that had a muzzle velocity of roughly 800 to 1000 meters per second (aka 2700-3400 feet per second). that puts TIE fighters at slower traveling speed than most anti-aircraft weapons of the period! just take the ubiquitous Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

If the speed of 750 to 780 mph is considered canonical. while that should make them comfortably immune to interception via direct pursuit it DOES NOT make them invisible to land-based radar networks, or prevent people from vectoring large groups of fighters to intercept them while they are on the way to their targets (presumably escorting TIE bombers) Most sources I've looked at only have TIE fighters flying around 750 mph within atmospheric contexts. they might be able to turn on a dime in space, but in an atmosphere they're not going to be as agile. TIE fighters would have to overcome an amazing amount of induced drag just to get around. They are also optimized for non-atmospheric deep space flight. based on demonstrated 'feats' EVERY single time TIE fighter comes into contact with a large solid object they tend get destroyed, or at least to come out of it very badly. I thought they might, but apparently they don't. Last I checked TIE fighters don't actually have shields of any kind. are TIE fighters invisible to these large radar networks? even if they were, there would still be sound-location techniques that could be used to track their movements. are we just ignoring the fact that every major nation at war in 1944 had large radar networks designed to pick up enemy aerial intrusions and direct interceptor aircraft accordingly? just one casual look at any SW 'aircraft' would show that they are not the least bit 'stealthy'. I assumed that the posters here would at least be knowledgeable of basic WW2 details like how radar networks were used to command/control large formations of aircraft. When I wrote about the use of radar I was not intending to say that WW2 fighters actually had them as standard equipment. Considering that he's seriously talking about WW2 fighters picking stuff up on RADAR?Įdit: Just to note they did actually exist at that point, but in incredibly small numbers, and were so bulky and cumbersome to be limited entirely to night raidsassuming that all of the major combatants felt the need to attack this star destroyer.

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