A perfect upgrade to a classic starfighter

[@GenerationTech]

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[@stepchildofsoul]

Where did you find that wallpaper on your monitor?

[@artdent9871]

Nice Catch Alan, this vid partly amplifies an exchange in the previous vid's comments that I was replying to, does a nice job addressing the issues raised. Notice I TOTALLY predicted the pirate droid turning out to be the Long John Silver of the Skeleton Crew😊, the writers really foreshadowed that, but the kids now have a killer droid that is both a threat to their lives, and needed to keep their starship operational, ooops🤔. No predictions on how that turns out, but what a wonderful piece of inter-episodic suspense! Nice writing, crew😂

[@artdent9871]

FORESHADOWING: the pirate droid ALREADY disabled life support, and now that it's both a threat to the crew's lives AND necessary to keep their ship operational, ya gotta think that the little exchange (when Jod told the pirate droid to turn life-support back on previously) was actually foreshadowing for part of the crisis currently developing between the human crew and the pirate droid. Imho Can't wait for next episode😊.

[@Delusionaryvisionary_407]

I can’t be the only one who loves the look of the T-70 design. It gets too much hate for the lack of originality within the sequel trilogy as a whole. If they mixed in the newer x,a,y wing models with some new designs that would have been perfect!

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

The problem with the sequels and everything related to them is that they tried to rewrite a legacy , to takeover the place of something that was far greater far legendary and far far worthy , the original trilogy and the legends novels universe and it did a very very poor job too , it literally pissed on what Star Wars is and tried to do something completely unrelated and the new models simply the same thing , they seem to replace the originals like they are saying the old one was weak and useless , look at me I’m more powerful and capable and shiny , I’m better than the old one , but in a far far bad way in terms

[@nove2485]

I don't too many people thought it wasn't a good looking ship.

[@Delusionaryvisionary_407]

@GenerationTech How would the T-70 fare against the TIE Dagger? The X-wing had better shields and targeting systems but the TIE Dagger was faster and had equal firepower. Saying that, the Dagger would have had much less of a price advantage than previous TIE fighters.

[@gforce1126]

The one thing I don’t like is the wing design. It’s like each of the four is a half wing. But the sleeker split engines is cool.

[@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel]

I love the T-70. The B-Wing still holds a special space in my heart, but the T-70 is very close.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

We need a new Rogue Squadron game....

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Yeah, and I frankly I think Disney was stupid to not go with a Wedge Antilles led Rogue Squadron film.

[@mbphilipblack8993]

I'm actually annoyed that the Squadrons movie/series got cancelled as it definitely would have got more eyes on that part of Star Wars

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@mikewaterfield3599 true

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@mbphilipblack8993 here as well.

[@Controlled_Insanity_003]

With improved graphics and physics

[@PolarBear_Gaming_More]

I had the 65 as a kid in 1979 its legendary

[@ciaranReal]

what planets did you go to?

[@PolarBear_Gaming_More]

@ciaranReal Mainly Dagobah in my backyard and Mars because kid

[@orokusaki1243]

I had one too. I brought it to show the other kids up the street, and one of them manually opened the wings instead of pushing R2 down. So it became "battle damaged"...broken off S-foil... Glue didn't last long in those days...especially with the heavy plastic.

[@PolarBear_Gaming_More]

@ that was what was really cool about that that you could push on R2-D2 and the wings would open. Also, you put batteries for the light gun in the nose

[@johnmightexist]

The T-70 is bar none, no contest my favorite vehicle of all time, i'm completely obsessed with them. Thank you so very much for this video.

[@nick-314]

I love the progression from T-65 to the T-70. Slim, modern, and retaining the iconic look. The T-65 is iconic but its replacement is another grandslam by Incom. We only get a quick look, but I dont think the T-85 quite gets tot the same level the two predecessors do

[@Leftycpe]

Always thought the T-70 and starfighters were not the issue with the sequels. They took what was in the originals and iterated on what worked there in a way that makes sense. Some other choices were much less appealing, but the X-Wing and the Tie seemed to come out of the sequels just fine. Really like the progression here from T-65B to the T-70. Great video as always!

