You just know those LAAT clone trooper pilots had Fortunate Son on their playlists
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Anyways, the LAAT / Republic Gunship is one of the very few craft that Star Wars got exactly right. I mean, the wings are too big for something that doesn't really /need/ wings, and those missile launchers could have been styled a little better, but aside from that, it just looks right. And it performs right.
So, hey, something something blind squirrel something nut something.
The LAAT a somehow reasonably practical designed combat/support aircraft that exists in a universe filled with angry droids and space wizards
it plays perfectly by the rules of the universe it's in, which is far more important than it playing by the rules of our existing reality
Which is funny because these things get shot down more than any other Star Wars dropship.
@@FischerFilmStudio very true
@@FischerFilmStudio The lack of a shield generator and writers forgetting/omitting the bulk of your weapons will do that.
@@FischerFilmStudio Not suprising. Star Wars combat is rarely realistic/makes sense
"Pilot, what is that sound?"
Pilots: *Jamming out to Fortunate Son* "Victory, sir."
Knowing vietnam, its more of a brief relief.
LAAT Gunship : “Some folks are born made to wave the flag…”
Battle droids : “Why do I hear boss music…?”
@@tam2237 “I love the smell of burning plasma in the morning…”
@@tam2237 If I could pin this comment, I would, but subcomments are not pinnable, for some stupid-assed reason.
@@SacredCowShipyards let’s sue UA-cam
I did immediately think of Hinds when I saw Attack of the Clones.
*fistbump*
Holy crap you're right🤦♂️I can't believe I didn't see it.
LoL
Me too.
Been inside a Hind.... the troop comparment is CRAMPED. the LAAT is spacious compared to a hind though 😂.
Also The main Canon is a Beast. It pretty much runs the entire lenght of the Gunship. Like an A-10 with rotary wings.
Yep, me too. Especially since it hadn't been too long since I'd seen real HIND-Ds at JRTC at Fort Polk when I saw this movie the first time
"A Hind D?! Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing here?"
"And how do I get one of my own?"
@@SacredCowShipyards Especially after you shot it down with a FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS using the power of your TV's stereo sound.
“This is Morpho arriving shortly at LZ!”
"Oh no! It's the federation!"
"The trade federation?!"
"No! Worse! The Russian federation!!"
@@notgraham.7215 Everybody expects the Russian Federation.
“If it notices you, it’s really gonna fuck your face”
Me: “where’s that link to throw this man some money”
Love the way you describe stuff! Don’t ever change!
If you insist ;)
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@@SacredCowShipyards "Squishies" - chuckle.
@@Nyet-Zdyes It is accurate enough though. Ever seen what a 50+ g burn does to a human's body? Or a sudden dead stop from orbital velocities? It ain't pretty.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 Jelly or jam? Paste?
@@Nyet-Zdyes somewhat chunky paste. Yes.
Fun fact: In a featurette for SW EPII, John Goodson, the designer of the LAAT mentioned that the doors were used as airbrakes. It could be seen when banking, landing, or accelerating during Battle of Geonosis.
Explains the slatting in them, too.
@@SacredCowShipyards it also doubles as gun ports to allow the troopers inside to fire out.
This is a ship that knows EXACTLY what it is built to do.
Go in HARD and Fast, GUNS BLAZING, and get a bunch of really mean and angry friends to the fight as fast and safely as possible, and the best way to get them there alive is to kill as many of the guys shooting at you as possible.
There is a third helicopter inspiration. The Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane. It looks like the great-grandpappy of the AT-TE carrier variant, the LAAT/c.
excellent point!
The S-64 was also mentioned when describing the "Space: Above and Beyond" troop transport/carrier, it's not unlikely to have been the inspiration for multiple underslung-bodied carriers
Having had my fair share of LAAT deployments and even more evacs, I can absolutely confirm that the pilots do, in fact, have Fortunate Son on their playlists.
