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"Thicc thighs save lives" Truly a man of culture.

Love the half built dautress, and Graze swapping back and forth in the background, always interesting to see what's being worked on at the moment

15:23 There's also that bit in Unicorn, where the Banshee and Unicorn are wrestling on a Base Jabber. The Base Jabber does indeed fail to maintain stability when the Banshee lets go.

If I had to guess, remote controlling a Base Jabber through handlebars works the same way you can make a mobile suit move like a real person with nothing but two foot pedals, a throttle, and a joystick.

There is also the one SFS that briefly appeared in Zeta Gundam, it looks suspiciously like the Waverider, and it carried a Hakushiki piloted by a man who looks suspiciously like Char.

the Base Jabber is likely to be piloted by some sensors on the mobile suit's feet rather than the handles. the Unicorn was able to kick off one of the Jestas and commandeer it's base jabber just by standing on it.

Type 89: Alright buddy, where am I suppose to go? Jegan: Drive us straight into them! Type 89: Alright! Wait WHAT Jegan: YA YEET Type 89: YOU SONUVA---

Thunderbolt really showed just how dominating a coordinated team of an ace ms pilot and their partner sub-flight pilot can be in the right situation.

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I think the Pickup Truck utility extends to something very important, too: Reinforcing the front line. A squad of manned SFS can quickly sortie a number of Mobile Suit teams that may be in suits that don't have the best time in their environment, or need to conserve their own energy for combat that they can't waste getting there. On top of the resupply truck allowing one to fall back, get ammo or energy cels, come back and act as a supply line. The problem is it's also a major target. But if they're looking up, they're not looking at the enemy in front of them.

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I appreciate the advancements that Unicorn introduced for sub-flight systems by effectively removing them in favor of dual-purpose machines that could be carriers and then flip to being combat machines in the ReZEL and Anksha. Saves space in the battleships/carriers/transports too.

Touch Controls: I think Gundam Unicorn showed that communication through hands was a primary way of controling devices. More specifically when the Unicorn was taking a Sleeves gattling gun and had to wait till the drivers installed before he could use it. So it makes sense that a MS could controler a Base Jabber that way.

11:27 that could be referring to traditional Japanese footwear. I know the shorter form of that word; "Geta" means a type of wooden, boarded sandal.

How many Mobile Suits were in the Zeta project? There are of course the Zeta Gundam representing Zeta, the Rick Dias for Gamma, the Double Zeta for Theta, etc. But what about Alpha, Beta, and other skipped letters. Also are suits like the Nu and Xi Gundams also part of the Project, or did they just have coincidental names?

QotW: as a follow up, how about a video of the aircraft of Gundam? and I mean Aircraft, no waveriders or transforming MS From the Earth Federations OYW helping fighters to the Stringbags of Turn A. Bonus points for a Non Transforming Valkyrie Joke : D

This video is well needed. Literally a topic where there is a severe lack of knowledge about

I always figured that the unmanned flight units were just set to go forward and controlled more or less like skateboards or snowboards

I doubt it was beers, but it was undeniably paid for with salaries (or unlisted other income) from the military industrial complex. We've had some crazy military concepts IRL, so this isn't the outlandish thing to me. What are those green abominations with them, though?

I'm currently writing my own Gundam fanfic and your videos are an absolute GODSEND, without them I'd be screwed. Keep up the outstanding work.

Man, you're the only channel that answered some of the questions in the back of my head for a decade now and this are the parts that i love in the UC timeline.

A list of sub-flight systems and what makes one count and not count would be interesting.

Tem Ray: "Okay so I've figured out a system for the Gundam, basically, not only can it do all this cool stuff, it can also house a jet so it can fly around without any delay!" Everyone else after the OYW: "Hehe, Flying platform go schrrrrroow!"

Fuunsaiki is the best support unit. Just accept it.

Gee, if only there was a cheap-to-mass-produce robotic companion to fly a SFS for you instead of a human being liable to get caught in the crossfire. You know, something round and compact with hidden arms to man the controls.

you know, i never knew i needed an answer to this specific question, but the way it's presented makes me feel like a preschooler all over again, in the best way possible. now, if only i can figure out how the Gouf's original heat sword worked *hint hint*

"Don't worry, they were unmanned... I hope" LMAO! That made me laugh much more than it needed to.

Haha, did you add that Wilhelm scream or was that in the original source? Because that's hilarious. 0:50

now, this gets me thinking, since Base Jabbers and Dodai Kais were meant to specifically carry mobile suits, how the heck were the Zeta Gundam and Delta Plus also able to do so. Surely, being mobile suits themselves, they'd either have little to no room to accommodate for any sort of suspension system nor would it be easy to have it work as such, although this may be mitigated in that there would be two pilots involved anyway

I like how in Hathaway flash the base jabbers were litteraly the uc equivalent to the unsc's pelicans...

