Question about the YF-19

[Timberwolf]

hey guys,

This'll be one of my first posts, up until now, I've just been lurkin'. Anywho, I was checkin' out some info on Macross Mecha Designs and I noticed something odd in the lineart of the YF-19 Alpha:

There is what appears to be a quad-barreled gatling gun in the lower left hand portion of the torso in the pic of the YF-19's Battroid mode. Perhaps I'm wrong, but either way, can anyone give me a clue as to what this is?

Hopefully, the pic I attached will work properly. If not, you can see it over at Macross Mecha Designs

<_<

[Graham]

There has been a lot of speculation as to what that is. However, I don't believe it is a gun.

The official Japanese specs and the English translations on the Macross Compendium, list all of the YF-19's armament, but do not mention any torso mounted weapons.

My own theory is that it is a sensor cluster.

Graham

[McKlown]

Backups in case the head is crushed/disabled?

[JB0]

I would guess a lamp of some sort.

It seems like a good idea to me.

[Mr March]

Pez dispensor...I always loved those

[Battlepod]

Pez dispensor...I always loved those

[JB0]

Pez dispensor...I always loved those

Heck yeah!

ACTIVATE THE CANDY CANNON!

[ArchVile]

I'm guessing sensor to help with the 360 cockpit, some Titan mobile suits had that.

[myk]

'Just shooting in the dark here, but in the introduction sequence for Macross VFX, isn't the '19 shown riddling a Zentran ship with bullets in fighter mode with some sort of gatling weapon mounted underneath it? After a switch to Battroid mode, the lower left hand of the torso is where that gatling would be, wouldn't it?

[VF-19]

'Just shooting in the dark here, but in the introduction sequence for Macross VFX, isn't the '19 shown riddling a Zentran ship with bullets in fighter mode with some sort of gatling weapon mounted underneath it? After a switch to Battroid mode, the lower left hand of the torso is where that gatling would be, wouldn't it?

That sounds a heck of a lot like the hand held gunpod...

The only onboard weapons that the 19 has is the head laser and the wing root lasers.

But yah, I'm thinking either a secondary sensor cluster, or a pez dispenser to placate rogue zentradi...

[xMaDxPeNgUiNx]

Hmm PEZ.... The stuff of dreams

[Valkyrie Nut]

when in trouble, use the PEZ grenades!

[ManxoChu]

Could be a sensor as Graham has stated or some sort of connecting mechanism that stabilizes it in fighter mode. A pez dispenser is probably top on the theories list next to the flatulent vent!

Sithlord I believe you're right about those being some sort of connectors. I found a couple of pics in MW's Magazines section... first off...

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/magazi...2v-mg-page3.jpg: If you look at the smallest pic on that page, you see those same connectors on either side of the GU-15. Granted, this is using a single-mode model of the 19A.

However, look at this pic of a Three mode -19 model. It takes a bit of imagination (which us macross fans have plenty of), but by using those two pics as a reference it's most likely a form of connector.

**My** guess based on those pics is that they might be some sort of hydraulics used in transformation as well as to to keep the -19 together.

Heh heh... gotta lay off the sugar.

[Mr March]

Hehehe

[Nied]

I had always figured they were some form of "headlights" similar to the high power lights on the shoulders of the VF-1.

[Macross_Fanboy]

Maybe it's the landing gear light?

[Nied]

Maybe it's the landing gear light?

We see those in the last episode of M+. The landing light is mounted on the nose gear. Isamu uses it as a spot light to find Myung.

[Macross_Fanboy]

Yeah I know. But the landing gear in the nose is rather close to the torso.