The LAAT/I is probably one of the most armed fucking things in Star Wars short of a proper capitol ship. It is kinda absurd...and considering that the (I)nfantry variant is the primary variant that says a lot. Because it has the (C)arrier variant, the (S)tealth variant, a variant for low-orbital drops, a variant for boarding actions, a variant for use as a command element, and a specialized variant used by the Republic's police forces. This isnt even including the three other vehicles built off of its idea and chassis and its predecessor.
Its absurd and i love it to death.
Also you forgot the fact that is has self-guided proton torpedoes under each wing. 10 per LAAT.
Another note, some variants also have in-built turrets of various weapon systems. And i mean in the troop bay itself.
Its like the sherman. Its more cost effective to build a mass produced chassis that can be modified for multiple uses.
@@robertharris6092 Only with a dozen less variants and less funny ones.
Don't forget that the K-Wing exists in Legends and that is just a Space A-10...
To note, anytime Star Wars uses the word “laser” they don’t mean an actual laser with the exception of the Death Star superlaser. It’s a generalised term in the universe that gets used for blaster weapons, typically this is in reference to spacecraft and vehicular weapons. For example, your typical “laser” cannon or “turbolaser” is actually just a plasma cannon. With the composition of the plasma dictating its colour such as ionised plasma being blue and somehow better at fighting droids.
Even the death star didn't use a laser. It uses an energy beam made with kyber crystals
@@jchoneandonly Death Star was unique in that it was actually just a hyper-powerful laser rather than anything else. Kyber crystals were the only focusing crystal they could find that didn't just shatter upon firing while focusing each beam. Compared to a blaster or other "laser" weapons in the universe which use blaster gas, of which Tibanna Gas, is the highest quality and excite the gas particles with a laser then package and fire the resulting plasma. All without a focusing crystal. Whereas we know the superlaser required rather large crystals to properly focus all that energy.
The composite beam laser on the LAATs, the anti-ship beam artillery walkers, and the Death Star fire particle beams. Just like blasters, lasercannons and turbo lasers a real laser is used as part of the firing mechanisms.
@@jlokison idk about the smaller ones but at least according to the Disney cannon it uses massive kyber crystals to generate the beam. Could be particle but either way it's using the same tech as lightsabers.
to be fair "ionized plasma" is redundant. Plasma by definition is just any gas that is ionized. :)
The Marines still fly Hueys and Cobras, though the Y and Z versions sadly have four bladed rotors now... more power, more maneuverability, sure, but the psychological effect... you didn't need to see them, you just had to hear that WHOP-WHOP-WHOP-WHOP-WHOP sound and you damn well KNEW it wasn't the Army coming for you. You were not going to be that lucky. It would soon be over, and you would NOT enjoy it.
First time I saw the LAAT, I half expected to hear a rework of Fortunate son playing.
I mean it was RIGHT THERE, just BEGGING for it.
I can tell you from experience that the Hind D commands a lot of respect on the battlefield. I remember we were in Diwaniya and a Polish Hind flew over our convoy. There was a tense moment as the defence systems on the Hind realized that all of our Bradley barrels were pointed at them. 😂🤣😅
Oh well what else are you supposed to do when you see a Hind. Answer...run.
Lucky they neglected to armor the tail.
I'm not disagreeing with what OP said, but frankly I am thinking of something else whenever I see one of these...
"What is that?" "Blue light." "And what does it do?" "It turns blue."
@@ranekeisenkralle8265
I'm reminded the time when I told a helicopter crew chief that there was hydraulic fluid leaking from the ceiling of his Chinook. He replied "Good! That means we have Hydraulic fluid! Let me know if it stops leaking!"
@@camerongunn7906 That one made me laugh - thank you for that. I wish more things were so ridiculously overbuilt that a loss of hydraulic fluid is but a minor inconvenience.
@@camerongunn7906 I'd laugh but I had a C-130 cargo master tell me the same thing
In universe, The gunship pilots were considered one of the best of the best pilots of the republic also they are considered notorious do to their daredevil like behavior .
As a guy who flies LAATs in an Arma 3 unit, I have it hotkeyed on my soundboard.
