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Originally Posted by 4Tran
I think that it's more likely to be a new Valkyrie rather than a pre-existing one. If they were playing for nostalgia, they could have either shown off a VF-1 or used VF-19s instead of VF-171s.
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Given that the VF-171 looks almost identical to the VF-17 from Macross 7 with the addition of a slightly extended nosecone and a less bulbous engine cowling, the new fighter may be a VF-11 descendant or redesign, if not an actual VF-11 itself. It's not like the series AVOIDS playing on nostalgia - if they weren't, we wouldn't have had as many homages as we've seen so far, the school Alto goes to wouldn't have to be designed to resemble the original ASS-1 in firing position, nor would they have had to bring back the Queadlunn-Rea/Rau's instead of just letting Klein and company pilot all-new Zentradi designs or VF's in miclone form.
Heck, they even brought the VB-6 in from Digital Mission VF-X-2 into the main show here; I don't see them being afraid to introduce old fighters from previous series, given this is a 25th anniversary series to celebrate the Macross franchise. However, the lines of the fighter do suggest the VF-11 as being the basis for the design, whether it is a homage to the 'classic' fighter of Macross Plus/Macross 7, or if it's a whole new design that we've yet to see deployed by the NUNS in the Frontier fleet. We know that various fleets have different standards and laws as well as mores, according to what Grace and Sheryl have revealed... so they may well have different companies supplying each fleet with their fighters, explaining the differences we've seen in deployed units across the various OVA's.
Well, on top of the whole 'it was a movie/dream' thing...