[@Rooination]

I think a better comparison would be say the Me 163 vs the F4U. One was entirely a short range fighter that if hit with any sort of bullet would explode and/or melt their pilots (literally) while the other was by its own right a decent, long range fighter that suffered from design flaws in the landing gear / canopy combo that was a threat to less experienced pilots crashing on a landing attempt

[@0giwan]

There's a reason the Corsair was nicknamed the "Ensign Eliminator". Though, it was also nicknamed "Hosenose" because of its long nose, and I've adapted that nickname to refer to the T-65 in Age of Rebellion games.

[@artdent9871]

@ogiwan, yeah, then the Brits figured out how to land the Corsair on Carriers, and the 1st gen bugs were worked out, then the Corsair went on to (supposedly) have the best kill to loss ratio in the Pacific Theatre. But I do find the WW2 aircraft analogy apt. If you ignore the incredible range of the Zero, it IS a TIE fighter to the Corsair or Hellcat's X wing, at least in terms of durability. Zero's were always easily one-shotted, if you could catch the nimble little acrobats, even by non-explosive .50 cal bullets, but the new gen US planes introduced in '42 could survive a pretty serious raking, even by the Zero's explosive, 20 mm cannon shells.

[@artdent9871]

The Hellcat and Corsair could both take a beating and get home, the Zero was an acrobatic glass tiger. The X Wing and the TIE fighter.

[@recoil53]

The thing about all comparisons is that the TIE Fighter and X-Wings will inevitably fight head to head because of their missions. And there the TIE failed. Imperial doctrine did have them defending ships and they didn't. To be fair, when a single A-Wing crashing takes down a Star Destroyer then I don't know that any defense is possible. OTOH the Comet had to be able to intercept and destroy bombers, which it did. It didn't have to mess with fighters - Allied fighters actually couldn't intercept in time.

[@fitycalibre7555]

I’ve made a similar comparison with the Arc-170. Except the Arc is more a P-38 or P-61.

[@thomasrobson6370]

The first time I saw that new X-Wing with the es foils closed, I thought it was a z-95 headhunter

[@edkwon]

Woah, nice Skyline GTR analogy. I too consider the highly underrated middle child generation

[@thomasrobson6370]

@@edkwon in the original timeline there were many upgrades for the Z95 headhunter, and one of them was a hyperdrive unit

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

The rear gun are the t-70 x-wing is very useful and as mentioned in the video they can be operated by astromechs something the galactic republic could have done with the arc-170. I think i mentioned that before.

[@brobasticbroham446]

Such a sound design no wonder the Rebelion kept them around via upgrade packages X-Wing is the starwars F-15.

[@caesarspeaks]

Nah, it’s the Hornet!

[@fpena6038]

In the strictly modern context, yes, it is analagous to the F-15. However, when it was designed it was a lot closer to the F-14, with it's swing wings, deadly long-range Phoenix Missiles, its superior dog-fighting capacity, and it's ability to provide long-range defense for its carrier fleet.

[@Opusss]

Great video! Took me back to the good old days reading the technical manuals and encyclopedias. You don't look old enough to be an R33 Skyline fan!

[@AshinEys]

Absolutely love your breakdowns of various tech/ships in the SW franchise~ The sociology themed vids are still really well put together, I'm just a huge sucker for the love letters to fictional engineers~

[@artdent9871]

FORESHADOWING - the pirate droid ALREADY disabled life support, and now that it's both a threat to the crew's lives AND necessary to keep their ship operational, ya gotta think that the little exchange (when Jod told the pirate droid to turn life-support back on previously) was actually foreshadowing for part of the crisis currently developing between the human crew and the pirate droid. Imho Can't wait for next episode😊.

[@MinilordFTW]

Thank you for immediately calling out the complete different mission sets the xwing and ties had. And both saw upgrades that pushed them forward along their respective mission evolutions.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Gotta love when a good fighter gets better

[@JohnFoerster-i5y]

I think the T-65 is, and always will be my personal favorite, with an antiquated R 2 astromech droid.

[@DNONYAR]

Star FIGHTAS!

[@BRIANONEALSINGLETON]

@Generationtech Thank you Allen. I can always count on your videos to relax and make me happy.😊

[@ciaranReal]

I love the x wing family, its my favorite fighter in the sci fi world. From the Z95 to the T85. I really hope we get to see more of the T70 in upcoming movies and shows. As well as the T85, which would most likely be used by the new republic 5th fleet with nebulas and endurances.

[@Smuelaham]

This goes under the radar but the lighting in these recent videos has been awesome. I really enjoy the colors in the background.