Always like your style of explaining

I always imagined the handlebars of the SFS were the controls, kind of like a flightstick

“Some Zeon engineers have some few to many beers and have some amazing drunken ideas” *I mean, they did call an aircraft “Fat Uncle”*

nice content. love it . keep it up!!

I have a lot of questions about thesecond century of gundam. And a lot of questionable weapons... But I guess a short answers it could be that they could re-make Gundan F91 and launch Crossbone vanguard finally.

what I really want to know is what kind of speed that the ship used for traveling between planets ... how long it needed to travel to mars or Jupiter from earth at that time

I swear i really needed this video about the sub flights.

Sir, you are a public utility. Type 89 is my favorite Jabber base. One classic. Long Live to Earth Federation.

Call me crazy but I always thought that the Geta was named after the traditiional footwear... hence the MS being about to use it to move about. No, I have no source to verify this. As to the Shackles, that version REALLY looks like something that Mamoru Nagano would have used in L.Gaim (and since he was also a mecha designer for Zeta). [BTW... do love the Five Star Stories mecha from Uncle Mamoru... totes amazing!). Thoughts?

in 08th MS team, there is a scene where they showed Shiro's gundam hand integrate with the beam saber via a chip on the palm. one can assume the same chip techknowlogy is being used on anything with a handle bar for remote control.

Dang, two videos back to back, sweet.

11:39 Imagine if we had 3 of those with cockpits in different colours and they combine into 3 different MS modes and they'll be piloted by the 3 most questionable titans pilots who are menace to society

Interested in your take on combining mechs, Along the lines of say the Thrones and the Archer Arios from 00, or perhaps humanoid ones like the Super Shock from Divers and the Kouten The O from Brave Battle Warriors?

Hmmm... You know another use I saw with SFS was the Doubey and Catsith from G-Reco. As the Catsith was already flight capable but I guess the Doubey carried the Catsiths to give the mobile suits a longer operation time when they arrived forcombat. Also I loved the whole thing where we saw the Catsiths launch from the Doubeys. Instead of jumping off or just stepping off the SFS the Catsiths are launched backwards from the Doubey where their wings are then extended and now able to fly on their own. I guess that is easier, stress-wise, on the Doubeys. Also in G-Reco we have seen the SFS in there saving the pilot of their partner mobile suit a couple of times after they bail out of their machine. The most notable of course being when Mask did it sometime early in the series. Though I am sure there were a couple of other times that happened. Also in G-Reco we got the SFS being used to carry cargo to resupply a ship, mostly seen when we first get introduced to Gusion, Aida's father.

I'm now picturing mobile suits surfing on the Getter Machines.

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Just when i saw the 2 birds meme with Zeta gundam's bgm The timing is good ahahah I like your logic when you said the sensor on the MS hand What instantly came into my mind is the Mega Bazooka Launcher for Hyakushiki While he didnt went ontop of it He still held into it So the logic still stand Edit : Also the place where Hyakushiki put its hand, becoming his foot rest when in aim mode Maybe we can stretch that same technology with the flight system that can be controlled using MS feet (like the yellow one in the video)

There are chameleon logos that come with the HG GM custom and MG GM sniper custom which I've not been able to identify, are these meant to be for the same squadron, and what squads are they for?

Im interested in the Subflight Lifters of Thunderbolt

I 100% agree with the automatic flight course idea. Especially with what happens in unicorn gundam during the garuda transfer. The Unicorn is caught by a base jabber multiple times during that scene.

I think it's possible that the frames get damaged but not outright destroyed if an MS docks too quickly, or is docked overweight. A damaged or bent frame might alter the flight characteristics and prevent immediate reuse after landing for service, but still be sufficient as its current inertia overcomes any instability caused by said damage.

Great video. I just wanted to point out that I think the beam rotors on alot of the BESPA MS are considered sub flight systems even if they are much smaller and more integrated into the MS far better. If you do a follow up video it could be worth mentioning this fact as it's pretty important to those mobile suits' ability to fly when not in mobile armor mode

I love those flight platform things

So basically sub flight system like Base Jabber can be piloted or autopiloted? Now that's make sense for me.

The base jabber has a shock abosrber

This is something that I've been really wondering for a while, how do mobile suits walk? it doesn't seem like there's enough controls for the pilot to manage the legs on a complex scale so it has to be computer based, but how does that computer work if there even is said computer? (talking about U.C. because I know seed uses an O.S.)

