Quote Originally Posted by MV75
It's actually the bandai toy that was licensed to hasbro back in the day, so yea, it IS a valkerie.
Well... yes and no. Remember that back then all Transformers were toys adapted from other robot lines as Transformers (Macross, Dorvack, Microman, Diaclone, Beet Gadol, Mechabot-1 etc.). Is Jetfire a Valkyrie? Technically no, he is an Autobot Transformer, which is an entirely different concept from a Macross Valkyrie. Jetfire is no more of a VF-1S Valkyrie than say Optimus Prime is a Car Robot Battle Convoy or Roadbuster is a VV-54 AR Mugen Calibre or Megatron is a MC12 Gun Robo. :/

Toywise they're nearly the same (only cosmetic differences) but conceptually they're nothing alike. Valkyries are not living self-aware sentient robots!