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The Star Wars Gozanti Cruiser seriously is, as far as I can tell, the 'verse's equivalent to a Toyota Hilux. It's everywhere. It's used for everything. It can carry a decent amount. And you can mount ALL KINDS OF ENTERTAINMENT to it.
Plus it has a fun name.
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Four TIE Bombers would actually fit. Two of them would just have to be rotated to be facing the opposite direction.
Could even be a benefit in doing so as the backward facing ones could take a different path from the other two for pincer maneuvers or forcing the target to not put all shields in one facing.
That's true in terms of space, but not necessarily weight/mass-a bomber is a hell of a lot heavier than a fighter.
@windwalker5765 you did see it carrying the AT-ATs right?
@@epleprekahnYeah, true enough.
@@windwalker5765 While that is fair, TIE fighters and TIE bombers clearly are able to levitate themselves already, and the Gozante has demonstrated itself as being more than capable of carrying AT-AT walkers, which are heavier and don't have repulsorlifts boosting them and lowering their weight.
In Star wars Squardons, when you play as an Inperial during the Campaign, you are almost always dropped off by a Gozanti when the SSD isnt present for the Battle. Its really smooth too, from the Gozanti dropping out of Hyperspace, over dropping the Squadron, to the Gozanti re-entering Hyperspace, theres maybe 10 Seconds of Time.
The C-130 of Star Wars that you don't want to mess with when it is heavily armed.
The C-119, if that.
The Gozanti is a fantastic little transport.
If the Empire only expanded on the idea the Rebels would never have had a chance
Two of the ones that only really exists in the old X_Fighter games (X-wing, Tie and X-wing v Tie) and in the OG Star Wars Rebellion strat/tactical game. They would if expanded upon, *completely rout the rebels* were the Imperial Strike Cruiser and the Imperial version of the Nebulon B Frigate.
The Imperial Nebulon B, in those games, is an escort carrier designed to attach to fleets, or frankly handle entire planets on its own, as its entirely designed to make life hell for enemy starfighters. It had a decent screen of medium turbolaser turrets(12), and another 12 laser cannon turrets, *AND* carried the gear to look after, launch, recover and maintain 24 starfighters. And it can carry a few medium freighters(so, multiple gozanti class) to boot.
No wonder Thrawn liked to tool around in one of those, looks relatively innocuous, but punches *way* above its weight.
Then you have the Strike Cruiser, which is functionally about quarter of the armaments and load of an ISD, *but a tenth of the cost*
Hahaahaha, you joking right? Because in Rebels we see it get abused all the time. That's one of the many reasons i hate Rebels. Like, there is no weapon the Empire could develop that would defeat a random small group of miserable untrained Teenagers.
@@authentic229.14It was not a well-made show on the vehicle-combat end of things.
Worth noting, this is something a lot of people have brought up though: if the Empire had just kept turning out warships instead of Murder Moon passion projects, they could never have been militarily challenged in *any* meaningful way.
Palpatine just wasn't really thinking in fully coherent terms by the end there.
@@Pyre That always made sense to me. He thinks like a sith lord not an effective emperor. He is entirely focused on the jedi, his mortal enemies, and causing fear, in accordance to the sith creed. He would sacrifice a good chunk of the empire if it meant wiping out a group of jedi survivors. A horde of small anti-fighter ships may be great for patrolling empire space, but it just doesn't have that sith pazazz that a star destroyer does.
@@authentic229.14 Right? Or how we see and Arquitens Command Frigate downed by 2 proton torpedoes, or how the gravity well generator gets taken out by blaster pistols and jet pack rockets, along with a Venator sized Interdictor Cruiser, despite being deployed on a warship meant to fare against turbolasers that can exceed an X-Wing in length. The Ghost crew being able to boarder, outmaneuver, and outwit the 30,000+ crew and complement of and ISD causing critical damage or outright destruction, makes one wonder why the entire Rebel force on Yavin didn't just attempt the same with the Death Star.
Rebel sees Gozanti class with AT-AT’s bolted to it cresting a mountain: *fortunate son starts playing*
HEL YEAH AMERICA
To note, Tie fighters are typically stored on ceiling racks in Imperial hangars with access provided by a gantry. When landing on the ground or a landing pad they land next to a gantry to allow the pilot to get in and out easily.
