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[Fox]

Oh yeah, Lunar's second question about the Robotech. I take it that you're referring to these scenes?







Ordinarily, the VF-1 Valkyrie's GU-11 55mm triple-barreled smoothbore rotary gunpod is equipped with APFSDS (Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot), HESH-I (High-Explosive Squash Head-Incendiary) or HEAP (High-Explosive Armor-Piercing) rounds, depending on the mission profile. Five-hundred round magazines are used to carry these munitions into battle. The Valkyries you refer to are part of the honor guard for Max Sterling and Miriya Parino's wedding. I'm not really certain but those lasers sure ain't part of the munitions package for the Valkyries. Most likely, their gunpods were modified with photonic adapters that enabled them to emit non-damaging light beams. Just think of them as part of the occasion.

The lasers you see coming from the nose fairings are basically a mistake. Tatsunoko Studios used several animation sub-contractors to help out with animating the fight scenes. Anime Friend was one of these and they were the ones responsible for the error. In reality, the fairings are where the primary infrared sensors are located and are also the attachment points for the legs when the Valkyrie switches to Battloid mode. However, when the Robotech pen-and-paper and tabletop RPGs came out, a lot of fans accepted the lasers as canon and listed them as weapons. Also, the official RObotech website lists the lasers as exclusive modifications for VF-1s manufactured aboard the SDF-1 as evidenced that the VF-1s built on Earth lack these lasers. However, they failed to mention where the displaced sensors and attachment points were relocated.

Pretty sharp eyes you've got there if you noticed those goofs. Hope i was able to answer your questions sufficiently.