That's because it basically was. Mobile suits really hadn't been used a ton up until that point and the feds had literally zero counter to them. Plus at that point in time all those zakus were equipped specifically to take out ships

@@beefbigshot8789 Going by current cannon the federation had also elected to upgrade their entire fleet to use Megaparticle Cannons (the beam weapons) mobile suits like the early iteration of the Guncannon and Guntank were meant as purely support weapons, and the general thinking amongst the federation higher-ups was they'd win in a ship to ship engagement. They didn't consider it possible for anyone to actually put forces on Earth or to realistically threaten their military headquarters and thus CiC for the general armed forces. The elites on earth also didn't give a rip either they poured money into the pockets of those in power in the federation and used the general armed forces as thugs to suppress any riotous or rebellious activity on the colonies and the moon. So when the Zabis seized power it allowed Ghiren to tap into that cult of personality that people were so desperate for in the wake of Zeon Deikun's assassination. From the few scenes we get in Gundam the Origin Zeon Deikun seems to of been unhinged regardless and at least from the Wiki with his assassination and Casval understanding who was responsible for his father's death dropped the mask of pretending to care as seen when he gets the real Char Aznable killed by swapping places with him. Long way of saying it was the exact fact that no one really cared that lead to the One Year War and the destruction of so much an unfortunate reality that permeated well into the future of the Universal Century.

@@Jadefox32 That part of there being an identical twin I always found to be jarring.

Speedrunning IRL lol

He didn't use the explosions. He used his zaku to kick off the hulls of the federation ships to save fuel and keep up his speed. But it does look cool either way.

Well one thing that you have to keep in mind is, both sides are using nuclear-powered rocket engines that render radar, microwaves, and electrical circuitry useless. This means that the Federal and Zeon fleets have to use traditional forms of navigation and communication to fight in the battle of Loum. Thereby this necessitates that they both fight a naval battle in a more traditional manner since they can't use radar-guided missiles effectively, which is why they resort to using big guns.

And then being found by salvagers and brainwashed into their cult.

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Because WW2 battleship style broadside is cool

@@user-uv5ld3cx5t man's got a point, rule of cool

because they did not whant to get to close to the main line of the federation they whanted to maintain range to make the grater use of minofki saturation pining down the federation fleet for the zaku atack

@@anuvisraa5786 Newtonian physics, you burn in the direction you want go, then turn the ships. They'll continue in the direction of the burn regardless of the their facing.

@@SPatrickRoss yea but in the video is more like they turn and make a line

asteroids son

@@RodrigoSanchez-hw5tf yep. There’s a reason earth has 2 moons plus axis, a baoa Qu, pezun and god knows how many others around

It’s this magical thing called “factories”. And you know nothing of their economy or population. Which is quite convenient for writers.

Editing software. When i was making the video i forgot to rewatch before uplouding on yt so it was my mistake. But dont know why it had low fps In short check your work

@@CLANKERt_ Just blame it on the Minovsky particles dude!

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Gundam is a WW2 allegory. So the answer is yes.

yep, they can't really do justice to modern combat capabilities, because it directly denies Mobile Suits. Modern anti-air doctrine is ruled by a number of high speed long range missiles, with extremely high accuracy, even under high ecm and eccm clouds, which the Minovsky particle is said to make worse. The idea of the minovsky particle cloud is to deny the deployment of massed anti-aircraft missile systems, so that the more interesting close-range combat that Mobile Suits are known for is made possible.

Yes. This anime itself is about unsung heroes in a losing war. They can’t win even if each person is good or the technology is great for a moment. Now Japanese are real pacifists, always making ourselves busy with good anime or cars… we do not want to re-awake intense emotions deep down, nor remember what we are capable of once we get really raged, in order not to perish both sides. Thus, can depict great imperfect heroes, fancy but lonesome characters and subtle love very well.

Its actualy those zaku is safer because in space battle its speed acceleration and manuverability and small size make zaku nighmare for those federation ship that use big gun doctrine just like how japanese is fucked up by US

Minosky particles comrade. It's because the cold fusion reactors of warships, fighters, mobile weapons, and other space vehicles that render radar and electrical circuitry useless in battle. Thus making mobile suits undetectable to Federation warships and fighters. As such, that is why the Federation warships have to use bullets with built-in flairs to adjust their aim (yet their efforts are rather futile since MS moves in 3 dimensions).

I'd recommend looking up gun camera footage from WW2, specifically attack runs on battleships.

That sort of thing gets me excited.