Which unit?
Another helicopter that is worth a look at when considering the LAAT is the only other contender for the 'Assault Helicopter' label, the Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk (not to be confused with the Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk, I guess they really liked the name). It's intended operational profile was very similar to what the Hind ended up being, though it never ended service.
Not the ‘only other’. The S-67 is considered an attack helicopter, similar to the Huey Cobra or AH-64 Apache, rather than Assault. The Army’s MH-60L and MH-60L DAP aircraft are considered Assault assets. MH-6 little birds and AH-6 killer eggs were/are also assault platforms in their own right, or could be part of a larger assault package. MH-47s bring the heavy assets. I flew air assaults on the USAF MH-53M; I can confirm that Fortunate Son was on our playlist, along with Hendrix’s (Dylan’s) All Along The Watchtower. Also Disturbed’s Down With The Sickness and, for some reason, Georgia Satellites made the list
@@beejay7665 The S-67 was interesting. It could be configured either as an Attack platform or as a transport., though how much it could do at once is something that I don't think anyone ever figured out, given the program was axed after the prototype crashed.
I'm not sure I'd place either the Little Bird or the MH-60L DAP in the same category as the Hind, they're both utilities with guns strapped on (arguably scout =utility with the MH-6 admittedly). The truth of the matter is, the Hind's a uniquely Soviet design, made with Soviet doctrine in mind. There was never really a need for an equivalent machine in the west, not because of capability, but because NATO doctrine didn't have a requirement for such a helo.
@@malusignatius Agreed; the Hind’s combo of extensive armament and troop insertion capability were unique, and the Star Wars gunship definitely draws from its role and aesthetic. The U.S., in its air assault role, builds an assault package utilizing different airframes with different capabilities tailored to the objective. We could put a large force on the ground very quickly, either landing or roping in, but our weapons were defensive only and we would usually have air cover. We were also too big for urban environments, where the MH-6 & AH-6 excelled.
Once in a while Star Wars presents us with a beautiful design like this. I love Star Wars but most ships are not nearly as great as these.
This craft is a mix of everyone's favorite combination, military industrial complex and unlimited expense account.
you forgot the 12 dumbfire rockets (4 on each wing, 2 on each door) the early variants had, dropped to 8 with the space capability block upgrade
Plus the drone controlled turrets on each wing...
It's the angry space child of a Huey and a Hind... FEAR IT
Funn fact: The republics vehicles weren't designed to be bulletproof but rather to be able to continue operating even after multiple shots have penetrated the vehicle
Another example that may be similar to the LAAT is the UH-60 Arpía, basically a Black Haw modified to have havier weaponry and still carry troops successfully.
Reminder, this thing is roughly the size of an IRL C-130, in length, and can carry an entire platoon
ACTUALY, it could NOT carry an entire platoon worth. its offical carry Capacity in terms of INfantry was 30 People(plus a Speeder/30 KG of Cargo) and a paltoon was 36 Troopers
@@weberman173 So close...
The LAAT is by far my favorite Gunship/Troop Transport design in all of sci-fi, glad to hear you saw it the same way!
Not only did the LAAT have thick armor, it also had shields that surrounded the vessel, and as such you have this armed to the teeth, 360 shooting, face fucking, tank unloading transport that you actually have to get through a shield in order to do any damage
The fact that I can just hear them in my head without effort is a testament to their sheer awesomeness.
When SW still cared about making ANY kind of sense before ordital Bombers ... Prequels looking pretty freaking good now
The LAAT/c is my favorite of the variants, the ability to drop a walker almost anywhere is extremely useful
I'm glad you liked the LAAT as its one of favourite craft from Star Wars, I'm not sure why but I've always loved military transports, anyone ever play Planetside 1? I was mainly a Galaxy pilot in that :)
Which outfit were you in?
Never got to play 1, but I still played 2 from time to time.
This is basically what you get when you combine an A-10 and a troop carrier.
