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#35 The Truth Of Seven Years Ago (Plus)
Isamu Dyson, who rushed to Earth to shoot back at the Ghost X-9, and Guld Goa Bowman, who pursued him, open up in an intense dog fight. In the middle of the fight, the memories from 7 years ago, that Guld had sealed away in his mind, are awakened.

2040; Sector in the neighbourhood of Earth
Isamu Forces A Descent To The Earth
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2040; Earth Macross City
Sharon Attempts To Eliminate Myung
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2040; Earth Macross City
Sharon Puts The Spectators Under Control
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2040:
The YF-19 defolds in the sector in the neighbourhood of Earth.* Isamu forces a descent to the Earth.

* Translator's note: originally was: "The YF-19 space folds to the sector ~."

2040:
Sharon attempts to eliminate Myung.

2040:
Sharon takes control of people's spirits by mind control, and seizes Macross City.

Related Matter: The Earth Absolute Defence Sphere
At the time of the First Interstellar War, the trump card of the Unified Forces, who designed the Earth's defences, was the "Grand Cannon" wide-area attack weapon, which was installed in the surface of the earth. However, there were limits to a bombardment from the Earth's surface on the Zentraadi Forces - who defolded in satellite orbit and inflicted a bombardment with an innumerable number of ship guns, and cornered the Earth even before devastating it. In order to make the best use of that battle lesson, after the war the reorganized Unified Forces advanced a new defensive strategy that was rich with operability and flexibility. The "Earth Absolute Defence Sphere" was constructed as a part of that new strategy. This defensive network uses the Defence Fleet and Automatic Defence Satellites that are in satellite orbit as its core. And even though its instantaneous offensive capabilities are inferior to that of the Grand Cannon, the network has the advantage of being able to correspond to various situations with each combat element by making good use of their nimble manoeuvrability. The network functioned as the cornerstone of the Earth's defence in the 2040's.

Caption: A conceptual diagram that shows the deployment of the combat capabilities of the Earth Absolute Defence Sphere. One can understand from this diagram the build up of a strong defence network that covers the entire globe.

Caption: In the defence fleet, in addition to the conventional ARMD class, one can catch sight of the forms of such vessels as Uraga class isomorphs and the ships that accompanied the Emigrant Fleets in the 2040's.

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2040; Outskirts Of Earth's Macross City
Isamu And Guld Dare To Dogfight
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2040; Outskirts Of Earth's Macross City
Guld Recalls Memories From 7 Years Ago
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2040; Outskirts Of Earth's Macross City
Isamu And Guld Reconcile
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2040:
Guld detects Isamu.
Isamu and Guld dare to dogfight.

2040:
Guld recalls memories from 7 years ago.

2040:
Isamu and Guld reconcile.

Related Matter: The Hand-To-Hand Combat Of Fighter Aircraft
Air-to-air missiles, which were implemented in the 1950's to 60's, brought forth new operational ideas for fighter aircraft. Combat was concluded by shooting down enemy planes with long-range missiles, and it was thought that fighter aircraft were the means to transport missiles. For that reason, machine-guns for close combat were treated as unnecessary, and the manoeuvrability of the fighters was also restrained to the necessary minimum. However, in the Vietnam War that intensified in latter half of the 60's, situations occurred where state-of-the-art aircraft that specialized in missile combat were having hard fights with older generation aircraft. The influence of that was felt, and it was acknowledged that hand-to-hand fighting abilities are also necessary in fighter aircraft; and they came to be equipped with missiles and machine-guns in parallel. VFs also inherited this ideology, and the VFs were designed and developed as aircraft that demonstrate excellent manoeuvrability and can even sufficiently cope with close hand-to-hand combat.

Caption: The VF-0, the earliest VF, also coped with hand-to-hand combat, and took up close combat with the SV-51.

Caption: One is able to say that the installation of the YF-19's defensive laser gun on the top of the fuselage is the result of aiming at enhancing the rear defensive capabilities of VFs during dogfights.

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