VF-1 Valkyrie

Macross Mecha Manual

In the fictional series Macross and its English adaptation Robotech, the first mass-produced variable fighter (Macross) or Veritech fighter (Robotech) is called the VF-1 Valkyrie.



The VF-1 was initially designed by the legendary Japanese mecha designer Shoji Kawamori (with contributions by his Studio Nue partner Kazutaka Miyatake) in 1980-1982 to be the centerpiece mecha design of the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982-1983).



In Robotech, the VF-1 is most commonly referred to as the "Veritech Fighter", which is short for Variable Engineering and Robotic Integration TECHnology, but its official popular name "Valkyrie" is used in a few infrequent references.

Robotech

Robotech

Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.

Year                     Generation / Saga (release date)
1999 - 2014        Robotech: The Macross Saga (1985)
2022                    Robotech II: The Sentinels* (1987)
2027                    Robotech: The Movie* (1986)
2029 - 2030        Robotech Masters (1985)
2042 - 2044        Robotech: The New Generation (1985)
2044 -                 Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006)