Japan’s Ministry of Defense Working "Towards the Realization of Gundam"

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In a recent symposium held by Japan’s Ministry of Defense a conference took place and caused great controversy. Titled “Towards The Realization Of Gundam“, it sparked a lot of discussion on the feasibility of an actual program to develop a Gundam as a defense system, however the expo dealt more with the development of technology which are used in Gundams but for developed for other purposes, such as a functional exoskeleton and better armor materials.

While the prospect of fighting with giant robots in space seems pretty damn awesome, warfare isnt so much about things hitting other things as it is more about building things that can efficiently throw things (usually explosive) at other things. Too many things and not enough giant robots says this humble writer.

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  • 10 Comments

    1. Kikimaru
      November 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 am

      In real warfare, the first Gundams would get destroyed like grunts by proven warmachines.

      Unless they have a psycommu system…

    2. Lopson
      November 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am

      Unless they’re trying to create an EVA unit…

    3. November 3rd, 2007 at 11:02 pm

      But then the main component would be to have some angel DNA lying around, seems unlikely and still, power cords would ruin an eva in war. Now, building Lagann.. that’d be awesome.

    4. Khaim
      November 4th, 2007 at 7:31 am

      The picture Nahu posted has been in the ‘Net for ages :p first time i saw it was around 2001-2002 or something (correct me if i’m wrong)

      As for real-life mecha, the ones from Gasaraki still seem like the only reasonably real… or at least usable in real life.

    5. Link
      November 5th, 2007 at 7:40 am

      Do I smell a black megadeus?

    6. animemecha
      November 5th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

      They could have just put that money into something else

      Like the current energy crisis

    7. November 7th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

      Thats not how japan rolls. Who would deny energy for Japan once they have a freaking giant robot? (asuming they make it a viable weapon).

    8. Link
      November 7th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

      Did they have nukes in Gundam?

    9. Caius
      November 10th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

      A mech of the scale in Gundam is unlikely, but with only a small defense force medium-sized mecha (topping out at let’s say half the height of the picture) can certainly be combat effective at anti-tank and perhaps ground-to-air. Japan has the resources to be the first to publicly develop combat mecha and it is a bit frightening. They had better not fly though.

    10. ncgc genrave
      August 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

      well, i saw a article about a power supply for a medium size one was about 7 diesel engines i think, and was about 729 million yen, i think. the brain would have been i ibm super computer, i cant remember the rest.


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