Starship Troopers should have been a serious full lenth episodic scifi anime like Legend of Galactic Heroes or Space Battleship Yamato if one wanted to cover the full length of Rico career from start to finish instead of being a butchered movie adaptation by a bunch of Hollywood politically corrected asshats who don't even bother reading the book and think its fascist propaganda just because of its political and militarism theme or because they watched that 1997 parody of a film by Verhoeven.
While i hate Japanese nationalist wank in their military mecha stuff at times, at least a Japanese anime studio with actual commitment would have make SST a more faithful adaptation. The book itself is simply just too long to cover the whole journey of Rico in one film from a boy to a man, and the episodic nature of an average weekly anime is more than enough to cover the whole interpersonal journey of a soldier perspective of an interstellar conflict.
People who think wings dont belong on a spacecraft just for the excuse of “muh realism” are idiots, Spaceplane is a thing and the concept had persisted a lot longer than you would have expected, it was one of the very first form of spacecraft to be drawn up even before pure-space based spacecrafts with only rocket thrusters did. Hell, go look up the Sanger Silbervogel sub-orbital bomber, that thing is one of the very first spacecraft design ever conceived, even though later on they knew it had flaws, its still fundamentally important to the developments of spacecrafts.
And no you cannot use the fucking Babylon 5 Starfury as an example for a realistic space fighter, that thing is a good space fighter but a complete turd in atmospheric condition, It really pissed me off that many think B5 Starfury is a legitimately best space fighter design ever just because it was designed with NASA help.
Granted, wings are useless in space, but if your designs are meant for multi-environment conditions, then wings and surface controls are definitely required. For a hybrid craft that had ground attack capability for supporting planetary invasions then having wings and surface controls is a must. Designing a space-only fighter pretty much means the whole thing is gonna be a lawn dart in atmosphere and completely unflyable for any tasks that isn't related to spaceflight, for examples like low-level bombing or counter-insurgency task.
Its for these same reasons why I generally prefer spaceplane designs in Scifi, things like the Longsword from Halo games or the F-302 from Stargate, even to less realistic designs like the Cosmo Tiger II from Space Battleship Yamato series, those are really good hybrid space fighters for multi-environmental combat, i mean if you look at current spaceplane concepts, they aren't that far off.