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GBP-1S Ground Battle Package, Space variant, installed on the VF-1J Block 4 Valkyrie flown by Admiral Richard Hunter during the first Robotech War.
Multiple missile launch systems of the GBP-1S Ground Battle Package, Space variant.
Frontal (above) and rear (below) view of the GBP-1S with all missile pods open.
Detail views of the GBP-1S’s missile load out. Full payload, on early variants, included sixty-two GH-32 280mm short-range missiles (16 in chest, 11 in each shoulder, and 12 on each leg), three GH-100 armor-piercing short-range missiles in each forearm armor, with six additional missiles in each arm for a total of eighteen arm missiles, and six H-22T incendiary short-range missiles, three in each hip (86 missiles total).
Detail view of the GBP/PWS-01C Podded Weapons System (chest) with 10 GH-32 280mm short-range missiles (right) and 16 GH-35 short-range missiles (left).
Detail view of the GBP/PWS-01L Podded Weapons System (leg) with with GH-32 280mm short-range missiles (top and bottom left) and GH-100 armor-piercing short-range missiles (right).
Detail view of the GBP/PWS-01S Podded Weapons System (shoulder) with with 11 GH-32 280mm short-range missiles (left) and 32 GH-33 short-range missiles (right).
Detail view of the GBP/PWS-01T Podded Weapons System (torso) with three H-22T incendiary short-range missiles. Also shown is the hip armor in the open position, allowing the Valkyries fusion turbines to take in air for reaction mass when operating in an atmosphere.
From left to right: GH-33 short-range missile, GH-32 280mm short-range missile, GH-35 short-range missile, H-22T incendiary short-range missile and GH-100 armor-piercing short-range missile.
GBP-1S Armor Package installed on a Block 12 VF-1J Valkyrie.
This is a late production version of the GBP-1S Armor Package. The most obvious difference was the heavier (and blockier appearing) armor.
Exploded view of the GBP-1S (late variant) armor package.
Baseline GBP-1 Ground Battle Package, installed on a VF-1J Block 2 Valkyrie.
The GBP-1 is recognizable by it’s lack of main and Vernier thrusters.
Technical view of the GBP-1S Ground Battle Package, Space variant, as installed on the VF-1J Block 4 Valkyrie.
Experimental GBP-X Ground Battle Package, as installed on a VF-1J Block 2 Valkyrie.
VF-1J Block 4 Valkyrie jettisoning its battle damaged GBP-1S armor package.
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Original artwork by: Shoji Kawamori, Miyatake Kazutaka, Haruhiko Mikimoto and Hidetaka Tenjin
Images From – Macross Perfect Memory, Variable Fighter Master File VF-1 Valkyrie: Wings of Space
Content by Tim Wing
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