When a tiny fighter can take down your flagship, and, in a domino sequence, your primary battle platform, you've got some serious engineering issues.Ī smallish, two-seat atmospheric fighter, the Snowspeeder was first seen at the Battle of Hoth, when Rebel forces used them to provide cover during the planet's evacuation. The 11-mile long ship went out of control, causing it to collide with the Death Star II. This would have come in handy during the Battle of Endor, when a single Rebel A-Wing fighter crashed into the bridge of the Executor. Bigger weapons extended the range of the fleet, and allow the fleet to give individual ships some breathing room. Imagine if, when navies built battleships, larger ships still mounted the same guns as destroyers and cruisers. The whole point of building a larger ship is to put larger weapons on it.
The question is: Why bother to build the Super Star Destroyer at all? Although much, much larger than the average Star Destroyer, it doesn't have larger, more powerful weapons. The first of the class, Executor, was Darth Vader's flagship. He would be unable see other TIE fighters flying abreast of him, or even in a staggered formation-unless he had a Distributed Aperture System helmet, too.Īn enormous starship the length of sixty US Navy supercarriers, the Super Star Destroyer was an improvement on the standard Star Destroyer.
The poor TIE fighter pilot on the other hand has two large panels on both sides of him, preventing him from seeing anything more than perhaps a 50 degree cone in front of him. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has poor visibility, but the Distributed Aperture System helmet is expected to help the pilot "see" 360 degrees. The F-16 Viper has excellent visibility, thanks to a bubble canopy with the pilot in the center.
This is a large vertical surface area that seemingly serves no purpose-except to be a large aiming point for Rebel Alliance fighters.Īnother problem with the panels is they restrict pilot visibility. The biggest drawback of the TIE fighter are the flat panels on both sides that make it look like an eyeball suspended between two playing cards.
The Twin Ion Engine (TIE) fighter has two such engines-somewhere-and like a World War II Stuka attack plane makes a menacing screeching noise as it passes by. Mainstay of the Galactic Empire's fighter force, the TIE fighter is a pretty menacing aircraft.
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