I would assume the SFS space units would be piloted by the ms pilots so they can have somewhere to eat, sleep, and refresh on extended missions.

The touch communication would only work in space. It's like if you pressed your space helmet to someone else's. You'd be able to hear each other due to the vibrations. Gundam may be pushing it a little with being able to do it with mobile suits, but the theory is the same.

Would the RX-78 GP-03 Stamen& Dendrobium combination from UC0083 be similar to the sub-flight systems described here?

His small beat at 07:20 was funny (yeah I hope they're unmanned too)

hey quick question for the next one of these, since i don't know to ask here or on your latest video. was there any practical reason for the unicorn series to expose the inner psychoframr or was it purely for the rule of cool?

Would be cool for other sub flight systems like the Corvette Booster or the Guncarry.

In the same vein that they can be used as "Pickup Trucks" They can also be used for just general transportation of suits around. Given that they're significantly faster, at least in atmosphere than a lot of suits, they can be used to transport around suits much more efficiently, particularly when a larger ship to carry them is unavalible or simply considered excessive for the task at hand.

same logic as Green Goblin's glider from Spider-Man, lol.

For the shackles sub flight unit, i like to think of it like a snowboard where shifting the feet controls the unit.

Nice mate..would love if you could add in the kits made available aswell in future.

That semi striker box in the background makes me jealous...

Also a Gouf without a fun looks cursed

Why do agile mobile suits gets armored version? Alex Gundam is design for faster reaction time yet they put armor into it. I know it was for testing or adding defense but does it has to be in an agile MS?

Question of the week request: Could you please clarify how propulsion works in the Universal Century? For spacecraft and mobile suits, my understanding is that they use ion thrusters. The onboard fusion reactor accelerates reaction mass and this results in thrust. We know that this doesn't work well under full gravity; the Gundam is the best mech of its day and it can just about jump, hence the need for subflight systems. Separately, we know that that aircraft can operate successfully in atmosphere and under gravity, from the Core Fighters and Dopps all the way to the Gunperry and Garuda. How do these work, then? It must be a different technology, while at the same time they don't seem to use wings for aerodynamic lift. The base jabbers are flying bricks, for instance. To add to that, I've long been curious about Zeon's underwater propulsion tech. Some sort of magnetohydrodynamic thing, I assume. And lastly, the White Base's jeep, as well as the lunar vehicle used for Dr Minovsky's exfiltration seem to have some sort of... repulsor deal going on? Obviously, it's because "wow, cool mecha" but any creative rationalisations would be appreciated. Thank you!

The only real benefit with subflight that i can think of is to save fuel, this way the mech will have more uptime because on the way to it destination, It use the subflight fuel instead of the mech thus saving the fuel

QOTW: if you could put an already existing mobile suit into a different canon which one would it be and why?

Are g fighters ms joints smoother than magnetic coating? Also are their armour similar to gundarium alloy?

i think later version of SFS like the Dodai also have the function to have a return to base/carrier after the MS jumps off.. or stay in a holding pattern near the suit provided there's a nearby signal to lock on to.. i think episode 14 of Zeta gundam shows the Dodai Kamille was using was flying nearby when he jumped off to grab onto the Gaplant and when he landed back on, the control of the Dodai was done in the same way as the Shackle.

I oftentimes marvel at the change of aesthetics across the UC continuity and think: are people in the fictional universe supposed to notice how much less funky military tech gets between UC 0079 and UC 0087?

Sub-Flight systems are all about adding tactical flexibility to the already powerful mobile suit. In atmosphere it seems to be about deployment speed and range as a secondary. Sure you could toss you MS in a transport aircraft of some sort but then they have to deploy from that aircraft and in that process they're vulnerable and lose flexibility as they're no longer, you know... flying. In space it's almost all about deployment range. By itself a MS has to burn its limited supply of fuel to get where it needs to go reducing the amount it has for combat and the trip home. This added range also gives the possibility of conducting off-axis attacks again adding to tactical flexibility. My personal conclusion is that sub-flight systems are the Gundam equivalent of attaching external fuel tanks to a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and heck it's even better you can slap a gun/missiles on it too or turn it into a bomb itself.