[@daviddickinson6346]

Really interesting video Alan, cheers buddy. May the force be with you.

[@kineuhansen8629]

cant tell how much i just love the t70 design why replace something that work seeing the t70 fly low onver the water in episode 7 and the theme playing over it is just awesome and my favorite scene in the movie

[@JustSumGuy01]

I really like EC Henry's redesign of the T85

[@cloudmangalm03]

Props to Alan for recognizing that the R33 is such an underrated car

[@JainaSoloB312]

The T-70 is what I always imagined the Stealth X or XJ looked like, a true iteration on the T-65b rather than just a copy (like they were presented in the illustrations). The way Disney managed to match (and in my opinion surpass) the design of the iconic original X-Wing is remarkable. A couple corrections: the TIE/LN model *was* actually a space superiority fighter, I'd argue it was more specialized for that role than the T-65b (which was more of a jack-of-all-trades) was in fact. And the Ferrosphere paint is only on Poe's special T-70, Black One. Anyways, great to see someone giving the T-70 its due! It was one of the first things we saw from TFA and its genius design instantly reassured me that the film was in good hands (and sure enough TFA was fantastic). The T-70 is what I imagine when I re-read stories like New Jedi Order or Legacy of the Force, it's a brilliant, unique, and effective successor to the X-Wing we all know and love💜 I can't wait to see what the T-95 will look like someday!

[@KrypticElement]

Love the T-70

[@PolarBear_Gaming_More]

I love the builds videos the best

[@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel]

Great video. Thank you for all the lore and and content.

[@bigsarge2085]

One of the coolest looking movie designs of all time.

[@0giwan]

I would love to see a movie about the Imperial takeover of Incom, and the transfer of prototype, tooling, designs, and personnel from Incom to the Rebellion.

[@Connor19000]

the uncut mic returns!

[@dk6419]

It's great design, I love how it not only takes the original steps further but also it takes ques from the Macquarie concept. Personally, it's one of the few things I liked from the films. No not going down that route, but I do love this design.

[@BNuts]

I remember how much of a pain it was to deal with the shielded TIE Fighters in _TIE Fighter_ , due to how small and agile they already were. Add shields, and they're suddenly also very durable, whereas you can dust a normal TIE inside of four hits. But my favourite TIE was the TIE Avenger (completed TIE Advanced). It was small, agile, and powerful. The thing I disliked about the TIE Defender was that its outward-bracketed solar panels made it a _huge_ target by comparison. There was also the Assault Gunboat and the Advanced Missileboat. It was always funny having a starcraft with four missile launchers, afterburners (which wasn't a thing in _Star Wars_ flight sims until then. It was standard in _Wing Commander_ ) , and a single laser. In the Old EU, the remarkable upgrades to the X-wing platform were the ChaseX and the StealthX. The ChaseX was general-use, and basically had everything upgraded from the standard X-wing. The StealthX was for Jedi use, and was not only stealthy as the name suggests, but had slimmed down on the onboard equipment, relying on the pilot's Force abilities to do most of the damage, including guiding missiles and bombs to their targets. Also in the Old EU, the X-wing was supposed to be replaced by the E-wing, but the X-wing ended up performing better, and so the New Republic just kept on upgrading it. There were other fighters and bombers, of course, but none so iconic. If I had to point to any others, they might be the Chiss Clawcraft or the Mandalorian Besul'ik, neither of which were used by the New Republic or Galactic Alliance.

[@orokusaki1243]

The thing that sold the Defender for me was all the guns, laser and ion, the missile payload, and the tractor beam. The shields were ofc quite handy but liked setting power to guns and engines a lot better.

[@hansmerker5611]

I would take the blue T-70 X-WING.

[@merafirewing6591]

I have a soft spot for the sequel trilogy vehicles, starfighters and starships, but heavily despise the Xyston class.

[@ThePhengophobe]

The T-70 was a PERFECT design upgrade for the Sequels. It shows development, with believable miniaturization of key components, making them harder to hit and disable, while maintaining or even upgrading their performance while still keeping the silhouette of the classic X-Wing, letting fans still have a tight connection to one of their most iconic ships, while still setting it apart, and not running into story issues of "why are they using an old ass fighter?". It also works for a worldbuilding standpoint, it can show that the New Republic is abit hung up on their past glory, they were using the X-Wing for it's nostalgia even in universe. The X-Wing was already a very successful multi-role platform, capable of space superiority, as well as some lighter strike missions with their proton torpedos, ground attack as seen in Rogue One, escort service due to it's hyperdrive, allowing fighter escorts to revert to realspace imminently, rather than having to launch from a carrier. It was shielded, which protected it's pilots far better than the TIE, Which based on real-world history is VERY important to the health of your air force or in this case starfighter corps. It allows for more survivors, able to go on and train new pilots and compounding their success. The Sequels got ALOT of things wrong, especially other designs, but the T-70 is definitively one of the best things to come out of the new movies.

