The helicopter which delivers Ellie and Unit 0 to track down Kouji has the name "Rodger Young" stenciled across it. This is a reference to the troop transport Rodger Young in Robert Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers", widely considered to be the definitive work on powered combat armor. (The movie Starship Troopers (1997) also features the Rodger Young, but Madox 01 predates that film by a decade.)
There are two English dubs of Metal Skin Panic Madox-01: An Animeigo dub and a Manga UK dub.
This and Riding Bean were AnimEigo's first anime releases.
At 6m34 seconds in one of the characters examines a box containing the titular mecha unit. Written in English, it reads as follows: "US.ARMY MARINES
OKAWASAKI HEAVY IND CO.LTD
1. Walt Disney production: Steven Lisberser, Director "The design work for this for this feature started with the Aircrafts
2. For this sequel to the famous "2001" I designed the exterior of the Russian space ship Leonov. For the interior,
3. Originally, working personally with Ridley Scott, I was