter.
IV. Propulsion:
Two conventional turbojet engines with thrust deflection plates on main engines.
X-band pulse-Doppler radar, providing long-range detection and tracking of targets at all altitudes.
Optical tracking:
Infra-red imaging sensor and low-light level camera system in retractable optic ball-turret in front of the cockpit canopy.
Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):
Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
Active radar jammer
Chaff dispenser
Flares
Active missile jammers.
VII. Armament:
Cannons:
1 x Gsh-35-4 35-mm Gatling cannon (mounted forward on the ventral fuselage).
or 1 x Gsh-30-4A1 30-mm Gatling cannon (mounted in the same location).
Hardpoints:
4 x hardpoints for assorted ordnance, 2 under each wing.
VIII. Armor:
The skin of the Karyovin is composed of an titanium-steel alloy on vital spots. Other sections of the skin are composed of advanced carbon-plastics. The skin on the Karyobin provides excellent protection in the vital spots against small grenade and shell fragments, good protection against small arms fire, and poor resistance to heavier infantry weapons, such as the 12.7mm machinegun round, as well as from fragments and near misses from higher caliber weapons.
Karyovins built after the arrival of the SDF-1 were constructed of advanced Space Metal alloy. This armor stops all small arms fire, provides fair protection against heavier infantry weapons, such as a 12.7mm machinegun round, and poor resistance to light mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Zentraedi 22.3mm HE autocannon round.
These planes provide full protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical hazards, using an overpressure cockpit environment activated by radiation and hazardous chemical sensors, or manually when biological warfare conditions are anticipated. The internal consumables supplies can provide atmosphere for approximately eight hours.
IX. Development:
During the GCW, the Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau designed its own equivalent to both the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt and the McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The new aircraft would have to be as effective at taking out ground targets as the A-10, but also as adept at air-to-air combat as the dual-role F/A-18. The design bureau fulfilled these hefty demands brilliantly with the MiG-31. The plane incorporated completely new aerodynamical designs, including a delta wing tipped with the vertical stabilizers, which were in effect very large winglets, and two small canard wings in front. The cockpit section was an ellipsoid, and the main hull extended above and below the wings. Expert detail design and applied aerodynamics, coupled to thrust reversers and revised approach procedures gave the plane the STOL capability of the far older SAAB Draken and Viggen fighters. The MiG-31 was well armored, and had built-in infra-red engine suppressors to counter aircraft-and shoulder-launched infra-red missiles. The armament was impressive, with a 35mm four-barreled Gatling cannon under the hull, in front of the inlet. This cannon was a knock-off of the GAU-8/A as installed in the nose of the A-10, and fired similar powerful ammunition. The one drawback was that exhaust fumes from the cannon’s firing could interfere with the engines, but this was offset by a number of auxiliary inlets and
close-off doors in the normal airflow canals. Four hardpoints were also available to mount almost any external store available in the world. The resulting craft was even faster at low
altitudes than the F-203, but was still not as good a dog-fighter due to the lower thrust of its engines and its higher weight, causing a lower acceleration and more energy loss during sustained turns. However, as a dual-role attack/fighter aircraft the plane was without equal, surpassing both the A-10 as a ground attack plane and the F/A-18 as a dual-role plane. The USSR was very pleased with the design, since it was an overnight success, and sold a large number to the East-bloc and Chinese forces where it acquired the name of Karyovin.
After Earth’s unification, the UN Spacy adopted a variant of this plane, renamed the A-16A Executioner, as its main ground-attack aircraft.
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Hughes AWG-20 X-band pulse-Doppler radar, providing long-range detection and tracking of targets at all altitudes, as well as extensive surface search, attack, navigation, and mapping modes.
Zeiss FOI-8 infra-red imaging sensor and low-light level camera system in retractable optic ball-turret in front of the cockpit canopy.
Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):
Elettronica Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
OlDelft Infra-red Warning Receiver (IRWR)
Westinghouse ALQ-200 active radar jammer
Chaff dispenser
Flares
Active missile jammers.
VII. Armament:
Cannons:
(A variant) 1 x Gsh-30-4A1 four-barreled 30mm cannon, firing API (Armor Piercing Incendiary) ammunition at 990 m/s or HEI shells at 1040 m/s. Firing rate is 3000 rounds/minute maximum, ammunition supply is 250 rounds.
(B variant) 1 x GU-9 55mm single barrel autocannon; cannon fires APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot) and HESH-I (High Explosive Squash Head-Incendiary) rounds at 150 rounds/minute. Ammunition supply is 200 rounds.
(C/D variants) 1 x EP-4 single barrel particle cannon; charged from the protoculture generator, it can fire 9 MJ of particle energy every second.
Hardpoints:
(A and B variants)
8 hardpoints for assorted ordnance, 3 under each wing and 2 under the inlet. The hardpoints are not conformal and can carry MERs (Multiple Ejector Racks). Typical loads carried are:
6 x AGM-65R Maverick missiles on two triple MERs under the wings, with two fuel tanks under the inlet and 4 x Sidewinder missiles under the outer wing hardpoints,
or 4 x GBU-27/B Paveway III laser guided 907kg bombs, with 2 x Sidewinder missiles under the wing hardpoints,
or 8 x CBU-87/B cluster bombs, with usually 4 x Sidewinder missiles under the wing hardpoints,
or 18 x Stiletto missiles on six MERs under the wing hardpoints (after 2009),
or almost any other other ordnance.
