So this may have already been discussed elsewhere, but I'm wondering if the new ship revealed in the Star Wars Resistance announcement might be a new canon version of the E-wing. Thoughts?

Hardly makes an E if you don't have those big engines poking forward!

And it was already in a comic, just not named. I think it's either a race ship, or the future Headhunter "Everyone can get one" fighter.

Most of the speculation I’ve seen has been that that ship is some variation of an X, the T-85 maybe.

Guess it could be an E, but doesn’t really seem to have any of the characteristics I consider defining for the E-Wing.

I am curious if the jet wash behind it is artistic license or if the engine is actually in the central fuselage. That would be a pretty significant departure from the previous incom fighters.

14 minutes ago, sf1raptor said:

And it was already in a comic, just not named. I think it's either a race ship, or the future Headhunter "Everyone can get one" fighter.

I'll actually get a small chuckle if it turns out to be a Z-100 or a Z-195 Headhunter.

40 minutes ago, Reiver said:

Hardly makes an E if you don't have those big engines poking forward!

It's the engines that make the E shape?! I always thought it was the laser canons!

3 minutes ago, lkb57 said:

It's the engines that make the E shape?! I always thought it was the laser canons!

I could never see an E in the thing. Same with the B. I figured they had just given up and assigned letters randomly by that point.

Looks closer to a z-95 then an e-wing.

Not ugly or stupid enough to be the E-Wing.

52 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:

I could never see an E in the thing. Same with the B. I figured they had just given up and assigned letters randomly by that point.

52 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:

I could never see an E in the thing. Same with the B. I figured they had just given up and assigned letters randomly by that point.

The E-wing sort of looks like an E, but the A and B wing actually I think got their name from the fact they were named A fighter and B fighter for shooting and they just followed the naming convention that the X-Wing and Y-wing had after the fact since they sort of vaguely looked like that conveniently.

It’s all wacky nonsense given they don’t even use our alphabet for their writing.

remember Star Wars does not have “earthquakes” because there is no “earth”

top down however an a wing kind of looks like an A if you count the cockpit for the hole.

I read a long time ago the "B" in B-Wing stood for Blade. With the fuselage above the foils as the handle, the extended s foils being the cross guard and the remaing fuselage, the blade, it sort of looks like a dirk.

Not sure how accurate that bit of info is but there you have the logic of the B-Wing.

From the Star Wars wiki, the behind the scenes part with the source being from a bit written I think in one of the magazines on the model work done for the film:

The B-wing fighter was originally designed by Joe Johnston and Bill George for Return of the Jedi. The craft derives its name from the fact that the crew labeled the two new Rebel Alliance starfighter models in Return of the Jedi as "A fighter" and "B fighter". Bill George had so much input into the starship's development, that his colleagues nicknamed it the "Bill-Wing Fighter".^[14] Years later in Star Wars Legends the name "Blade wing" was devised as an in-universe nickname, which was canonized by the Star Wars Rebels production team.

1 minute ago, Animewarsdude said:

From the Star Wars wiki, the behind the scenes part with the source being from a bit written I think in one of the magazines on the model work done for the film:

The B-wing fighter was originally designed by Joe Johnston and Bill George for Return of the Jedi. The craft derives its name from the fact that the crew labeled the two new Rebel Alliance starfighter models in Return of the Jedi as "A fighter" and "B fighter". Bill George had so much input into the starship's development, that his colleagues nicknamed it the "Bill-Wing Fighter".^[14] Years later in Star Wars Legends the name "Blade wing" was devised as an in-universe nickname, which was canonized by the Star Wars Rebels production team.

What's funny is that this makes B(lade)-wing the only letter fighter name that makes sense, considering that they use a different alphabet.

This definitely ain't an E-Wing.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was a Z-95 variant/later model but I can't recall the source for that, I'm afraid. It might have just been speculation

My money is on this fighter being a T-85 or other iteration of the X-wing. The canopy and general layout of the fuselage is very very close to the T-65 and T-70. It could still be a totally unrelated ship but let’s face it, it’s Dave Filoni, he’s gonna connect everything he can

Z-96?

I bet it is an E-Wing and they simply removed all the stupid. The outboard engines are stupid. The cockpit cannon is stupid. The fighter depicted is far less stupid - almost like it was designed by people that actually understood Star Wars aesthetics!

Looks more like a rewamp of the Old republic era fighters.

THIS.jfif

I honestly just assumed it was in the line of the z95 from the first time it was shown. Could be an X-wing maybe, because it does to appear to be a straight down perspective where seeing the other wings and weapons might be blocked.

E-Wing is already canon, no reason to change it so drastically and a new ship is better than completely overwriting an existing one. Heck, even the idea that the E-Wing had system issues that had pilots disliking it could possibly still exist, and maybe that's why the Republic decided to continue using new X-Wing models instead.

Whatever it is, I hope it's new.

8 hours ago, Azrapse said:

Actually there is a better way to see the B on the B-Wing. Hold it where its flying horizontal, cockpit at one end and main cannon at the other and draw a B over the S-Foils. They are evenly spaced so you end up with a perfect B. As for the E you can either use both engines or both cannons, either way it makes an E.

Eh, if that's Disney's take on an E-Wing, I'll stick with the real one, thanks.

Besides, we all know that's just a WWII fighter flying backward.

Was goofing off watching old Rebels Recons, and in one, Pablo Hidalgo addresses the A & B-wings:

Short version, during production of RotJ, they wanted two new fighters, and gave them the placeholder names of “A” & “B”, and those stuck. “Blade-Wing” was a later created reason that Rebels ran with.