I have a friend who was in Iraq during and just after Desert Storm. He wasn't in combat (that came later) but spent his tour driving Generals around in Humvees. He came back on leave and we had a lovely discussion about how much he hated the Humvee. He said they were okay, if underpowered and fragile, out in the open desert. However they were useless in the towns because they were all too big for the narrow little streets designed for camels and carts. Do you know what's _not_ too big for the narrow little streets? A Toyota Hilux. He talked about begging his commander to get him a few Jeep Cherokees that would fit in the little streets, where cheaper than a Humvee, easier to work on, had better fuel economy, and were arguably tougher. No dice. So he got out, went ROTC, liked it, and is now a Colonel somewhere with his own driver.
Depends on the war I guess. The Brits made that excuse with the land cruisers in Afghanistan, but those were rolling death traps in that war...
Something something IEDs make soft skin vehicle and it's contents into shrapnel...
@@Hebdomad7 The Humvee isn't hardly any more resistant to IEDs than any other vehicles, which is why the US developed the MRAP. They're larger and taller than the Humvee, but not much wider. You can armor up a Humvee but that further degrades its performance. That said, MRAPs have their own problems, among which is cost. Pretty much any vehicle in a combat zone is a rolling death trap if your enemy is well armed. In some respects a foot soldier is safer.
ironic sicne the Himvee was the replacement forthe Jeep
So the guy was begging for a vehicle to be brought in that had 0 logistical presence? Seems like a really smart thing to do.
Probably should have asked for a CUCV or an LSSV depending on the exact time frame, I mean those were already in inventory.
@@Hebdomad7The Humvee was never supposed to see any serious action. It was supposed to shuttle troops and supplies around FOBs and other secure areas.
Okay but that still image of the Gozanti ferrying AT-ATs somewhere is actually terrifying by itself. Easily one of the most chilling shots I've seen in the franchise.
Turning that nightmare into a way to make the AT-AT an *aerial weapons platform* , presumably for use on some poor bastards without any meaningful anti-armor equipment, is...that's the kind of moment where the despair hits too hard to even *get* to hopeless before you immolate.
Tarkin doctrine working then
they should just permenantly weld the things on and lop the legs off, turn her into a gun ship
Considering the AT-AT can carry 40 troops each, you could potentially be dropping two platoons in addition to the heavy armor. So you could see the AT-AT clearing the area with the cannons and then immediately dropping soldiers once unlatched from the cruiser.
I think you could argue that the dish is a giant antenna array for a synthetic aperture system.
Which is...radar, not SIGINT or ELINT.
the dish reminds me of ncc1701 and derivatives
That's still active, not passive.
It probably scans using something that's not in realspace, not RADAR- we're looking at fictional instruments that use hyperspace to detect the passage of ships. It's not exactly an affront to the viewer to use a recognizable design language to communicate something about the craft, especially when there's plenty of unspecified technology at work within that familiar structure. Maybe actively scanning hyperspace is indistinguishable from passively receiving signals, but regardless assuming the inspiration from real-world tech means it functions identically in the fictional context it's a stand-in for is a bit silly even as far as geeking out about fictional pieces of hardware goes.
I can imagine the Imperial Gozanti-s project management-s pitch meeting. When the Imperial navy logistics department was told that they are going to implement the use of these.
- Thank the force, finally someone heard our woes and we are going to use ships that are not overengineered expensive crap costing waay to much for how little it does.
- Don`t make me call the ISB officer, Dissing the Victory will no longer be tolerated, now, we will need a couple of variants, most importantly, ones that can carry fighters.
- Surprisingly smart for once, now, any other modification on the main variant?
- Yes, we are going to remove most of the guns.
....
- Okay, seriously, are we actually trying to lose any potential conflict in the future???
I have always liked this ship since it appeared in Rebels. It is like you took a LCU, scaled it up so it could cross oceans, then mounted a Bofors 57mm and a M2 on it and then you decided that was not enough so you built an intelligence ship version and one with temporary landing pads for tail-sitter fighters.
But it first appeared in Episode 1.
The Gozanti cruiser could be the "russian trawler" of the Star Wars universe. Cover it with antennas and fill it up with tons of electronics and you could have a nice passive listening post.
The disk could be a *very* wide bandwidth, electrically steerable, antenna. The disk might reduce your plausible deniability, but the high gain might make up for that.
