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When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, some of the space fighters had been built in (or built out) by Expanded Universe material like video games. That doesn’t mean those vehicles weren’t pretty cool. Assuming blaster technology gets better over time, rank these fighters by weapons fire power from weakest to strongest.
V-Wing
Y-Wing
Z-95
TIE Fighter
A-Wing
X-Wing
E-Wing
B-Wing (including all its cannon guns)
Why the assumption that blaster tech in general improves over time? Blasters in Episode 1 look and act the same as blasters/lazers in Episode 6, or even the Ep 7 preview.
That said we also have starfighters that themselves have multiple variants like the Z-95 or TIE which may increase in overall more effecient designs that output more firepower due to being in active production over decades.
V-Wing
Y-Wing
Z-95
TIE Fighter
A-Wing
X-Wing
E-Wing
B-Wing (including all its cannon guns)
Here's my take:
Z-95
V-Wing
Y-Wing
TIE Fighter
A-Wing
X-Wing
B-Wing
E-Wing
I put the Z-95 last, just because it's so much older than the others. By the same token, the E-Wing gets top honors as the "newest" fighter in the bunch.
Are we supposed to base this purely on cannon weaponry or on ordnance as well?
V-wing
TIE
Z-95
A-wing
Y-wing
X-wing
E-wing
B-wing
I'd put the Y ahead of the Z-95, otherwise: what Levi said.V-Wing
Y-Wing
Z-95
TIE Fighter
A-Wing
X-Wing
E-Wing
B-Wing (including all its cannon guns)
I thought the Z was a more modern fighter, slightly, than the Y, at least based on the Clone Wars show.
Blasters and lasers are not synonymous in Star Wars and are not used interchangeably. Interceptors, for example, are sometimes cited as having 4 lasers and 2 blasters.
The premise that newer=stonger is also flawed. Newer means better in some metric, be it more powerful, more efficient, cheaper, or smaller.
Edited by Koshinn
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When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, some of the space fighters had been built in (or built out) by Expanded Universe material like video games. That doesn’t mean those vehicles weren’t pretty cool. Assuming blaster technology gets better over time, rank these fighters by weapons fire power from weakest to strongest.
- A-wing
- B-wing
- E-wing
- V-wing
- X-wing
- Y-wing
- Z-95 Headhunter
- Tie fighter
V-Wing
TIE Fighter
Z-95
A-Wing
E-Wing
Y-Wing
X-Wing
B-Wing
Z-95s may be older and their blasters less powerful then V-Wings or TIE Fighters but they have missile launchers
The Y-Wings are older then the X-Wing so even though they have the same number of weapons they have slightly less one shot punch.
E-Wings may be newer but they have three cannons to an X-Wing or Y-Wings four meaning cannon powered would have had to increase more then 25 percent between the Y-Wing's creation and the E-Wing's or the X-Wing's creation and the E-Wing's for them to match the older fighters.
Why the assumption that blaster tech in general improves over time? Blasters in Episode 1 look and act the same as blasters/lazers in Episode 6, or even the Ep 7 preview.
Because then replacing the entire fleet would be somewhat pointless. Real ballistic weapons act the same as they did in the First World War. Doesn't mean militaries would ever use them over modern ones.
Edited by Blue FiveWhy the assumption that blaster tech in general improves over time? Blasters in Episode 1 look and act the same as blasters/lazers in Episode 6, or even the Ep 7 preview.
That said we also have starfighters that themselves have multiple variants like the Z-95 or TIE which may increase in overall more effecient designs that output more firepower due to being in active production over decades.
That said, there is no reason to assume that "improvement" means bigger guns, faster vehicles, bigger explosions, etc. A production line that produces 100 starfighters a day rather than 10 is a vast improvement, especially if each fighter uses fewer resources. That is worth trading a bit of firepower.
I'm going to go per the lore and say the e-wing's cannons we're initially found to be underpowered and thus the ship underwent an upgrade. That being said the sheer size and number of guns on the X and B should give them top spot, but don't count the A out because those suckers brought down the Executor during Endor (the missiles helped tho as well as the rebel fleet concentrating fire).
Also, are we talking T.I.E. from the republic or TIE or TIE/ln? There was a progression in firepower there too.
The Z-95 mark 1 had triple blasters but the AF-4 had two guns that were the same as the ones on the X-wing, meaning the x had literally twice the firepower.
Here's how I see it then:
TIE
V-
A-wing
Z-95
Y
E
X
B
TIE / A / Z / V
X / E
Y
B
Gonna reiterate something said around here before, the Galactic Republic is thousands of years old and has utilized laser weapons that entire time. The 30 year gap between trilogies or even expanded after EpVI, despite wartime technological advances, would not likely create a drastic improvement in that sort of technology.
Then again, Death Stars, Suncrushers, cloaking...
I'm going to go per the lore and say the e-wing's cannons we're initially found to be underpowered and thus the ship underwent an upgrade. That being said the sheer size and number of guns on the X and B should give them top spot, but don't count the A out because those suckers brought down the Executor during Endor (the missiles helped tho as well as the rebel fleet concentrating fire).
Also, are we talking T.I.E. from the republic or TIE or TIE/ln? There was a progression in firepower there too.
The Z-95 mark 1 had triple blasters but the AF-4 had two guns that were the same as the ones on the X-wing, meaning the x had literally twice the firepower.
Here's how I see it then:
TIE
V-
A-wing
Z-95
Y
E
X
B
I would like to point out that the major reason the Executor went down because of A-wings was because of Arvel Crynyd putting his exploding ship smack-dab in the middle of the Executor's bridge. That had nothing to do with the A-wing's firepower! 
Edit: Smiley face!
Edited by Sel AntillesI would like to point out that the major reason the Executor went down because of A-wings was because of Arvel Crynyd putting his exploding ship smack-dab in the middle of the Executor's bridge. That had nothing to do with the A-wing's firepower!I'm going to go per the lore and say the e-wing's cannons we're initially found to be underpowered and thus the ship underwent an upgrade. That being said the sheer size and number of guns on the X and B should give them top spot, but don't count the A out because those suckers brought down the Executor during Endor (the missiles helped tho as well as the rebel fleet concentrating fire).
Also, are we talking T.I.E. from the republic or TIE or TIE/ln? There was a progression in firepower there too.
The Z-95 mark 1 had triple blasters but the AF-4 had two guns that were the same as the ones on the X-wing, meaning the x had literally twice the firepower.
Here's how I see it then:
TIE
V-
A-wing
Z-95
Y
E
X
B
Edit: Smiley face!
The missiles pumped into the bridge sensor dome causing it to explode and knock out the bridge deflector shields certainly had something to with fire power and mr Arvil not just splatting against the shields .