Chronicle Mechanic: SDFM: UN 19a UN Military Vehicles

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UN Military Vehicles
Various Special vehicles that assist in the activities of the forces.

Hull Explanation:
The frontline war potential of the UN Forces was replaced by armaments based on the new technology and ideas by obtaining Overtechnology.  However, the new technology did not reform all of the operational systems of the UN Forces.  Especially, the cheap, highly reliable, existing military vehicles that supported the war potential at the rear in the logistics section and so on and didn't combat directly against the aliens, continued to be operated.  They are extremely various, and they tell of the hugeness of the organization called the UN Forces.

Caption: GN XM-3002 Junky
6-wheeled buggy for use both in and outside of an atmosphere.  The hull, which is divided into a front and rear, is mobile at the connection part, and is suited for running on irregular ground.

Caption: Crawler DL-88 Centipede Container Specification [specified] Vehicle
Two or more containers can be loaded on an open-style load-bed heavy truck for use both in and outside of an atmosphere which can also run under low gravity.

Caption: Containers loaded into the load-bed.  Moreover, because it is very large, a ladder, step and so on for getting on and off have been installed.

Caption: When the SDF-1 Macross went replenish goods [resources] at Mars Sera Base, a lot of Junkys, Centipedes and so on were operated.

Caption: Various special purpose vehicles were used inside the Macross warship.  It can be said that the space inside of the spacious warship facilited their operation.

Caption: At the time of Space War I, the spectacle of small scale fighting vehicle units being deployed to town areas was also seen daily.


Reverse
Operation Record
A lot of the military vehicles, which the UN Forces operated at the time of Space War I, were aimed at logistics, security preservation and so on.  As for this, the main force of ground armaments shifted to Destroids, Battroids and so on, and it is also related to the fading of the significance of the fighting potential of existing armoured fighting vehicles, like the tank.

Especially, the SDF-1 Macross, to which the deployment of Variable Fighters (VF) and Destroids had been quickly hastened, and to assist them, a variety of different kinds of ship-borne vehicle were operated, and it's conceivable that the within ship arsenal also increased there production depending on need.  Because the interior of the Macross extended to an overall length of more than 1.2 Km, it can be said that the large-scale all of the operations increased the importance of support [auxillary] vehicles in supporting ship operations [management].  If the ship-borne armaments of Macross is said, though the VF-1 series is the first to call to mind, these operation vehicles also obviously played an active role in ship-borne armaments.

Caption: In the spacious interior of the Macross, there were many sections that didn't maintain a means for movement, so small vehiciles were incessantly used for the movement of military personnel.

Caption: There are also many cases where military vehicles were sold off to civilians, and Roy Fokker cherished driving during his time off in the military-use high-speed jeep that he owned.

Military Vehicles 1
These maintenance [servicing] vehicles operated by the aviation unit inside the Macross are mostly special-purpose specialed vehicles.  In the fight with the Zentraadi forces, they contributed to maintaining the war potential of the Macross by working behind the scenes to in support of the VF-1 force who's sorties came one after another.

Caption: Sentinal M-299 Shugaafutto

Caption: Power Supply Vehicle

Caption: Water Supply Vehicle

Caption: Crane Vehicle

Caption: Towing vehicle

Caption: Fire extinction tank


Military Vehicles 2
The role of the infantry is important in the UN Forces which developed technology [technologies], and various military vehicles that support them exist.  Furthermore, military meal vehicles and so on were appropriated to support civilians who suffered from war damage.

Caption: Military Meal Vehicle

Caption: GN XM-30002 Junky

Caption: Armoured Vehicle

Caption: Military (use) jeep


Military Vehicles 3
Special vehicles were given to the military police "MP", medical institutions and so on that took on public peace [order], medical services and so on.  It can be said that these are the kind of military vehicles that stuck naturally [mostly] to daily life.

Caption: MP Police Motorcycle

Caption: UN Forces Ambulance

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