[@rodolfohernandez2702]

For me the X-Wing the T-65B will always be my favorite, the T-70 variant is pretty slick but the wing design it got after Episode 7 it very awkward. From a perspective view the X-Wing the T-65B it's kinda like an F/A-18C Hornet and the T-70 it's the F/A-18F Super Hornet.

[@probeulater]

Great video. Thank you

[@hobbstactv2571]

I often hear you talk about the "underground factories" the rebellion used to build and maintain their various fighters, but I wonder if a more efficient and safe route would be to use stolen Confederate LuchreHulk freighters for this purpose. Think about it, the layout would be perfect, you have two hangar bay doors very close to and facing each other on the split ends of the outer ring assembly. One door could be used to accept parts and raw materials into, the assembly line factory floor could be built along the perimeter of the ring, and finished fighters could be spit out through the opposite bay door. The LuchreHulk had a hyperdrive, so it could constantly be moving instead of being on a planet vulnerable to raids, and it could meet up at supply points virtually anywhere, including at battle sites to receive newly acquired materials, and then just jump out again. I don't think I've ever heard of one being used like this, and if they weren't, it was a huge missed opportunity.

[@Plaprad]

Good idea, REALLY hard to pull off. You would have to continually update it's location to whoever is dropping off new engines, seats, paint, etc... Even if all manufacturing is there, you still need raw materials. The Empire could cripple you without destroying it, just keep it moving faster than the supply chain. A static location with equipment designed to be "easily" transported would be easier to keep secret since once suppliers know where to go, that's it. They don't talk, or get followed then the secret remains. If you can't keep a good logistics train things get really hard, really fast. Learned that one many times sitting on the ground with a useless aircraft because parts are "On the way". Though, a setup like on the Battlestar Pegasus, where everything from mining to functional check flights can be done by one ship with minimal assistance from a small fleet would be a great asset. Go to a "safe" area, get materials, and manufacture fighters en-route to a fleet rendezvous and refill their squadrons before heading back to safe space COULD be a good thing. But still a lot of headaches.

[@spaps2290]

Using lucurehulks for manufacturing would be pretty interesting though I don’t know how available any would be even during the beginning stages, unless you could steal a working one from a scrap world and somehow not get blasted to bits before jumping away

[@Plaprad]

@@spaps2290 Not sure about now, but the Rebellion had one in Legends. It was involved in the first attack against the Death Star and destroyed rather quickly IIRC.

[@orokusaki1243]

"Underground" certainly means "not publicly known or accessible", in this instance. Mobility and seclusion were key strategies for the Rebels.

[@khandimahn9687]

While I do like the upgraded X-Wing... to be honest, I really would have preferred something new, something we had not seen on a screen before. Just like I would like to have something new instead of a TIE fighter with a slightly different paint job. But the lack of originality was only one of the problems of the sequels.

[@lordMartiya]

Nitpick: the T-65B wasn't the only combat variant of the early X-Wing, there was also the superior T-65C A2. It's likely the New Republic used the latter variant (already existing during the war, but rare due the difficulty of manufacturing) rather than the B.

[@Hugh-Jassoul]

I always said that Incom selling the X-Wing to the rebels after getting denied by the Empire is like if Northrop Grumman started selling the YF-23 Black Widow II to the Taliban after losing to the F-22.

[@GrummanCatenjoyer]

So basically the T-70 is to the T-65B what the Super hornet is to the Legacy Hornet

[@lordcharmy4047]

it makes me so happy when you mention cool cars and bikes

[@ThePhengophobe]

The continued use of the T-65 to me seems more of a distance from the central government thing, the outer systems are given the older models, while the New Republic military would be using the most up to date models. The X-Wings over the observatory Moon in Skeleton crew also have dedicated policing upgrades, with the lower laser cannons replaced with what seem to be Ion blasters, older platforms given a slight tweak for use in a less combat intensive role. It's abit odd that the Adelphi Rangers didn't have the same upgrades, since they seemed to serve similar roles, more as a general peacekeeping outpost, somewhat like a sherriff; responsible for a wide swath of space and not just a single planet or system, but serving in simple policing roles often because of it.

