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Originally Posted by Tak
Now see, that ain't fair. We know Zent weapons have beyond-lifetime warranty and infinite guarantee, that and human technology never quite caught up to their level.
- Tak
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Well, when you have automated factories that churn out war materiel that's good enough that the Supervision Army would dedicate itself to hunting down some of them...
Anyone else think that Klein Klan sounded almost like a saleswoman there? "They never, EVER break down!" is a nice way to pitch a weapon.
As for the uniformity of fighters across fleets, we know that the companies in question were (at least originally) based on Earth, and the spacefold technology makes it so that you could make deliveries of such technology, or at least the templates for the automated factories, fairly feasable as long as you keep in regular contact with Earth (which they do, as far as we can tell) and Eden. Beyond that, it comes down to a matter of the budgets that the fleets have for their branches of the UN Spacy/NUNS as well as the level of training and logistics they can support. Frontier's fleet seems to have been spoiled by peacetime, while Macross 7's fleet (given they had Max and Milia Jenius along as commander and mayor) seems to have kept up training pretty well.
That, and this way the NUNS provides the 'grunts' who get blown out of the sky to make our heroes in SMS look good...