Good point actually. I wonder if AT-AT's could fire while strapped to that thing. And for the bombers, well.. 4 of em could in theory fit. They stick out to one side aye, but they dont both stick out to the middle
..BUT even so. When it comes to carrying walkers into combat I personally prefer the shuttle used in the (by now) old fanmade series "I.M.P.S: The Relentless"
that thing's pretty damn amazing. Not just 4 AT-AT's, but also 4 AT-ST's to scout for their respective walkers. 6 pilots, and supposedly a medical bay on board as well for any injured troops that make it back to the lander
Old WEG materials, or even ESB concepts used brick like landing barges. Largest one with most sources could handle 4 AT-AT and double that of AT-ST, but was too large to fit into ISD hangar, so would require dedicated assault ship like in IMPS.
Firing the guns while the AT-AT is being held up by 2 docking rings and a tractor set-up would probably work out fine, but you'd really be putting your trust in the maintenance record of the Gozanti in question. And that's all assuming the legs aren't a major component of recoil compensation.
I like the idea of doing a strafing run with AT-AT's strapped to the underside.
@@MrZonehawk Make a specialised version. Remove the legs, keep the head and body. Add additional (ball) turrets to them.
Flying fortress.
@@shoulderpyro I believe that's called the CR90.
Oh my gosh, I never thought of a Gozanti KEEPING the AT-ATs docked... as forward arc flex mounted weapon systems!!!
Kind of the all-purpose Late Republic / Early Imperial support ships.
I first came aware of this ship due to the X-wing miniatures game, as the second largest Imperial ship in a game that focused on starfighters. On that scale, it really does feel like a solid dependable tank, hard to take down while reliably returning fire. They even designed it so your TIE fighters can physically attach to it (tho upside down lol) And in the Armada miniatures game, they are useful support vessels while the major warships pound each other.
Further, the C-ROC variant is the closest thing to a capital ship for the Scum and Villainy faction. Very similar, but with more underhanded/unconventional options instead of fighter-carrying. Love’m both
The Gozanti, the C-130 of Star Wars. The "short bed" model probably has better accelleration. Strip the guns off and pack passengers in like freight, and it's a short range people mover- the the 3.10 to Corellia, as it were. Add more guns, she's a potent but slow local space patrol craft ("bulk cruiser"?). Think about how big two AT-ATs are, then you realize one can sling load a small, prefabbed fortress, with two or three modules forming a center keep, with prefab walls all around, with the garrison carried inside. Yeah, half a dozen can drop off the force that keeps a city pacified. As for the elint version, that dish could a synthetic appature array, or you orient the ship perpendicular to the target- it is space, up-down is relative.
Synthetic aperture is _radar_...which is what the E2/E3 carry for AWACS, not SIGINT/ELINT missions.
@@CyphDragon It doesn't just apply to radar, although that is the one most people think of. There is synthetic aperture sonar - that is one of the ways they get such detailed sonar pictures of the ocean floor. It is also used in medical imaging - both ultra sound and CAT scans are good examples of this. Also, if you want to include passive systems, you could look at the various arrays of radio telescopes used in astronomy around the world.
@@TheCoffeehound ah yes, because sonar, medical imaging, and radio astronomy are all famously related to signals intelligence and military electronic warfare systems...
@@CyphDragon Apparently, you are too much of an idiot to understand that the same technique can be used for both military and non-military applications. Synthetic aperture refers to the theory, not the piece of equipment. In active systems, the emitter is moving to give a larger emissions area. In passive systems, the receiver can either be moving or there can be multiple receivers to gather signals over a wider area. In all cases, the signals are then processed to give a better image.
Now, just be a good little boy and take the L.
Eh, it's too small to be this 'verse's C-130. That'd be more like a Captor-Class or something like that.
In the x-wing books, wraith squadron used the escape pod ports on a CR90 to dock TIEs as well, when they were operating undercover, impersonating pirates. The thought of the Loran Spitball maneuver still makes me giggle.
At 13:40 or around there ... It's a giant four legged space chicken .
I have a Lego model of one of these in my room, I have upgraded with multiple Railguns, laser- and ion-canons/ turrets
I feel like the docking tubes on the bottom are magnetic so i could see it being used to carry just anything you could fit under it, even tie defenders if the pilots where already within the cockpits though they have their own hyperdrivers.
Oooh....use them to dropturbo tanks into battle.
I assume the cargo weirdness is because of the legally gimped engines such that, while you could fit 100 tons on board it wouldn't be able to take off
Disney has made me re-evaluate the idea of "canon" being determined by whomever just happens to fork over a pile of cash to own a copyright. Legitimacy can be earned or lost according to the quality of the works being published and fans can and will reject works of poor quality.
which is why nobody acknowledges the sequel trilogy.