[@willadeefriesland5107]

A hero (ship) is defined by the quality of their enemies. If the T.I.E. fighter wasn’t as good as it was, the X-Wing wouldn't have risen to legendary status...

[@g.williams2047]

The sequels best attribute were the fantastic ship designs in Episodes 7 & 8.

[@weirdguy564]

All of my feelings on the various starfighters comes from the old LucasArts X-wing/Tie Fighter flight sim games. I would put the X-wing on par with the Tie Advanced (Darth Vader's ship was a prototype for the Advanced). The Tie Fighter and Tie Interceptor are both good, but without shields and a hyperdrive those two fighters are just cheap pop cans with guns.

[@Strongeyez]

Would love to see you do a piece on Wingman - an x wing story. I think it shows some good footage of starfighters.

[@AlbertoRodriguez-ju6hc]

My math sucks so I'm happy to let someone else touch it up with my ideas implemented thank you.

[@brianhenderson7893]

Excellent work. Thoughts on T-70 vs E-Wing? Also, asking for an analysis of TIE Bomber, comparing and contrasting vs the Y-Wing. Cockpit nerds will eat this up!

[@claymclaren5788]

Huh, I always assumed it was pronounced "Free-tech".

[@weirdstuff_tm8942]

am i insane or is the L/R audio balance on the voiceover put to the left side

[@KrypticElement]

I recommend checking out EC Henry's live action interpretation of the T-85 X-Wing! Star Wars Resistance doesn't do that Starfighter design justice imo, and this redesign is pretty much how I'd expect to see it in live action

[@Duskcosmog]

The best starfighters are droid starfighters. They're far cheaper, lighter, they don't need life support and inertia compensator's, and they can turn on a dime and not get squash inside their cockpits because they don't have cockpits. Because of their cockpitliess design, they also can have higher deceleration and acceleration speeds. The only downside is that certain organics are more creative and intelligent, they had better aim, and they could fly more complexly. But being able to have a turn rate 100x over a manned strafighter minutes the advantage of having organic pilots. Droid starfighters are far better at swarm tactics because you can hook them up to hive mind network so each one knows what the other is doing, and they know where they need to be to stay in formation. My personal pick for best droid starfighter would be the tri-fighter, it's the size of a large truck at 17.5 ft long, and being 11ft 4 in tall and wide ; it has 3 light laser canons and 1 heavy laser canon,, it also has two ordinance launchers that can fire dicird missiles that release buzz droids; It's highly manuverable being able to reach up to 3,600 Gs. It has a mega light rating of 125, and in the atmosphere, it could travel at 733.22 mph (also, for some reason, on wookipedia, it says it can get up to 22,990.73 mph which is ridiculous); you can get all of this for $40,000 credits, which means that for the price of an ARC-170 you could get 4.5 trifighters; although lacking shields it was heavily armored meaning it was surprisingly tanky for it's size; they also had more advanced predatory droid brains. All of this meant the tri fighter was literally the GOAT, no wonder the ARC-170s got bent over by them during the battle of coruscant.

[@stuglife5514]

Yea I can agree with you, but the ARC-170 absolutely slaps as a CAS airframe, was never meant to be a superiority fighter. Thing has guns meant to kill bunkers and capital ships, thing was meant for deep strikes, not dogfighting in contested space/airspace. Shame the republic used them so wrong at first

[@Duskcosmog]

@stuglife5514 The ARC-170 is weird. It's supposed to be a long-range recognizance craft, but the only real recognizance features it has are the super powerful sensors and communication devices in its nose. Having three pilots makes sense. You have a tail gunner to deal with targets behind you, then you have a pilot and co-pilot so the ship can stay flying when one of them is sleeping. You also have an astromech to help with any other roles. But for some reason, it has medium laser canons that can pierce capital ship hulls. The issue is that they're not very good at taking out other starfighters, which is the main threat to the ARC-170. The best recognizance craft is like the A wing. It's small, really nimble, it has a lot of recognizance features, and it can hold its own in a dog fight. Just turn it into a droid starfighter, and you have one of the best recognizance crafts. Some more issues with the ARC-170 are that it was expensive at 180,000 credits. It took up a good amount of hanger space. When it got shot, you lost 3 pilots and an astromech. Also, clone pilots on their own are ridiculously expensive, I've seen estimates that clone troopers cost 1 million credits if you factor in the initial cost, food, water, barracs, medicine, etc.