The LAAT: A Rare instance of a well designed, practical vessel in a universe when practicality and ergonomics do not exist
It's really interesting to note that the bulk of the ships internals, and other nonsense that it needs to function, are all positioned on top of it. The side facing away from groundfire sources.
Totally Agree this time . The LAAT does look like something that WOULD work reliably and be relatively CHEAP to produce .
So, are they still ‘low-altitude’ after they’ve been upgraded to operate in space..?
Names are funny things to change.
No there is a variant designed for space operations and low-orbital insertions. Also Low-Altitude is relative considering its Repulsor based and can be environmentally sealed to be deployed from the break between space and atmosphere.
Clone trooper armor is self contained space capable suits. They are low altitude as they can operate in low altitude, they were just changed to be able to operate in space more effectively.
The “space operation” is kinda a misnomer, it can only maneuver in space or decent to a planet it lacks the ability to leave orbit.
@@handsomerob1223 Yeah there is nothing ever seen of them leaving any planet. That usually falls to another kind of shuttle or an Acclamator.
I enjoy that there's like not really anything negative on it's design as it all makes sense.
I'd be remiss as a Russian if I didn't point out that 'hind' is not the official name of it, but just a NATO reporting word. If you wanted something more contemporary, we call them 'Galina' flying tank, Crocodile, or weirdly enough; 'drinking glass.'
Honestly now you got me wondering how many other things from Russia are named incorrectly when it comes to military hardware
@@angelshadow990 Literally all of them; Hollywood never does research, and assumed the NATO reporting names are the endemic names. I have not once seen a peice of western media that gets the names right on any piece of Russian or Soviet hardware right.
A lot of it also doesn't have a name, perse; Russians are pragmatic overall, and don't give fancy names to their hardware... Most of it ends up with insulting names from the troops because of odd shapes, or bad design flaws. EG: a certain tank who's autoloader was notorious for mangling the gunner's arm got the nickname of 'arm eater.'
There was also a bomber who's onboard AC used pure ethanol, the crews would try to use the AC as little as possible and then skim the ethanol off to sell it as booze since they were not paid well by the Soviet union. That got the plane called 'booze carrier' and 'flying bar.' But none of those names are official; unlike the US naming planes, tanks etc.
"Drinking Glass"?
I feel like there *must* be a story behind that
@@UNSCPILOT It's something about the cockpit windows being similar to a drinking glass. It's one of those weird names grunts come up with for stuff, like 'bazooka' which is a strange sort of trombone that was popular in the American south. If you look at the musical instrument versus the weapon named after it; the similarity is only vague at best.
I'd also argue that the ball turrets on the doors area call back to the B-17 flying fortress, notably the belly ball turret which you could only get in after the plane took off, and once you got in one you had to be let back out by another crew member, so god help you if you needed to bail out of the plane. It also was eventually scrapped, because while it wasn't the most dangerous position (I believe that was the waist gunner IIRC), it was the position where if anything went wrong you'd be giving everyone else PTSD after they hosed you out of the ball turret and buried you in a jam jar
Technically, in a pinch the Romanian Puma SOCAT is also an Assault Helicopter, since it's a coversion of the transport variant and it retains the crew cargo space but as it wasn't purposely built for it it's very likely not very good at carrying troops, the 'gunship' systems and weapons at the same time. Still better than trying to evac ppl by having them hang on to the landing gear.
i recently had a discussion with a scifi writer about what space military craft systems would look like. i told him to just copy what the military is doing. go to an air show at your local afb and look at everything, and then adapt it to the rigors of space. this ship is a good example of that.
You forgot some more weapons- it often packs air to air missiles mounted under it's "wings". And sometimes on the inside, on those sliding doors (which can be a design flaw that can blow up your troops so better fire those quickly)
This was one of my favorite ships in Star Wars. Perhaps one of the best.
