>AJACS Veritech Helicopter
>
>To be fair, the computer simulations showed that, with its thruster
>configuration, it would've worked, and the "rotor system" was really
>more of an adjustable vector control system, with adjustable thrusters
>at the tips of the four blades. The fly-by-wire system would have
>been capable of adjusting between rotary-wing and spaceflight modes
>transparently to the pilot, and by all estimations, it would've been a
>fairly capable space combatant. Still, the whole concept was just
>weird, and didn't address any actual need the WDF had,
>so they passed on the idea. For a while it looked like the Royal
>Salusian Armed Forces might buy it, but budget cutbacks in 2179
>finally killed the project altogether.

I've always likeed the AJACS, but I have to agree with your assesment that as an aerospace fighter it was of limited use, expecially since the transformation mechanism was just downright bad (I know - I frame captured it off VHS almost 15 years ago to analyze it. They have a giant hinged armor plate that automagically flips on the underbelly of the thing in chopper mode to become the chest armor in battroid mode - in 3 frames!). Still it was intriguing enough that I tryed to fond a way to salvage it, and ended up sort of merging it with an alpha fighter to get something that was at least a little more practical. If course, I also specified it as primarily a close-air-support craft, so there you have it...

Fun write-ups - I almost thought that your Monster II was based off of the version in Macross II, which looked like it was about the size of the SDF-1 in attack mode :)

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