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Date Posted: 09:02:22 10/25/02 Fri
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In an earlier debate, I was discussing the various capabilities of fighters in SW. I just had a look at the SW website, and a few points of interest were found. Here are some of them (some are good for the SW side, and some are bad). :)
First X-Wing quotes.
"There is enough oxygen, fuel and power in an X-wing for a week of non-combat operations. Additional consumable tanks can be affixed to the S-foils at a cost of performance."
Interesting and impressive. This would actually make them comperable to shuttles and runabouts for mission duration, though I suspect that a runabout would be much more comfortable! :)
"In an atmosphere, the X-wing's Incom RDA repulsorlift drive adaptor provides an airspeed of 1,050 kilometers per hour. The fighter handles nearly identical to a T-16 skyhopper in an atmosphere. The New Republic-era fighter can attain speeds of at least 1,300 kilometers per hour."
Gives us a set speed of repulsorlift movement in atmospheres.
"The array feeds information through a shielded multiplexer relay to the ANq 3.6 sensor computer. The unit can track up to 1,000 moving sublight objects, acquire 20 possible targets, and can be programmed for extra sensitivity to 120 specific sensor signatures. At the very rear of the craft is a Fabritech k-blakan mini sensor providing the pilot a view of the ship's rear arc. One of the X-wing's primary weaknesses is a blind spot at the rear of its belly."
According to this, an X-Wing can only track sublight objects, and has a sensor blindspot to the rear. However, it can track an impressive number of targets.
"A Bertriak "Screamer" active jammer is the standard sensor jammer employed by X-wing fighters. The Screamer isn't powerful enough to jam capital-scale sensor systems, but it can interfere with homing warheads and jam starfighter sensors."
The jammer is not powerful to jam large SW ships, so it would be questionable whether it could jam large ST ships.
"Four identical Taim & Bak KX9 laser cannons are mounted on each S-foil wingtip. During combat situations, the S-foils split into attack position, deploying in an "X" configuration. This increases the fighter's field of fire, and ensures that all lasers target in to a specific "zero" point, typically half a kilometer from the fighter."
Attack range of the fighter (for lasers) is generally no more than 1/2km, or 500 meters! That is very short range!
"Some X-wings were equipped with decoy and carbon-fiber chaff mines that could be fired in dogfight situations. The decoys would broadcast a sensor signature similar to the X-wing, confusing enemy scanners. The carbon-fiber chaff mines would create dangerous clouds of sensor-opaque debris that could damage pursuing vehicles or prematurely detonate incoming warheads."
Might be a useful feature, though I suspect only really useful against other starfighters. Also it is not a standard weapons fit.
"This supplements the hardened titanium armor alloy of the X-wing. The expensive and high-strength alloy sedrellium is used to reinforce the X-wing's hull."
Much of the X-Wing is made of hardened Titanium. Whilst Titanium is pretty strong, it's not an exotic super dense armor.
"The new model featured an advanced computer system that integrated all the functions of the supplemental astromech droid into one package. As such, the T-65D-A1 needed no astromech socket, and did not sport one."
New X-Wings don't have R2 units. Saves wieght.
"The introduction of the T-65D-A1, unfortunately, was exploited by would-be terrorists. Each new computer system retrofitted into an older X-wing, or that came standard with a newer model, was equipped with a hidden explosive detonator. This insidious sabotage was set to go off when a specific combination of computer commands was executed. This act grounded the New Republic X-wing arsenal for a time, and seriously hampered the success of the T-65D-A1 refit."
The NR didn't notice someone building explosives into their fighters????? Doesn't speak much for NR security or maintainence procedures. In real life, the combined ground crew know every inch of the aircraft, is this not the case for NR groundcrew?
Now standard TIE quotes.
"TIE fighter units are typically organized into wings -- a grouping of 72 fighters carried aboard a Star Destroyer. These wings are subdivided into six squadrons of 12 fighters each.One of these squadrons is typically made up of TIE interceptors while another consists of TIE bombers."
This is good. We now know that an ISD carries 12 TIE bombers, 12 TIE advanced and 48 standard TIEs.
Now TIE Advanced quotes.
"During the Galactic Civil War, the TIE interceptor was introduced to TIE wings, with a single squadron of 12 interceptors standard on most Star Destroyers."
Generally only one squadron per ISD.
"Although rarer fighter models exist with greater performance -- such as the TIE defender -- the TIE interceptor represents the pinnacle of the TIE series."
The TIE advanced is the better generally available Imperial fighter.
"During the time of Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign, several TIE interceptors were seen to carry shield generators, indicating their importance to the struggling Imperial effort."
Some Advanced TIEs may have shields.
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