This question never rly came to mine until now but i wonder how decent would a base jabber be if it had a psycommu system that controls it like a funnel, or maybe have psycho frame for it to move around like the unicorn shields

In gundam side Story on ps3 What is cannon on that game and How many G lines were Built-in oyw and after the there are three units in 0083 manga so how many are there. For next week for qotw

Another thing to keep in mind about post OYW stuff is that the use of Minovski particles were massively regulated in both space and nearly banned for use on Earth as it left rather large areas dead zones for a lot of military as well as civilian tech. So in later years the need for touch or hard connections for military hard ware may have shifted from the days when everyone was yeeting Minovski weapons all over the place. It's not so bad in space as they just keep spreading out lessening their affects but on Earth they tend to hang out where they are deployed causing the issues which led to it being banned for use on Earth. ...Insanely realistic actually as after the first use of the Nuke in WW2 the rules for using them became a thing and are so bonkers today it's rather pointless to pursue them as well as all the new ways to counter them. Either way interesting point of discussion.

Question:What make a mobile armor a mobile armor becuase i got a bit cofuse between any of them like in the UC timeline also can you do the other AU timelin as well also do not use my name

I imagine how the Base Jabber can deal with the mass of Mobile Suits is roughly similar to the way the whole Core Block system worked. Having several massive machines that are moving independently from one another be programmed to synchronize their actions to the extent that they can effectively dock into one another and merge into one unit without crashing or breaking horribly is a more complex engineering problem than what the Base Jabber has to deal with.

Good video. can you do one on the sub-flight systems of gundam seed.

Still waiting for a UC timeline vid 😔

I too have a question for you Kakarot, how does a HLV enter earth asmospheare? Fron the wiki it said "The HLV's streamlined shape allows it to survive atmospheric re-entry" so does it have it front position towarad the earth? If so then how does it slow down?

What about the alternate universes?

I mean. Even if they are manned, the crew could always bail or eject depending on airspeed and altitude (in atmosphere) or speed (space use). Or there could be a pod like in 20th century supersonic bombers.

Stupid question but is the METOR system from Gundam seed Destiny a sub flight system or more like a striker pack?

Hmm. The “Touch Communication” you mention, I always went back to the MS Gundam English novels. Which as I recall was vibration transmission across materials against the silence of vacuum. Like two cans connected by a string. About as scientific as Minovsky particles, really. But it sounds believable, right?

So since this the latest Question of the Week video you have on your playlist decided to use it to ask this question. Also kind of fitting to use this video as the main topic of my question carries SFS in battle. So my question is, what happened to the Audhumla after Double Zeta? We never see it again after it managed to help evacuate Dublin. We see the Garuda, herself, in Unicorn but other ships of the class we never see again. Speaking of the Garuda Class in general. I have heard in the past that there was a sort of Garuda Defense Initiative which had a Garuda Class being built for several different aerial defense over Earth. Is this true? Or something someone created in the past outside of official lore. Just a thought I had when writing this comment. That said. Speaking of Karaba we know the damaged Argama was left behind by the AEUG when they went back into space to fight Neo-Zeon, but what happened to it afterwards? Was it repaired and used by th Federation in later conflicts? Or was it just left to rot somewhere. Thanks Kakarot for the wonderful videos. Hope you start doing these videos again soon.

the 'getter' could have been a reference to Getter Robo older mecha anime

You know, now that I'm thinking about it. Do pilots just keep count of kills in their head, or dose their MS somehow count it like a kill streak? Kills 5 mobile suits Your Hud in your cockpit : KILLTACULAR!

The one Mafti uses is my favourite!

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QOTW: If the best grunt suit from each series / universe were to fight each other 1 v 1(E.g. Rezel vs Windam), which one would be strongest 3 and weakest 3? And how far is the difference in strength comparing the weakest best grunt suit vs strongest best grunt suit

My favorite Universal Century Sub-Flight System would have to be the Mega Rider from ZZ Gundam. Not only got a powerful Mega Bazooka Launcher, but also able to function as basically a mobile base of operation for the Gundam Team, in addition to being a support unit for the Gundam MK.II after the loss of the G-Defensor.

Hey kakarot if you had to have a Gundam girls "harem" of 4 girls who would be the other 3?? Mine would be from seed destiny Meyrin and Murrue Ramius and from Gundam 00 Christina Sierra and Anew Returner

I have a question that i havn't really been able to find a good answer too. how large is the human civilization in the UC timeline, theres all these massive ships, but I cant find a map or refrence to where the fartherst colony from earth is? the astroid belt? jupiter? saturn? are we farther than pluto? have we left our home system? Ive been searching for a while, and have I been looking in the wrong place, or missed somthing eniterly? Or is there really no lore that explains any of that?

Why the vid doesn't show sub flight system that used by GM (like the one on thunderbolts)? Not one from same category?

do you think we could see the development history of the gundam age?