The gun pod has thus retained a primary role on the Macross battlefield. OverTechnology advances in ballistic technology and the aforementioned limitations of other weapons ensure the greatest advantage of the gun pod is the limited defensive measures the enemy has against this direct fire type of kinetic weapon (armor, pin-point barriers). Missiles are susceptible to jamming or interception while beam weapons suffer influence by interstellar gas, magnetic fields and can be foiled by Anti-Optical Weapon Vaporization Armor ( Macross Chronicle 2nd Edition Technology Sheet 01E Variable Fighter: Defenses). However, recently the Macross Chronicle (2008, 2013) has provided several reasons for the prominence of gun pods by describing the limitations of missiles and beam guns. For most of the Macross franchise history there was no rationale why bullet firing weapons remained relevant in a fictional world filled with such swarms of missiles and practical directed-energy weapons. Macross fiction included advanced micro-missiles and directed-energy weapons (DEW) brought about by investigating a crashed alien spacecraft filled with OverTechnology of the Macross (OTM), yet ballistic weapons like the gun pod remained one of the primary weapons for the fighter-robot Valkyries of the series.
Modelled after real rotary cannons used by modern militaries, the gun pod was drawn with a signature aerodynamic styling accompanied by a distinctive saw-like sound when fired. The gun pod of Macross was first introduced in the original 1982 Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated television series and has been the mainstay weapon of the transforming variable fighters ever since. This section features an article examining the firepower of the fictional GU-11 Gun Pod for the VF-1 Valkyrie from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated TV series
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