As a kid in the 80's I saw a show much like Voltron, but I'm sure it was with puppets. There were 3 pilots of 3 sections of a robot; head, torso, legs which were launched from a starship as fighters to battle antlike aliens. The pilot of the head was named Shiloh, of the others one had a 'fro and wore army camo and the other was a bit fat [I think]. Anyway does anyone have any idea what this was?? Random Google searches just aren't working.

You are thinking of star fleet try here

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1011/

You'll find it listed on the left hand side of the screen near the bottom

Hope this helped:D

Moorigan is right, it's called star fleet, used to watch that all the time