![]() As such, they lacked hyperdrives, deflector shields, or even life support systems, reducing their mass and giving them great speed and maneuverability, but also limiting their survivability and their range. Seen as complements to Star Destroyers, they served as escorts, scouts, hit-and-fade raiders, and bombers supporting ground troops. The TIE/LN Line Starfighter and the TIE/SA Bomber were barebones fighter designs built around a ball-shaped cockpit and Raith Sienar's revolutionary twin ion engine design. The Empire instead focused on the creation of a new generation of space superiority fighters, culminating in Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE Series of starfighters. Consequently, the Empire turned away from snubfighter development, seeing it as a distasteful legacy of the great swarms of Vulture droid starfighters deployed by the Confederate Navy during the Clone Wars. Unlike the Republic Navy, the Imperial Navy's doctrine focused on capital ship firepower rather than starfighter superiority and it subordinated the Starfighter Corps to this role. ![]() Urn:oclc:40621679 Scandate 20091106164634 Scanner Fighters of Lord Darth Vader's Black Squadron launching at the Battle of Yavin.Īfter the Declaration of a New Order in 19 BBY, the Republic Starfighter Corps lost its status as an independent arm of the military and was merged with the Imperial Navy. OL74152W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 45.00 Pages 42 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0773731822 ![]() Urn:lcp:starwarsepisodei00reyn:epub:52bbf27c-a5bb-407c-8ff3-7456082de053 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 2 Identifier starwarsepisodei00reyn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t21c2k51z Isbn 9780789439628Ġ78943962X Lccn 99010178 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:36:40 Boxid IA105908 Boxid_2 CH103201 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st American ed. ![]()
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