One additional likely ancestor... if you squint just a little, the air intakes of the CH-53 helicopter are kinda like big conical things pointing forward above & behind the cockpit(s)... But yeah, the LAAT is basically a mutated Hind. :-)
My understanding of the Hind was for Russian Spec Ops kill missions as well as ground support. Clear its own LZ in a hot area fast deploy of crazy, highly trained and heavily armed Russian troops. Who then have there own dedicated fire support. Seems to be what the idea was it was just to much multi role of one airframe. Probably to work in 2s with 8 to 12 troops in the hold.
I wonder if the Bradley design team was in charge of the troop bay design?
Due to the large number of variants on the base LAAT design, the troop bay tends to change. Sometimes it can hold a dozen clones, sometimes it can hold 40. Sometimes it has seats, sometimes just handles. Sometimes it has four speeders, sometimes two AT-RTs, sometimes it has an entire fucking command post inside. It depends. The Carrier variant is interesting because it has a system where it can carry pre-fab things in specialized designed crates so it can just drop and leave. Think the Chinook had a poly relationship with a Hind and an AC-130 and a Flying Fortress.
Thats the LAAT.
You forgot about the under wing mounted missiles... I also heard a rumor that on some models the whole cockpit can like just rocket off from the rest of the ship.
7:35 those are not wings, those are weapon holders, otherwise it wouldn't have enough space for all the armaments XD
They are technically wings as they do provide some lift and slightly help with fuel efficiency
@@Palora01 i know, i was making a joke ;)
@@Palora01 it's why the Hind is so friggin fast. The stubs unload the rotorhead, reducing the coning angle at high speed and increasing the main rotor efficiency.
The stubs on the Apache do much the same thing but to a far lesser extent because the Apache was designed as a pop-up dedicated attack aircraft that would spend WAY more time at very low altitude and VERY low speed than the Hind.
In truth, the Hind handles like a bus, so while the Apache (and Cobra, Tiger, Rooivalk, Mangusta, and even the KA50 and Mi-28) can duck behind something to break line of sight, the Hind survives by screaming in at absurdly high speed for a helicopter, blowing away whatever is in front of it, and hauling ass out the other side before anyone can get a lock on it.
That's the idea, anyway.
@@ERAUsnow that was idea. The realitily was. Damn thing was built like a flying tank and was pain in the ass to shoot down. If you couldn't hit it in the tail rotor with something heavy
@@sethgilcrist8088 Hind isn't that heavily armored. Certain bits like the transmissions and cockpit are armored against 12.7mm AP, but a lot of its survivability comes from the massive empty space below the transmission.
The Chinook kinda has the same feature. That big empty space is a nice target, but it doesn't have anything vital in it, so if something RPG-ish hits the cabin, it probably wouldn't do anything to the drive train.
The intakes on the LAAT is actually concussion missiles if memory serves
Or near that place they have such in a rotary revolver type magazine.
Good Soldiers Follow Orders.
And have slick rides.
Good Soldiers dont follow illegal orders
@@kentlangres2879 Only with control chips in their head.
The thing i like the most about the LAAT is that somehow it fits in universe despite being something that has no business existing in the Star Wars universe - a completely rational military vehicle that looks like it's something that would exist in a real futuristic military.
I think the people who made those helicopters used a time machine to go into the future and saw the LAAT gunship and made something like it in real life
I think you mean the past, as Star Wars took place long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
George Lucas might not have been the only one on Earth to find a copy of the Book of the Whills.
Ah, yes, the Hind, the “Flying Tank”
A good landing is one you walk away from. A great landing is one where you can use the aircraft again
One thing that I'd like to add about Attack Helicopters: The reason for the gunner being sat up front, and the pilot in back is simple: Visibility. Both crew members need to be able to see what's around them with minimal blockage. To achieve this, the pilot is placed higher, and to the rear behind the gunner, who in turn gets the best field of view since his/her job in that seat is to scan for and engage threats. After all... in that envelope, the time from threat appears to the sudden and rapid disassembly of critical parts of your helicopter are measured in seconds... any delay in that envelope means death.
