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Originally Posted by Tak
If you are referring to the shoulder piece, that would be their support weapon. In terms of short-ranged firepower, the Queads still out-gun their Valkyrie counterparts with their twin blasters. Nene made the mistake of trying to out-run a Valkyrie, that is why she got shot down. Instead, Quran decided to put up a fight face-to-face as that is what Queads were designed to do, and do very well at!
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I'm referring more to the missiles - with over a hundred of the suckers, they'd represent the greater majority of a Queadluun-Rea's firepower, and this is especially true at dogfighting ranges. It remains to be seen exactly how the shoulder cannon is employed and how effective it is in dogfights.
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Originally Posted by Wesley84
Going by Mahq.net, there's been a dramatic leap in performance for Valks since the VF-1, even if the weapons haven't changed much. The difference between the VF-25 and the Queads wasn't particularly pronounced, even accounting for the pilots. Going by the stats on the site, a VF-01 would have had roughly a tenth of the ability a VF-25 has, with the difference not being as exaggerated at low elevations while in an atmosphere.
The conclusion I've reached is that all the times Queads fought VF-01s it was below 30,000 meters, while in space VF-01s would have absolutely gotten slaughtered.
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You're largely correct. Most of the fighting between the Queadluun-Raus and SDF-1 were at lower altitudes. Moreover, it's important to note that VF-1s are aerodynamic in both their gerwalk and fighter forms whereas the powered armor is decidedly not. The last thing to take into account is that Zentradi attacks don't engage Valkyries to the exclusion of other battlefield foes. They had to contend with both numerous Destroids and SDF-1's defensive batteries as well. There were also times when VF-1s really did get slaughtered.