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Battle Pod
Mini-Missile
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Battle Pod
Equipment Type: zentradi battle pod
Government: Mardook
Accommodation: pilot only
Dimensions: height 10.4 meters
Mass: empty mass unknown
Structure: unknown
Power Plant: rear mounted engines
Propulsion: thrust unknown; 4 x rear right/left thrusters (mounted two per pod); 2 x rear thrusters (mounted in rear center hull); many x vernier thrusters
Design Features: one main forward sensor
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Weapons:
2 x large fixed-forward beam cannons (mounted forward on dorsal hull)
2 x turret beam cannons (mounted forward on ventral hull)
Bombs & Missiles:
2 x retracting mini-missile launchers with 36 x mini-missiles per launcher (mounted one per left/right thruster pods; 72 missiles total)
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The Battle Pod is the standard combat mecha of the Mardook's Zentradi forces. It is a simple mecha, but is well armed with both beam cannons and missiles. A full-sized Zentradi pilots the Battle Pod while lying forward across almost the full length of the pod.
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Debut: Macross II, Episode 1
Pilot(s): no notables
Other appearances: none
Original mechanical designer: Koichi Ohata |
Translated information from Entertainment Bible #51, B-Club #79, Mecha Press #7 and Macross Chronicle
Images From - This Is Animation Special 5: Macross II, B-Club #79 and other macross books
C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist
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