Just a side note about when you were talking about the hind, helicopters of such large sized often tend to wings like that, and a lot of combat helos who might not need wings get them anyways for additional weapon mounts
It wouldn't surprise me if the concept artists just looked at pictures of different attack helicopters as a inspiration for the LAAT
1:40 I didn't notice until just now, but I wonder if the underside view of the LAAT is where they got the inspiration for the Porg.
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I just found this Shipyard ... just awsome ^^
Welcome to the madhouse.
You should convert those ships into dodecahedrons, specifically platonic solids, for better storage capacity and strength while doing so.
"Any ship left on the dock will be compressed to a cube"
Guess the Borg have nothing to worry about then
I'm glad you drew comparisons with the Mi-24 Hind, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw the Republic Gunship. Armoured, heavily armed and full of infantry. The double bubble cockpit can't have been accidental
Almost definitely not.
Love it, but you did forget ONE part of the armament, it also carries 4 rockets under each wing like a WW2 attack plane
You forgot the 4 AA missiles under each wing. Also in the 2003 clone wars series it can drop radio fused grenades from a bomb-bay in the bottom.
When the clones in your LAAT have only one line and they aren’t a main character:Hehe I’m in danger.
“It seems that a few of you are sufficiently masochistic to pay me…” beautiful 😂
I always loved gunships or lil helicopter like vehicles. Especially this one and the Falcon from Halo Reach
4:44 This bad boi: (slaps roof) can fit over 30 troops.
I gotta say man I LOVE what you do, I am actually inspired to maybe try re-designing some of the stinkers you've broken down to make them more logical! :D Keep it up!
Be sure to let me know what you come up with :).
This channel is basically what happens when you combine Space Dock with The Black Pants legion.
Breaking down ships with a whole lot of spite. I love it.
I really wish writers of science fiction would do some military research and figure out what works and what doesn't.
But this ship did it right.
And the best part is that they did it in a distinctively stylistic way. It's not just a shapeless blob, it stands out, and you see it coming.
@@SacredCowShipyards Very true. I mean it is fiction powered by magic so I understand why some writers and designers just forget about utility and logic when designing ships. It is supposed to be cool and look good on camera, not exactly be realistic.
But it adds a certain level of believability and immersion when ship, tank and other weapon designs have a degree of thought and realism put into them. Allows you to suspend your disbelief a little better.
With some science fiction shows I just completely lose immersion at times when I see a really stupid design that makes zero sense.
Like the Base stars from BSG.
The only bad thing about a LAAT is it's complete lack of shields
A soon as I saw that title I immediately thought of Darkness on Umbara, and the edit somebody did with CCR blasting in the background of the opening landings.
FWIW: When the Hind helicopter was developed, Soviet military doctrine as I understand it -- and I am certainly NOT an expert on the subject -- required that a helicopter perform multiple functions, and not just be a dedicated attack helicopter. That is why this aircraft became an _"assault helicopter."_
Late in the Soviet era -- or in post-Soviet era Russia -- dedicated attack helicopters were developed.
Funny thing, it has even more weapons. It has a set of around 8 anti air missiles/bombs under the wings
Can confirm they did in fact have fortunate son playing and ready to die by Andrew .
I was thinking more "Ride of the Valkaries"
So the LAAT is what you get, when you put a Hind and Huey in the same hangar shut the doors dim the lights and put Barry White on repeat overnight.
Props for the Krombopulous Micheal reference in the thumbnail.
I looked at the title and was like your so right...
im really happy I stumbled onto this video... because this was a really interesting video on a really interesting sci-fi vehicle that as a kid captured me in a very special way, also the title, your bits of humor, and the very fun way you avoid some... "specific" topics was all really nice icing on the cake that was this video. Thanks, subbed, and I wish you well, both in and out of a youtube channel.
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure someone looked at a paperclip and be like: "That would be the Clone Trooper's transport ship".
"A LAAT/i? Colonel, what's a Republic Gunship doing on Alsakan?"
Gotta love that Krombopulus Michael reference.
Battle of umbara was Star Wars Vietnam the opening scene was incredible
Glad to see someone also just wants to talk about the LAAT
Security team here can we ask the dock master to buy some LAAT I'm getting real sick of trying to take down space Marines on the ground
Ee-ruh-kwaa, David Hayter did you dirty teaching you to say it Ear-a-koi.