どちらかと言うとミッドウェーじゃないかな。この時ティアンム艦隊とレビル艦隊との距離は大きく離れてた(ミッドウェーでも空母艦隊と主力との距離が大きく空いていた)し油断してるレビル本隊にMSが奇襲しかけて大将ノレビル捕縛で勝利してる(ミッドウェーでも距離の離れた空母艦隊がアメリカの航空部隊の奇襲で大半が失われてる)

宇宙艦隊戦ではジオン MSでは初期はジオンだけど末期はどっこいどっこい 歩兵とか戦闘機みたいな通常兵器や海上艦隊戦では連邦

ay still cool though

It's because in the Universal Century, spaceships use nuclear power. And nuclear power cancels out electronic devices, which renders radar, electrical circuitry, and microwaves useless. So this means that spaceships have to use very old-fashioned navigation systems without radar or sonar. Also, this means that Mobile Suits are undetectible, which is why anti-aircraft fire is using built-in flairs in the bullets to try to down MS.

Solar Ray weapons only work on stationary targets though.

No. They were always going to lose. The population, resource, industrial, and economic difference was so extreme that Zeon never stood a chance from the start. In the absolute best-case scenario for Zeon, the federation would lose its coordination from “defeat” but otherwise would continue fighting and actually controlling federation territory to try to suppress this endless and massive guerilla campaign would be impossible for such a small faction. Quickly grinding Zeon’s military power to nothing while the Federation reconnected and grew stronger.

It's cause they don't have radar, they have to use traditional means of fleet formation. Also, the lack of radar is due to nuclear waste given off by space warship and mobile suit rocket engines.

Loum is located between the earth and the moon. So basically, Zeon is attacking this colony cluster as it's on their doorstep.

@@CosmoShidan How many large colonies can they fit in 300,000 miles?. That does not even include the large size fleets in these battles.

@@Wolfen443 Side 5 has around 40 colonies. The same goes for all 6 colony clusters which are called sides. So that makes around 240 colonies per side. Not to mention that there are 1 billion people per side, which the 20-miles long, 4-miles wide O'Neill space habitats have the capability to carry that many people.

@@CosmoShidan That sounds a little too extensive to me even for a plot for anime back in the day.

Its honestly a very Japanese culture thing; even old woodblock pictures depicted characters doing this too, so the idea of "dramatic-posing-before-attacking" existed since at least the 1600s, back when daimyo would think of themselves as demigods and all that. In modern Japanese culture, it was probably popularised by Super Robot and Tokusatsu stuff. Kamen Rider and Ultraman for example, are stuffed full of overdramatic posing since their beginnings.

@@percival086 interesting, thanks for the info, it's still weird but it's from Japanese culture so I can't argue with that

At least it's not as bad as the origin

a main cannon that can fire only one time every 3 hours would be a terrible design and would make no sense in a world were a mobile suit has the same firepower and can fire multiple shots in a row

I can't find any evidence of this, even on the old gundamofficial website on archive.

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It doesnt, it has multiple cannons on the port and starboard on the both end of the ship. But I think they are only for firing on the targets in front and in the rear.

@@veyolaski4324 Pretty sure the Salamis was meant to be used for pirate hunting and the like, weapon placement makes it look like it was designed for pursuit fighting and running fights, not broadside engagements. This is also why I prefer the Origins version of this fight since this fleet was headed by Some of the federations best naval commanders and would have not used the salamis class so poorly. Origins show the salamis performing far better when used like it was designed, specifically the Tianem fleet engaging the Zeon fleet right before the Zeon Trap at loum was sprung.

@@sternguard8283 I would say that the gun place designs were meant to distinguish the class of warships. E.g., the Salamis is a space cruiser, Megellan is a space battleship, and the Columbus is a space carrier. Plus, I tend to dismiss the Origin, as the Federation Salamis performing poorly makes sense, because the Federation military wasn't taking the threat of MS seriously.

アニメなので深く考えるのやめた方がいいよ。単なる"演出"だからね

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これツッコミいれてくれる同志がなかなかいなかったから安心した。

Actually it makes sense if you think about it from a psychological perspective. If space battles were all over the place, each side would be panicking all the time

人間が宇宙空間の環境に追いつけてないってことじゃないか？

nah its green but clearly a federation design

It's a Magellan class battleship of the federation forces the color is just green so it kinda looks like a musai xD

MS Igloo, it's a pretentious OVA that isn't worth your time. Watch it if you like uncanny valley

@@jessepatten6502 I thought it was decent. The animation at times could've been a bit better but it was ok.

ヨルムンガンドです(*｀･ω･)ゞ

@@jessepatten6502 how is it pretentious? It's a collection of shorts for a museum exhibition