I always thought that Raptors on the Rush was a bit like a nerfed Command and Conquer 2 Orca assault: expensive, a bad idea, and subsequently embarrassing. But it turns out J. C. Staff didn’t try too hard when writing and drawing this flashback.
Well, who knows how bad the war was at that stage. At some point, it probably didn’t matter if a WORM has radar. If you’re going to Rush with Raptors, might as well mount more missiles at the cost of stealth, and add a second Gatling gun.
I’m just nitpicking. You shouldn’t watch watch Sky Girls for the air combat anyway; you might as well watch something like Macross Plus or Macross Zero six times over. After all, the show is about four (later five) pilots and a crew who occasionally fight but otherwise do mundane things like routine maintenance and living life aboard a ship. When they do fight, they are almost always consummate professionals. The same can’t be said for kid pilots in other series. It’s refreshing.
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From what I know though, the missiles are supposed to be stored in an internal missile bay, not on the wings.
That was my impression as well, but I guess they could always mount hard points at some point in a fictional future.