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Originally Posted by Morgun
I realize that. I originally only considered them getting up to escape velocity quickly in the atmosphere, which the show indicates they can't do. I didn't really think about them rising up out of the atmosphere to get rid of drag and then slowly getting up to speed. That is certainly possible for them. But being up beyond the atmosphere and only initially moving around mach 2 or so would present dangers for the Gundams if they were spotted. The difference in relative velocities between the Gundams and other orbiting MS would leave the Gundams vulnerable due to the large amount of kinetic energy that would be imparted to the projectiles fired from the orbiting MS's guns.
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For whatever strange reason, the power blocs have consistently been portrayed as being unable to track the Gundams at all. And even the few times where they managed to do so, they've been too incompetent to do anything about it.