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Originally Posted by DoomRavager
Not really the best thread in which to say this, but leaving aside any information from other sources, focusing only on the anime, it was never stated that Japanese mecha are better than American. Neither are they in fact better than American mecha. It's even stated in the anime that the engines on the best the Japanese have to offer besides the Takemi (Type-94-1C) have outright inferior performance to those on the Strike Eagle and have to get around the limitation by rigorous control with supplementary control surfaces. When they said that American TSFs use brute thruster power to maneuver, that wasn't saying they were inferior to oh so elegant Shiranui, that was acknowledging an area in which they were definitely superior because they had superior thrust to weight ratio and can maneuver with thrusters alone. On the flip side the Shiranui is by Yuuya's account much twitchier and sensitive than the Strike Eagle, hence arguably very responsive and maneuverable if handled properly even if engine power is inferior.
That's why Yuuya spend a whole story arc trying to get a handle on the Fubuki and Shiranui, because they handle completely differently from what he's used to. They pretty much are arguably "better at doing other stuff" from each other.
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Your explanation is right but there is something odd.
If you are a captain like she was, she would do the best for her pilots. If she believes that the American mecha is better than the Japanese one, then she would do nothing because the guy would be more efficient with the mecha that he always uses. So if she forces him to use a different mecha in a life / death situation that means that she believes that the Japanese mecha is better in the end and is the difference between life and death. So, Japanese mecha is better than American mecha. Lets not forget that she has combat experience and he has none which means that newbie should listen what the older ones have to say like in any war. I think this is what I was trying to say.