SDF-1 Macross
| SDF-1 Macross | |
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 The Super Dimension Fortress One (SDF-1) Macross in Cruiser mode. |
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| Description | |
| Original Designer | Kazutaka Miyatake |
| Preproduction name | Megaroad / Megaload |
| Length | 1210 m |
| Operational Mass | 18,000,000 t |
| Main Machinery | Overtechnology Macross heat pile system cluster, Overtechnology Macross gravity control system, Overtechnology Macross fold system cluster (lost during maiden voyage) |
| Main Thruster | Overtechnology Macross nozzle cluster |
| Vertical Thruster | Overtechnology main nozzle cluster |
| Vernier Thruster | Overtechnology vernier thrusters |
| Complement | 20000; 76000 civilians (reduced to 56000 and then 40000 by attrition) |
| Armament | |
| Main Cannons | Overtechnology Macross bow-firing super-dimension-energy cannon with beam polarizing converging system. |
| Auxiliary Cannons | 8 Overtechnology guided converging beam cannon systems, 4 high speed 178-cm-diameter electromagnetic rail cannons. |
| Missiles | Main: large automatic anti-ship missile launchers. Auxiliary: various missile emplacements. |
| Mecha | |
| Variable Vehicles and Other Mecha | 212 VF-1 Valkyrie (2009 February 7, 120 VF-1A, 12 VF-1D, 50 VF-1J, 30 VF-1S). 300+ VF-1 Super Valkyrie (2010 February 11). Destroids: 587 Destroids initially stationed on docked SLV-111 Daedalus, including 2 HWR-00-Mk. II Monster, 85 MBR-07-Mk. II Spartan, and approximately 500 MBR-04-Mk. VI Tomahawk (reduced to 440 subsequently). A third HWR-00-Mk. II Monster, 40 ADR-04-Mk. X Defender and over 20 MBR-04-Mk. XII Phalanx built in onboard factory. |
The SDF-1 Macross /məˈkrɒs/ is a fictional interstellar transforming spacecraft from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a science fiction anime series that aired in Japan between 1982–1983. It was later edited and amalgamated into the American animation series Robotech (1985). Mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue created the original SDF-1 design for the first Macross anime series.
SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) refers to the titular space battleship being like a space fortress capable of space-folding, a means of travelling faster-than-light in subspace.
Due to the popularity of the series, Macross has also appeared in many video games set in the Macross universe.
In February 2009, a special event, Macross: The Super Dimension Space Launching Ceremony, was held in Akihabara to commemorate the fictional launch of the SDF-1 Macross in the original anime series. During the event, toy manufacturer, Yamato, displayed the prototype for a 1/2000 scale replica toy of the SDF-1.
In the fictional Macross anime universe, a massive alien spaceship totaling 1210 meters (3,970 feet), had crashed on the unsuspecting Earth in 1999. It crash landed on South Ataria, a fictional island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is located at the extreme end of the "Ogasawara Island chain". Upon detailed inspection of the wreckage by an international team of experts, it was revealed that the spaceship was manned by giant aliens many times larger than humans and that their technology was far beyond that of Earth at that point in time.
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