[@MalfosRanger]

​@Duskcosmog The ARC-170 is essentially a P-61 Black Widow in space. Two man crew with an optional rear gunner. One of the first purpose built night fighters. Armed with four 20mm cannons and a quad .50 turret that could swivel 360 degrees or be slaved forward for additional firepower. The two have similar silhouttes to boot.

[@Duskcosmog]

@MalfosRanger The ARC-170 has a fun design, but tri fighters and vulture droids go brrrrrr

[@troiscinq7650]

The T-70 is one of the best things to come from the sequel trilogy. It looks phenomenal and moves beautifully. Every time it was in screen it had impact

[@leaaronsanchez]

I agree comparing the Tie fighter against the X-Wing is like comparing the A-10 against the F-35. Two powerful aircraft with completely different roles and purposes.

[@johncnorris]

T-65 4 life!!!

[@showxating9885]

Marshmallow. I like your new mic cover.

[@isaackim7675]

I feel that squadron leaders should have the right to paint their fighters to signify their rank

[@mbphilipblack8993]

The X-wing in itself was a fantastic fighter capable of both space battle and atmospheric dogfights the only thing to improve on was a sleeker design. To me the T-65 is the F-22 and you get the F-35 with the T-70. If you use the P38/80 (went into production 1945) compared to the F22/35 (went into production 1996) as the gap is 45 years and for the OT to the ST its 30s so yes it technically should be a drastically different design but the ship blew up the Death Star you can't get better than that.

[@Spectacular_Insanity]

We should have gotten the E-Wing, with upgraded laser cannons and backwards compatibility for astromechs.

[@Ghrizlok]

I thoroughly enjoy your dives into starships and would love it if you took a look at the YV-929 armed freighter.

[@ferretmonger0236]

Palpatine: ok, who designed the "Viking"(starcraft 2 Tarran ship), I want that guy on the list of people going to the Maw Installation!

[@les4767]

That's actually the original design by Ralph MQuarrie for the concept art that sold Star Wars to the producers. That's what X-Wings would've looked like before they were re-designed during production of the original film.

[@jamesnoonan2009]

I wish Disney would make some non canon What If movies about the Empire winning the war and not the rebels

[@neodecker]

The Tie fighter is a Snub fighter. It relies on a mothership to transport long distances.

[@pilgrimgirl3182]

“Star FIghters”😆

[@moemann66]

The Walken was a surprise...think we need more

[@afunkymonke]

Alright fine, I'll buy 5 X-Wings.

[@luckygreenforest508]

Great Video 📹 👍 👏 👌 🙌 😀

[@jamiewalsh3349]

I hope we see the T-70 in a New Republic era show. Or maybe in Filoni's movie, they'll give Thrawn a headache.

[@k-9741]

Destined to never be made.

[@Johannes_Exiguus]

3:17 skin-safe foils in attack position!

[@strf90105]

an elegant starfighter for a more civilized time

[@Kingtiger21]

The tie fighter vs x wing is like the me262 vs the p51d one is a perfect mass producible design that does its job very well ware as the other could be amazing and outmatch the other, but struggles through overly complex design and material shortages

[@GabeBlack]

Two world wars! The .45 doesn't just kill, it also kills the soul.

[@allthatwecan]

Quality Christopher Walken reference at the start of the video.

[@tedrex8959]

As befits a video about the tie fighter I am watching it on the smallest screen possible in a dangerous area with no idea what is behind me. I can forsee no problems with this plan.

[@quentinhall1056]

Hey Alan, what’s your take on Skeleton Crew’s Onyx Cinder?

[@kentharkins7193]

ya! love po dameron's T70, i dont know if they have a stealth version, because that would be totally awesome! haha!

[@Matthewwithers33]

I see the commander Cody Lego helmet set on the shelf… I just recently got one and built it myself

[@KaijuBiologist]

Never realized that the T70 was that much of an upgrade. I still want a Tie Defender. They just look cooler.

