Veritech fighter
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The Veritech fighter is a fictional transforming walking machine in Robotech. In the late '90s, an official backronym was invented by Harmony Gold for the term "Veritech:" Variable Engineering and Robotic Integration TECHnology. The name is derived from variable fighter, the term for transforming fighters used in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (the series from which the first part of Robotech was adapted). Veritech is sometimes abbreviated "VT," though mostly in the Jack McKinney novel adaptations.
The nomenclature for Veritech Fighters partially follows that established in the 20th century by the US Armed Forces. "V" is added to the beginning of the fighter's designation to stand for "Variable" or "Veritech." Unlike in Macross, manufacturers are generally not mentioned.
Veritech fighters:
- VF-1 Valkyrie (Robotech Defense Force)
- Sylphid[1] (Army of the Southern Cross)
- YF-4
- Condor (Robotech Expeditionary Force)
- VFA-6 Alpha (RDF/REF)
- VF-X-7
- VF-8 Logan (ASC)
- The VFB-9 Beta (REF)
- The VFH-10 AGAC Veritech Fighter/Helicopter (ASC)
Veritech Land Mecha
- VHT-1 Spartas Veritech Hovertank (REF/ASC)
- VR-038 Veritech Cyclone (REF)
- VR-041 Veritech Cyclone (REF)
- VR-052 Veritech Cyclone (REF)
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ The Robotech narrator called certain unnamed fighters "Veritech fighters" in episode 39. The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross source material call these fighters Sylphid fighters, but do not describe them as transformable. The Robotech: Invasion comics refers to the ConBat fighters as nontransformable, but they are based on Genesis Climber Mospeada's Convert fighters, which are transformable.
