B Wing is Best Wing

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>>13813177
No, this is best Wing.

>>13813177
Wait, how does that look like a "B"?

>>13813251

It's short for Blade.

>>13813272
Yup, just like the X-Wing is short for XTREEEEME

>>13813281
A-wing is short for AAWWWWEESSOMMEEE
Y-wing is short for YYOOOOOOOOOOOO watch me job!!

>>13813177
That must be so awkward to pilot

>>13813177
Whenever I see a B-wing all I can think of is how much of a giant pain in the ass it must be to aim, since there's no way in hell those guns can consistently converge anywhere but in front of the pivot point.

>>13813288
I never understood why the Y-Wings didn't just turn those ion turrets backwards in the trench and rape the TIEs.

>>13814543
There a bitch to maintain and so only three Y wings at Yavin had them working.

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>red dots
Further proof you should support The good Emperor Palpatine.

>>13814543
>>13814566
Shit working like it's supposed to makes for bad storytelling.

>>13814543
As >>13814566 mentioned, only two Y-Wings had functional ion turrets in that battle. The turrets are locked facing forward unless there's a dedicated gunner anyway.

>>13814596

That's only true in stories where the thing not working properly is a major focus. Even the X-Wings weren't a major focus in any Star Wars and they all worked fine. The Y-Wings didn't work because the main character wasn't in one and so they were the older and obsolete shitheap other pilots had to put up with because they didn't have more X-Wings or newer bombers, nothing more.

Now, the X-Wings will probably have faults and issues in Rogue One for the reason you mentioned, because they'll almost certainly feature for more than a couple of minutes in that.

not mecha

>>13813293

It's a real bitch, but supposedly amazingly effective. The rotating cockpit allows the craft some seriously good evasive maneuverability by canceling rotational Gs on the pilot even though it lacks turning speed.

It's supposed to be quite the trial by fire however.

>>13814693
It's a mixed bag. In one of the Rogue Squadron books, Wedge says he dislikes the B-wing since the cockpit rotation screws with his sense of the ship, making him feel more like a driver than a pilot.

>>13813177
>B Wing is Best Wing

Indeed. But why is is called the "B Wing" when it clearly looks like a "T"?

>>13814732
>it clearly looks like a "T"?

technically a "t"

>>13814717

It's a important complaint. What's his face in the trench run supposedly crashed because he canceled all his craft's G-Feedback and didn't even know he was losing power.

The pilot is the most important sensor on the plane... He/She has the amazing ability to detect "WRONG", even when the thing that trips it is literally "I feel nothing."

>>13814732
It's because the B stands for Blade. That's a recent change.

>>13814732

Look at it from its side hanging from a launch rack.

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>>13813177
?

>>13814740
Porkins?

Nah he was just a fatass.

>>13814693
>Star Wars
>G forces

>>13815166

Just because they use space magic to fly like planes doesn't mean forces aren't exerted on the craft and pilot.

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>>13814732
When viewed from the side it does sort of look like an upside down 'b'

Perhaps it's called a B wing because it's a bomber?

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>>13813177
>tfw never got to see B Wings BTFOing Star Destroyers at Endor.

A shame since now we know that B Wings pack mini superlasers.

>>13815282

That's dumb as hell

>>13815282

The ship it's destroying there is an Imperial Light Cruiser, not a Star Destroyer and it's a lot smaller than even the baby Star Destroyers. Light Cruisers are only 250 meters long to the 900 meters of even the smallest Star Destroyers. The proper ones were 1600 meters. It'd take a lot more than something like that to hurt a real Star Destroyer, especially since a Star Destroyer is going to have both stronger defenses and stronger weaponry than a Light Cruiser.

>>13815299

It's not really. Putting aside that it's a prototype B-Wing that experiences multiple system issues due to the weaponry it's packing and that we know it gets pared down to something less complex for production it's really not much if any more damaging than a couple of missiles or something would do. It's just a different form of delivery. It makes as much sense as anything else in Star Wars.

>>13814614
lurk more newfag

>>13815248
Nah, it's because of its production name. The A-wing was known as craft a and b wing was referred to as craft b during the story board phase.

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If you want to get super nerdy, none of the ships match their in-universe letter:

>>13815580

Aurek's left half looks like an A-wing if you only saw its nose section, and Besh looks like the center portion of the B-wing, at least.

I think it's a reasonable assumption, considering that we have a fighter nicknamed Viper by diehard fans just because it uses a sidestick like the fictional one.

>Flying Mon Cal bullshit
Nah.

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>>13814732
The real answer is something along the lines of the A-wing and B-wing having placeholder names in ROTJ production as A Fighter and B Fighter to just distinguish them from the others. The convoluted answer in-universe answer is "blade wing" or this sort of visual stretch of the imagination.

>>13815351
>The ship it's destroying there is an Imperial Light Cruiser, not a Star Destroyer and it's a lot smaller than even the baby Star Destroyers.

That's true. But if a single B Wing can do that to a small Imperial Cruiser, then it's not hard to imagine a squadron or smaller group of B Wings and their mini superlasers fucking up an Imperial Star Destroyer.

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The B-wing got the least amount of screentime of all the ships in the Endor battle because George, ILM, or someone making the call thought it didnt really show up good onscreen.

damn shame

>>13815731
Wish we'd gotten to see some B Wings in TFA, seeing it as it would have made sense to have heavy bomber like them in the attack on Starkiller Base, but that would have went against the whole 'Let's copy and paste the final battle of ANH!' that they did.

>>13815731
The thin design made it really hard to show up on the blue screen. They even changed the colors of the B-wing to make it show up more but it was still not enough.

What I never understood was how the damn cockpit functioned

>>13815789
What got me was the fact that there's literally only two kinds of fighters in that battle. Star Wars exists primarily to sell toys. Nobody would have complained if they had an updated Y-Wing, A-wing or B-wing tag along on the attack, yet they limited the kind of fighters to two.

>>13815881

It's a 360* rotating cockpit. It automatically counter rotates to minimize or eliminate G-force. This lets you throw the "Blade" to the outside of a turn to maximize turnrate.

Pity it jams like a motherfucker.

>>13814732
The two new rebel fighters were known in-house as "fighter-A" and "fighter-B". The A-wing made sense, B-wing didn't but it stuck and has been ham-fistedly canonized.

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>>13813230
True best right here.

>>13815723

Smaller groups of fighters can and do fuck up Star Destroyers in Star Wars though. The games, comics and books had it all the time and even the movies had that one A-Wing taking out a Super Star Destroyer on it's own, even if only because of a lucky (suicide) strike.

>>13816640
That Super Star Destroyer's bridge deflector shields had been knocked out iirc. Virtually any hit to that location would have crippled the ship. That said, that A-wing pilot really knew how to go out with bang

>>13816669

Well yea, that's why I said he was lucky, but it still happened regardless. And personally, I find that far worse because Super Star Destroyers are several miles long and should have multiple bridges and shouldn't really be destructible by a single hit like that. I know it got sucked in to the Death Star II's gravity well, but that's still just weak sauce.

>>13815789
What ever happened to Admiral Ackbar's B-Wing?

>>13813272
Does it kill undead?

>>13817220
Some muthafucka's always trynna ice skate uphill.

>>13815789
Keep in mind that the Resistance is -not- the Rebel Alliance. Leia & pals created it after the Republic refused to re-arm in the face of the FO, their sips and equipment are mostly donated. The T-70 model X-wing was being phased out of service for newer craft at the time of TFA.