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Date Posted: 16:11:12 10/26/02 Sat
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In reply to:
Warspite
's message, "SW Fighter points." on 09:02:22 10/25/02 Fri
>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.
You ever wonder why sometimes you never get a reply because all this sounds dorky enough to not get a reply?
You put way to much thought behind something that isn't real.
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