[META] [RFC] Militarization around the 2022 period

[Black Aeronaut]

BA: All in favor of partnership. I can see demilled VF-1's being a popular civilian item in mid-late Season 2. Fast, versatile, and cool.

YT-hull freighters... yeah, those'll sell like hotcakes, especially to Warsies who don't already have one.

Now I just have to figure out a way to fit the VF-9 Cutlass into my timeline somewhere, because it's cool.

I've already settled on the VF-14 Vampire as an export model built by an eventual Gwynedd-based competitor of SBA... VF-9 might be their early product. If you want the -17 it's yours, at the appropriate point in the timeline.

Awesome.  VF-9 looks like a cut-down version of the VF-4.  Perhaps the two are to each other what the F-16 is to the F/A-18?
Also, which version of the -14?  The M3 or the Macross 7 PLUS?  Because the M3 version didn't have much grace to it... uglier than the -17 by far.  That, and the 7 PLUS version's battroid mode looks even more medieval than the VF-4's.... all beefy and executioner-esque.  The thing is like Drago facing down Rocky when he says "Ey vill break yew."

The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

The Boskone never stop thinking of ways to attack our way of life, and neither should we

That doesn't require an arms race, though.

Eh.  Mostly prototypes and proof-of-concept models.  (See BAT's all-but-non-existant Hustler-class.)  When the time comes for it, the big shiny button that makes the birdies come out will be waiting.