>>6127838>Hence the crazy amount of thrusters and fuel tanksIn the manga at least, that's just what the designs for all of them are like, not just the ones in the thunderbolt sector. The MS guarding and attacking A Baoa Qu are like that too and the zaku II used for operation british as well. We'll have to see how the OVAs for the second arc handle the designs, but in the earth arc a lot of the stuff still has things like joint covers at least.