(C and D variants)
3 conformal hardpoints for Carapace missile containers under the inlet. These missile containers can contain 6 Diamondback missiles, 12 Hammerhead missiles, or 3 Stiletto missiles. Typically, two Carapaces contain Diamondbacks, and the other Carapace contains Hammerhead missiles for a total of 12 Hammerhead and 12 Diamondback missiles.
6 standard hardpoints, three under each wing, suited for MERs. Typical loads carried are:
8 x Derringer missiles on horizontal MERs on four hardpoints,
or 1 x laser guided mk84 907kg bomb on each hardpoint,
or 1 x Silencer anti-radiation missile on the inner hardpoints,
or a Carapace missile container on each hardpoint (load-out dependent on mission),
or 1 x Firebird long range air-to-air missile on each hardpoint,
or almost any other hard-point mountable ordnance, such as iron bombs.
VIII. Armor:
The skin of the Executioner is composed of an advanced titanium-steel alloy. The armor on the Executioner stops all small arms fire, provides fair protection against heavier infantry weapons, such as a 12.7mm machinegun round, and poor resistance to light mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Zentraedi 22.3mm HE autocannon round. The armored ‘bathtub’ in the Executioner’s pilot compartment stops all small arms fire, provides good protection against heavier infantry weapons, such as a 12.7mm machinegun round, and fair resistance to light mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Zentraedi 22.3mm HE autocannon round.
These planes provide full protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical hazards, using an overpressure cockpit environment activated by radiation and hazardous chemical sensors, or manually when biological warfare conditions are anticipated. The internal consumables supplies can provide atmosphere for approximately eight hours.
IX. Development:
During the Global Civil War, the Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau designed its own equivalent to both the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt and the McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The new aircraft would have to be as effective at taking out ground targets as the A-10, but also as adept at air-to-air combat as the dual-role F/A-18. The design bureau fulfilled these hefty demands brilliantly with the MiG-31. The plane incorporated completely new aerodynamic designs, including a delta wing tipped with the vertical stabilizers, which were in effect very large winglets, and two small canard wings in front. The cockpit section was an ellipsoid, and the main hull extended above and below the wings. Expert detail design and applied aerodynamics, coupled to thrust reversers and revised approach procedures gave the plane the STOL capability of the far older SAAB Draken and Viggen fighters. The MiG-31 was well armored, and had built-in infra-red engine suppressors to counter aircraft-and shoulder-launched infra-red missiles. The armament was impressive as well, with a 35mm four-barreled Gatling cannon under the hull, in front of the inlet. This cannon was a knock-off of the GAU-8/A as installed in the nose of the A-10, and fired similarly powerful ammunition. The one drawback was that exhaust fumes from the cannon’s firing could interfere with the engines, but this was offset by a number of auxiliary inlets and close-off doors in the normal airflow canals. Four hardpoints were also available to mount almost any external store available in the world. The resulting craft was even faster at low altitudes than the F-203, but was still not as good a dog-fighter due to the lower thrust of its engines and its higher weight, causing a lower acceleration and more energy loss during sustained turns. However, as a dual-role attack/fighter aircraft the plane was without equal, surpassing both the A-10 as a ground attack plane and the F/A-18 as a dual-role plane. The USSR was very pleased with the design, since it was an overnight success, and sold a large number to the East-bloc and Chinese forces where it acquired the name of Karyovin.
The MiG-31 was adopted by the UN Spacy in response to lobbying by the Soviet Union to receive defense contracts for what was an overwhelmingly Western supplied force. The A-16 (not to be confused with the A-16 variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon in US Air Force service) was based on the MiG-31, maintaining its airframe and engines, but with western avionics and weapons fit. The final assembly of the aircraft was subcontracted to ARMSCOR of South Africa, which built it from knock down kits produced by Mikoyan Gurevich in the Soviet Union (witht he exception of the A-16, which was a standard MiG-31 with avionics upgrades). The A-16 differed from the MiG-31 in that it had western avionics, the forward nose section and cockpit was sourced McDonnel Douglas, and the main cannon was a fully shrouded. The shrouding incorporated a fume extractor that allowed the A-16 to operate without the MiG-31’s complicated engine inlet ducting. The plane’s armor and engines were improved, with the intent of changing the plane from a multi-role fighter into primarily an attack plane. An additional four hardpoints were added under the wings, and the gun upgraded to a 35mm Armscor design. This variant served with the UN Spacy, and fought its Russian predecessor on several occasions, as these aircraft still served with anti-unification forces.
In 2010, the Executioner was refit again. The A-16B saw its electronics upgraded to the standard UN Spacy suite, was given carrier compatibility, and the already powerful cannon was replaced with a GU-9, the single barrel version of the GU-11, the same cannon that equipped the QF-3000 Ghost drones. This weapon was reasonably effective against Zentraedi mecha. The A-16B Executioner was well-used during the Zentraedi uprisings.
