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Background Information
VF-0 is the first production Variable Fighter produced by the U.N. Spacy. It has a number of limitations over later models as much of the "standard" modules like the miniaturized nuclear reactors or NTR engines were not ready in time for the unification wars making it more of a generation zero Variable Fighter than a generation one.
It primarily fought against the SV-51 which the variable fighter deployed by Anti-UN forces. SV-51 and VF-0 should be for the most part roughly comparable (and scale to each other), though with a slight advantage for SV-51 in most respects.
For those who are not familiar with Macross, Variable Fighters are the U.N. Spacy's primary space and air fighter (though in VF-0's case it's space capabilities are very limited). Variable fighters can transform between three distinct forms.
Fighter: A fighter jet that is 18.69 meters long.
GERWALK: A transitional point when transforming between the Fighter and Battroid forms.
Battroid: A 14 meter tall humanoid mech.
Feats marked with [Angel] are using a configuration where an unmanned Ghost fighter is attached to VF-0 allowing the aircraft to use it as an extra engine.
Maneuverability/Kinematics
[Transformation Rate] Transformation between forms is fairly quick.
[Transformation Rate] Extended Slow motion transformation.
[RCS] RCS thrusters can assist with maneuvering and allow for VF-0 to operate outside of the atmosphere
[Space] VF-0 can operate it's engines for a few minutes without oxygen from the atmosphere.
[Deceleration] Has an F-15 style Air brake.
[Pitch] Takes a few seconds to do a 180 degree pitch change.
[Roll] Pretty self explanatory
[Yaw/Angel] Yaw's somewhat quickly.
[Acceleration] Accelerates off into the distance.
[Speed] Sustains a speeds near mach 2.4
[Speed] Outruns it's own sound (well if this had sound you would be able to hear that happening anyway).
[Speed] According to this site (click on the "machine spec" button) VF-0's maximum speed is 2.74 mach.
[Climb Rate/Speed] Sustains mach 1.2 in a vertical climb
[Supermaneuverability/Pitch] VF-0 is capable of extreme high angle of attack maneuvers due to it's maneuvering thrusters and 2-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles.
[Supermaneuverability/Herbst Maneuver] Preforms a J-Turn.
[Supermaneuverability/Pugachev's Cobra] Preforms Pugachev's Cobra
[Agility] Avoids falling rocks.
[Acceleration] Accelerates away from an aircraft carrier.
[General] A short melee fight in GERWALK mode.
[General] Avoiding missiles.
[Deceleration] VF-0's legs are flexible enough to provide counter thrust.
[Retro thrust] VF-0's legs are flexible enough they can provide thrust in the opposite direction.
Durability/Endurance
[Impact/Battroid] Gets buried by large falling rocks.
[Explosive/Fighter] Survives a proximity detonation of a torpedo underwater.
[Impact] This crash happens.
[Gunfire/Limit] Gets easily overpenetrated by SV-51's gunpod. Though even when heavilly damaged still has enough control to ram a SV-51.
[Gunfire/Limit] Even glancing fire from SV-51's gunpod does non-insubstantial damage.
[Endurence] Still somewhat flyable after taking a round through one of it's engines.
[Fuel Consumption] VF-0 is specifically noted to go through fuel quickly.
Strength
[Lifting] Shifts a large rock.
[Lifting] A SV-51 deforms an aircraft carrier's hangar door.
[Throwing] Tosses a rock.
Weapons
[Power] Shatters several large rocks which are larger than VF-0
[Power] Makes a large explosion.
[Power] Shoots down a SV-51 that is in Battroid Mode (SV-51 should be comparably durable to VF-0)
[Precision] Can be used to shoot down incoming missiles.
[Precision] Another example.
[Power] Cause large water spouts.
[Power] Destroys a SV-51
[Normal Salvo] Here is an example of what a normal missile salvo looks like.
[Normal Salvo] And another.
[Targeting Sophistication/Off Bore] Fires a salvo of missiles at a target that appears to be ~90 degrees off axis.
[Targeting Sophistication/Off Bore Multitarget] A SV-51 targets two independent targets which are behind it simultaneously.
While VF-0 doesn't show as much variety in it's armament as SV-51 it should be capable of carring compareable weapons to SV-51
[Larger Missiles] Can mount what appear to be larger longer ranged missiles though they didn't appear to preform significantly different than the normal micromissiles.
[Anti-Ship Missile] SV-51 one shots a destroyer with a AShM.
[Thermobaric Bombs] SV-51 can deploy Thermobaric weapons.
[Power/High End] Blows a leg off of a mech and causes some smallish explosions (the mech it is shooting at is ~10 meters tall).
[Targeting/Precision] Controlled via eye tracking works as point defense against incoming missiles.
Miscellaneous
[Pilot visibility/Battroid] While in Battroid mode VF-0 has screens to allow 360 degree vision.
[Sensors] SV-51 appears to somehow look through a solid wall.
[Sensors] SV-51's head sensors have an IR setting.
[Sensors] It has cameras which are both stabilized and have massive amounts of zoom.
[Fine Control] Able to grab and move a 11 year old around without injuring her.
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