[@Sufferingzify]

If the TIE could even Compete with the X-wing makes it the perfect fighter. If you can save 1.6x the cost in procurement and almost 2x in maintenance, while keeping it easy to mass produce, makes it the actual Military Industry fighter. If 2 equally sized navies were to field both systems, the TIE would probably win the overall Space Micro Superiority War.

[@Delusionaryvisionary_407]

@GenerationTech How would the T-70 fare against the TIE Dagger? The X-wing had better shields and targeting systems but the TIE Dagger was faster and had equal firepower. Saying that, the Dagger would have had much less of a price advantage than previous TIE fighters.

[@AetherStryfe]

Somehow, plot armor returned.

[@DELTAWOLF15]

14:33 there are more then 3 Variants of the X-Wings BTW...

[@hiredgoon93]

Hey Alan, Can you do something on the Mandalorian Fang Fighter and how it stacks up against its imperial and rebel counterparts?

[@calvinstraveldreams]

Good design with a realistic modernization of the T65 X-Wing’s features…still wish that they used E-Wings (the ones from Legends, that is)…

[@calvinstraveldreams]

I also wish that the First Order used a mix of TIE Hunters, TIE Defenders, TIE Interceptors, and Chiss Clawcraft…

[@MrSheckstr]

I’ve always looked at it as the T-70 (the Poe X) is not so much a direct upgrade of the T-65 (The Wedge/Luke X) as it a merging of the T-65 with the Z-95 head hunter PX DOES has the benefit of miniaturized tech to create an more nimble equivalent of T-65 on a lighter frame, But i think the reason most old timer prefer the T-65 with an R series droid is both craft and droid are more rugged with raw power than a T-70/BB. I think the old timers have more experience in being stuck in a Dagobah situation and appreciate the extra hardware a both a T-65 and R series can pack in and their own ingenuity to improvise a system to load and unload those droids who DON’T have the should rocket upgrade

[@shadowofdarkness3383]

Havent seen this chanel in awhile.

[@davidragan9233]

The only thing worth keeping from the Kennedy Offshoot, Just need to have Luke snag one with R2 and vanish into the World between Worlds with one and reformat the Kennedy-verse

[@matthewsnyder77]

Christopher Walken Foo FIGHTers reference ftw

[@arkhamasylum8972]

The tie defender is not a good comparison to the t 65 x wing. It was far more expensive. More than twice the cost of an xwing. The tie avenger is a better comparison to the X wing. It's a little more expensive, but it's still better to compare it to the x wing.

[@jeffreycarman2185]

The x-wing is a nice well-rounded fighter craft. The starfighter makes little actual sense, but in Star Wars it’s good.

[@JMPT]

Very Nice

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Eh I liked the upgrade I did not like the split engine but that’s just aesthetic taste.

[@lukedesmith]

the standard TIE fighter was not an interceptor, that role was filled by the TIE/IN.

[@crow2-5-x2]

The T-70 was the best thing the sequels gave us. Its such a pretty craft

[@jameslewis2635]

IMO the X-Wing was never the Alliance equivalent of the TIE LN. That would have been the A-Wing which still out-classed it in nearly every way possible. The X-Wing was a generalist. It could do some of the work of a bomber, act as a fighter or even as a long range scout. However its speed and manoeuvrability is not as good as that of the TIE LN or any other member of the TIE range other than the TIE Bomber and Gunboat. If any of the TIE range was equivalent to the X-Wing that would have been the TIE Advanced x2 which had shields, 4 lasers and the capability to launch missiles and a hyperdrive. Sure, it may have not gone into mainstream production because of the unit cost, but that just shows how little the Empire valued its pilots.

[@huntermad5668]

LN acted as standard starfighter for the Empire like X-Wing. TIE-Interceptor are pretty much the answer to all the Rebel starfighter through. Fast, heavily armed, highly maneuverable and cheap enough to replace LN. There is no Rebel Starfighter could outfight TIE-Interceptor.

[@Shaggy815]

Hot take: I prefer the t-70. It looks sleeker than the t-65.

[@mbphilipblack8993]

Same I prefer the T-70 and the A wing from the resistance. The other rebel ships look fine as is. With First Order their aesthetic is just sleeker but more or less the ships are just as good as the empires.

[@gooddog2001]

Did the rebels sometimes get y-wings like on something like Ebay, or junk yards, used car lots, or buy them off of individuals. I mean the Y-Wing was significant during the war. Did they find them abandon in ghost towns or in old, foreclosed buildings.