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   The SDF-17 differed from its source ship, the SDF-1/Macross, in a number of ways. Obviously it still had its fold drive and never needed to be reconfigured into "standing mode" to employ its main gun, but there were other differences that we established early on in the development process of the original UF Core, but never got a chance to show "on screen".

Probably the biggest one is that it had landing gear. Like, actual wheeled landing gear. Three humongous twin-wheeled bogeys that deployed from hatches in the underside of the ship. As you might imagine, this was very, very rarely used; on the rare occasions when the ship made planetfall at all, she almost always operated as a floating naval vessel (possibly with the aid of her antigravity systems, since it's not at all clear that she would have been passively buoyant). It would have been almost impossible to find a planetary surface that could withstand the colossal ground pressures applied by those wheels.

So why did it have them?

Because the Takatoku/Bandai/Matchbox 1:3000-scale SDF-1 toy has them, and I have one. It's what CLULESS based the ship on. :)

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