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[[File:MZ Edgar.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Edgar fast asleep next to his CTAR-21. He is also resting near the leg unit of the VF-0D fighter mecha.]]
[[File:MZ Edgar.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Edgar fast asleep next to his CTAR-21. He is also resting near the leg unit of the VF-0D fighter mecha.]]
[[File:MZ Tavor FPS.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Edgar's first person view while wielding the CTAR-21 to confront "intruders".]]
[[File:MZ Tavor FPS.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Edgar's first person view while wielding the CTAR-21 to confront "intruders".]]
[[File:MZ goof.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shin acting like a goof while "riding" his CTAR-21. The buttstock is extended out. The rocks with spiral markings lying in the pond are actually alien artifacts able to react to some sound frequencies.]]
[[File:MZ goof.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shin acting like a goof while "riding" his CTAR-21 (with its buttstock extended out). The rocks with spiral markings lying in the pond are actually alien artifacts able to react to some sound frequencies.]]
Macross Zero (マクロス ゼロ Makurosu Zero) is an anime prequel OVA to The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) - a classic and famous mecha series notable because it was actually used in the west as the first part of the American Robotech TV anime from 1985. Macross Zero was released for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Macross franchise during 2002 in Japan. It was created and directed by Shoji Kawamori (original creator of Macross) and produced by Satelight.
Macross Zero is set in an alternate history 2008 A.D., one year before the events of the original Macross TV series, depicting the final battles of the "U.N. Wars" between the U.N. Spacy (a fictional global armed organization derived from the UN) and the Anti-UN forces (an anti unification militia opposed to the UN worldwide goverment), and is also set in the South Pacific, where a gigantic alien spaceship crash landed 9 years earlier (the 1999 event that prompted the creation of a UN derived united world government).
Amidst the violence, a U.N. Spacy F-14 KAI pilot named Shin Kudo is attacked by a strange enemy aircraft that can transform itself into a robot (a variable fighter mecha, also called veritech in the Robotech adaptation). Crash landing on Mayan Island Shin learns that this remote island and its peaceful native inhabitants hold a great secret linking them to the alien space ship and would become the focus of the war, whether they like it or not. Shin eventually returns to his carrier fleet and joins Roy Fokker's 'Skull Squadron', who also operate brand new transforming fighters, the U.N. Spacy VF-0 Phoenix. He trains and engages Anti-UN forces operating from a converted ballistic missile submarine as both sides fight to locate and control alien artifacts, with the peaceful and agrarian Mayan caught in the middle of the war.
The following weapons were used in the OVA Macross Zero:
Anti-UN fighters use rifles that are a mix of various AK variants as their main weapon, first seen in "Jungle". While they have the characteristics of an AKS-74U (or an AKMSU), their barrels appear to be based from the AK-47.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingAKS-74U (also referred to as the "AKSU" or 'Krinkov') - 5.45x39mm.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFinal Production version of the Type III AK-47 with cleaning rod removed and laminated stock - 7.62x39mm.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnti-UN fighters fire their AK rifles at a retreating Shin and Sara.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnti-UN fighter fires his AK rifle. Note the straight magazine. The greenish rock with a spiral marking floating above Nora is a fragment of the rock "birdman", a floating alien artifact destroyed by the anti-UN militia.
AK-74
AK-74s are used by anti-UN fighters in "The Stars on the Earth" when Shin's family is assassinated.
Anti-UN soldiers inside the Auerstädt use the AK-102 as their main assault rifle in "Birdman".
Error creating thumbnail: File missingAK-102 carbine - 5.56x45mm.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnti-UN soldiers aim their AK-102s at Mayan priestess Sara Nome and U.N. Spacy scientist Aries Turner. The missile-like machines in the background are actually several Sukhoi/Israel-Aircraft-Industries/Dornier SV-51 Alpha Anti-UN variable fighter mecha in fighter mode ready for launch.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAn anti-UN soldier aims his AK-102 at Sara. Behind her is the captured 'Birdhuman' alien artifact (code named AFOS - Artifact from Outer Space). The Birdhuman turns out to be a very powerful and destructive extraterrestrial WMD and semi-sentient bio-mechanoid in the end.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA good closeup of the AK-102.
Colt M16A2
US Army soldiers with Colt M16A2s appear in Shin Kudo's flashback in "The Ocean, The Wind and...".
UN Marines are armed with GIAT FAMAS G2s as their main assault rifle. The creators of Macross Zero probably chose this design since the FAMAS F1 was the UN Spacy main assault rifle in the first Macross (Robotech) series from 1982.
Shin and Edgar are armed with IMI CTAR-21s as their main assault rifle, first seen in "The Stars on the Earth".
Error creating thumbnail: File missingIMI Tavor CTAR-21 with ITL MARS red dot sight - 5.56x45mmError creating thumbnail: File missingShin sleeping in a makeshift hammock, cradling his CTAR-21. You can see the ITL MARS sight mounted on the upper receiver. He rests under his parked two-seat variant VF-0D fighter mecha while in 'GERWALK' mode.Error creating thumbnail: File missingEdgar fast asleep next to his CTAR-21. He is also resting near the leg unit of the VF-0D fighter mecha.Error creating thumbnail: File missingEdgar's first person view while wielding the CTAR-21 to confront "intruders".Error creating thumbnail: File missingShin acting like a goof while "riding" his CTAR-21 (with its buttstock extended out). The rocks with spiral markings lying in the pond are actually alien artifacts able to react to some sound frequencies.
Sniper Rifles
Barrett M82A1
A Barrett M82A1 is used by an anti-UN fighter in "Jungle". Ruthless anti-UN variable fighter mecha ace pilot Nora Polyansky also uses it to shoot down a rock 'Birdman' (a floating alien artifact) in the same episode, having a AN/PVS-4 night vision scope.
A Browning M2HB is seen used by UN Army Abrams MBTs in a flashback when Shin Kudo narrates about how the UN Wars started in "The Ocean, The Wind and...".
M61 Vulcans are used by UN Air Force F-14A Kai fighters as its main machine gun. They are also inside Phalanxes, serving as machine guns for the UN Navy's Asuka II and Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
The F-14A Kai fighters are in-universe F-14 fighters upgraded with advanced and sophisticated avionics derived from research on the gigantic crashed alien space craft that arrived on Earth in 1999. This extraterrestrial technology is called Overtechnology in the original Macross (and Robotechnology in the original Robotech American adaptation).
In a flashback in in "The Ocean, The Wind and...", a giant widescreen in Japan shows a news report with a Bell AH-1 SuperCobra armed with a M197 Vulcan.
The M240 machine gun is used by UN Army Abrams MBTs as secondary weapons in "The Ocean, The Wind and...". They consist of a M240C mounted coaxially next to the main gun and an M240D mounted at the Loader's hatch fitted with a gun shield. It's also seen in a flashback in the hands of a US Army soldier.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe cover features the Northrop-Grumman/Stonewell/Shinsei VF-0S Phoenix variable fighter mecha in Roy Fokker 'Jolly Roger' colors. The transforming aircraft is armed with a double barreled 'Mauler' laser cannon (mounted on the head turret that is placed in the belly of the mecha in fighter mode) and a 'Howard' GPU-9 three-barrel 35mm gatling gun pod featuring adjustable rate-of-fire for 60/1, 250/2, 500 rounds-per-minute, driven by a 90-horsepower electric motor, muzzle velocity 1,100 m/s (550 rounds total, capable of utilizing heavy armor-piercing or AHEAD ammunition).