In 2020, when almost all other forces had upgraded their combat aircraft with designs postdating the Robotech era, the UEDF Navy and TAF decided to acquire an improved model of the Executioner as their prime dual-role attack aircraft. The Executioner C (Navy) and D (Tactical Air Force) were the only pre-1999 designed models to be equipped with fusion turbines. This modification eliminated the dependence on fossil fuel sources, and gave the planes effectively supercruise capabilities and unlimited range. However, the former fuel tanks were not used as reaction-mass tanks, but rather simply deleted in favor of extra strengthening and the UEDF standard electronics set. This meant that the fusion turbines could not be boosted, and that neither the speed nor the maximum altitude performance of the Executioner was greatly affected. In addition, the use of fusion turbines mandated a protoculture power source, and the installment of a protoculture generator provided enough excess current to replace the GU-9 cannon with the EP-4, the same particle cannon used on the VF-4 Lightning.
Both of the Southern Cross variants served until the Invid invasion.
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The Scorpion-class is in a class all by its self, quite literally. This ship was the Invid Regent’s personal landing craft throughout much of his campaign against the Tirolean Mercantile Empire. This ship had limited troop carrying ability, but sported massive offensive weapons systems and lavish crew accommodations for the Regent and his entourage.
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Very little is known about this specific mecha. One example was found at the time of the capture of the Robotech Repair Satellite. What is known is that it was armed with two anti-ship sized particle cannons and could carry a small contingent of troops, presumably for boarding operations. It is not known how many were produced or how exactly they were deployed.
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Rockwell International VA-X-2 Bronco II Close Air Support Aerodynamic Demonstrator
by Tim Wing
The Rockwell VA-X-2 Bronco II was an experimental Close Air Support Veritech designed in the mid-teens, during the Malcontent Uprising. When the UN Spacy canceled the program, Rockwell marketed it to the US Air Force. The US Air Force also passed, and the Bronco II never made it past the aerodynamic demonstrator.
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The CVR-1 armor was developed in 2027 by the United Earth Expeditionary Force to be compatible with the VR-010 Cyclone MOSPEADA transformable combat motorcycle. This armor provides limited protection against (up to) .50 Caliber Browning AP, and good protection against small arms for (up to) 7.62mm and grenade and shell fragments.
CVR-1B w/ CVRH003
Features:
Environmental protection, maintaining life support in vacume or in a Nuclear, Biological or Chemical environment (NBC)
Tempurature control up to 200 degrees Celcius
Integrated Heads Up Display (HUD)
Integrated short range radio with encryption
General Characteristics:
Weight: 8.1 kg
Life support: 24 hours in an NBC environment, oxygen for up to 4 hours
Variants:
CVR-1A: Early design distinguished by its heavier leg armor. This armor saw limited service until replaced by the CVR-1B style armor.
CVR-1B: The most prolific version of the CVR-1 style armor. Served with the UEEF until the late thirties.
CVR-1F: Female specific CVR-1 armor set.
Helmet variants:
CVRH001: Helmet with armored chin piece and vison. No integrated HUD.
CVRH002: Flight Helmet with integrated weapons cuing system (HUD) for use with Alpha and other aerospace fighters. Helmet is constructed from a semi-flexible Kevlar “hood”, rather than the standard hard shell used by the rest of the CVRH series.
CVRH003: Advanced infantry helmet. Also known as the “Grunt”.
CVRH004: Reconnaissance and Communications Helmet. Equipped with IR imaging,
CVR-1B w/ CVRH005
telescopic magnification, combat data recorder and electromagnetic field detection. Also known as the “Scoop”.
CVRH005: Commander’s helmet, with enhance data recording capabilities and long range encrypted radio set.
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The Noelind Anti-gravity Cargo Mover was based on the Yer’kimi Hava Karsı Bioroid Skysled. Three times as large, and able to lift six times the cargo as the Skysled, this vehicle was used for everything from recovering damages Bioroids to moving cargo under battlefield conditions.
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The Oleald (FPA4) Aerospace Fighter Power Armor was a design used by the Zentraedi Border Fleet in the waning years of the empire. Designed specifically for a male pilot, it was a response to the complaints of male officers that they did not have a mecha which was equal to the Queadluun-Rau series of female Fighter Armors. This mecha utilized the same inertial vector control system as the Queadluun-Rau, but had a much heavier weapons and armor fitment.
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its engines and its higher weight, causing a lower acceleration and more energy loss during sustained turns. However, as a dual-role attack/fighter aircraft the plane was without equal, surpassing both the A-10 as a ground attack plane and the F/A-18 as a dual-role plane. The USSR was very pleased with the design, since it was an overnight success, and sold a large number to the East-bloc and Chinese forces where it acquired the name of Karyovin.
ship sized particle cannons and could carry a small contingent of troops, presumably for boarding operations. It is not known how many were produced or how exactly they were deployed.
by Tim Wing