"Get to the [huey]!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Said no one who has an emergency dust off
ILM modelers had a proclivity for kit-bashing model kits (mostly military vehicles). Colin Cantwell, one of the OT conceptual modelers, posted some photos of the 1975 pre-production models on "the cantina".
If you have a good eye for vintage plastic-crack you can pick out individual portions of each kit:
Slave I: Tamiya 88mm Flak Gun, Tamiya 20mm Flakvierling 38, Airfix Harrier.
Falcon: Airfix Saturn V Rocket, Tamiya Matilda Tank, Tamiya 20mm Flakvieling 38, Fuman Panter G Porsche
The propmaker forums have compiled vast lists in their quest to recreate the original models from the original scratch kits.
Side note the Walker's (ATTE) also can carry up to 10 to 20 troopers insu
Inside*
my favorite ship of all time in Star Wars
They are literally Hinds Combined with Huey's and they kick fucking ass
An “udder” beast, you say?
Re: @4:28
A good landing is one you can walk away from.
A GREAT landing is one where you can use the craft again after.
I couldn't stop laughing my ass or saying in that guy's voice... "oh boy, here I go killing again" "I'll kill anything. Women, children, pets... I just loooove killin"
...and Paint it Black...
Hell, they even launch through a red Door!
Hello Mil-24,
such a plesure geting introduced to you.
There is no shortage of fan videos with LAAT gunships flying around with Fortunate Son playing in the background.
My ideas are rarely original.
@@SacredCowShipyards Clone Wars fans love to put that song on almost any battle. Mandalore? Geonosis? Umbara? Done and done.
I just had an incredibly stupid idea pop into my head that might make little enough sense to be true. I think that the 'composite lasers' use multiple, smaller lasers and use some kind of magnetic field (or whatever space magic is necessary) to bend all of the smaller lasers together into one, then direct it in a straight line. As for why they use several small lasers? Cooling. A larger laser would take a substantial coolant system that, should it fail, may cause your ball turret or definitely-not-a-small-moon to turn into a boiling irradiated soup in a way similar to a nuclear meltdown. However, if there are several smaller lasers each with their own coolant systems they can be more easily managed and maintained. Additionally, if one of the smaller lasers fails you can still fire the composite laser, only at a weaker power than before, until all of the lasers are functional again.
Ok, so, yes, that could be a thing.
But, first, the cooling requirements for all of the subsidiary lasers will total to the same requirements as if you had just had a single laser that had the same output sum of all the mini lasers.
BUT WAIT.
Now you're factoring in the /additional/ heat of whatever majikery that it takes to composite all of these various, off-angle laser beams into one, coherent - because it's a laser after all - beam thing.
And... yeah. I'm just going to go ahead and guess that last thing probably generates more heat than all the lasers combined.
@@SacredCowShipyards But there is one thing remaining, if I remember correctly. Lightsabers use a similar technology to control the length of their saber blades, which probably means the composite lasers could use the same devices. As for why you would bother making it a composite laser? Still no solid ground, maybe it would be less likely to kill the gunner if only one laser somehow misfired. But as for why the side guns were abandoned it was probably too taxing to train that many specialized gunners in the pilot program.
@@witherwolf3316 Ehhhh... lightsabers use those khyber crystal things, which even the runs-on-magic universe admits are functionally magic, soooo... I doubt the Old Republic had the budget for two of those on each LAAT. The Empire could barely scrape together what they needed for the two Death Stars.
Yeah, that's fair.
@@SacredCowShipyards I think you are wrong on that one, it takes time for heat to be conducted based on the material, so the centre of whatever emits the laser would be cooler if split up because you would have the same cross sectional area but a higher surface area.
Laat is the halo pelican of the star wars universe.
It's so much better.
Well... Almost all "Blaster" type weapons are more Plasma than Laser... They even use Ionized Gas as Ammo