As the sequels have proven with the VAAAST majority of the fan base just not acknowledging them as cannon
@@michaelsolomon3496It feels worth noting most of the actually good parts of everything Disney did with the IP, with the sole exception of the existence of one character, are derived from "Legends" anyway.
Rey and Kylo are alternate takes on Jaina and Jaicen, supported beautifully by their actors and failed utterly by the script around them. Basically everything to do with Leia. Every single beat of The Mandalorian is SO much the Expanded Universe that if you were alive and reading those books in the 90s it's a borderline out of body experience.
Disney the company doesn't *deserve* to be treated as if what it had the greatest hand in was legitimate. And the real, worthwhile human beings who put their effort into the films deserved better.
@@Pyre
Oh I absolutely agree, John Favero and Dave Filoni make great content.
Clone Wars, Bad Batch, Rebels, Mandolorian, Book Of Boba Fett, all phenomenal, and yes legends was great
(Which is why I have VERY high hopes for Thrawn in the Ahsoka series because I read BOTH of the Thrawn trilogies and loved them)
Also I really have been enjoying all the little tidbits from legends being brought back, like the death troopers, Luke's Jedi Academy, etc
@@michaelsolomon3496 Thrawn in Ashoka is an imbecile. Sorry to disappoint you but Disney is still high on progressivism (because the force is female...ffs).
The Empire always desperately needed some sort of micro carrier to allow ties to perform long distance patrols and the like. The Imperial Gozanti is a suprisingly elegant solution and i adore its hiddeous brickishness. :P
And in general its nice to actually see some military logistics in star wars media. It was always there in the background of legends suplimental matwrial but never made it to screen. But the Gozantini is everywhere... as, frankly, you would expect with versetile little utility transports.
The issue I have with these ships being used extensively by the Empire in Disney-cannon is that they break the Tarkington Doctrine. These ships make too much sense for the Empire to use.
The Empire was supposed to be spending all its resources on big, flashy, inefficient systems in order to project the illusion of overwhelming power (Star Destroyers, AT-ATs, Death Stars, etc). Using smaller, more effective vessels makes real-world sense, but it doesn’t align with how the Empire does things.
That has never really been the case, back in Legends they employed several frigates and corvettes to supplement their Star Destroyers and this was established in the same source book that introduced the Tarkin Doctrine. In reality the doctrine didn't call for ditching escorts and other classes in favor of larger ships, it called for pressing the advantage that ships like ISDs had of not only being pretty combat effective but also pretty damn scary to go up against while still maintaining fleets of smaller ships, this is why the Strike-Class cruiser was called "the best-kept secret of the navy" as it was a ship many times smaller than a Star Destroyer but it was so damn good that whoever happened to go up against it would be surprised by it's firepower because it was not as big as other ships, people would tend to underestimate it.
I imagine some people had to see the writing on the wall and pushed for cheaper, smaller ships that could cover more ground as one big flashy battleship, especially before the rebellion, as dealing with pirates and small pockets of CIS holdouts would have been their main job.
Tarkin Doctrine could never have been so totalizing, even Tarkin doctrine acknowleged the need for a localy present 'tripwire' force which would call down the hammer uppon any who resisted so that the fear is rational and omni-present. The Empire spent 'too much' on big weapons but not everything, the fact they have a fleet AND the DeathStar shows that. It is completly reasonable, infact unavoidable that some kind of smaller ship exists in their arsenal, particularly a small logistical ship. The Empire might be a comically centralized and exagerated fasistic dystopia but their are belivability limits to that centralization (or at least their WERE limits before the Sequel trilogy).
A pity for the Empire that they keep forgetting that missiles can be stacked into standard ISO containers. 'External container transport' and 'surprise missile delivery' are interchangeable terms in my tachyonic neck of the woods. So it's a little sad to see opportunities missed.
Yes, just yes to this comment.
We have only seen the IGV-55 in one episode of Rebels used by the ISB. In which not only were they listening to everything happening in a sector, they hacked a droid from outside the star system the droid was in.
It might have a couple sub variants, the ISB Listeners and an Imperial Navy Seeker. It's star wars dumb but same hard ware different analytics software and different types of crew could make a difference.
I have this insane vision of one of these toting a pair of AT-ATs just being an utter menace. Also with its rough curb weight of 100-2500 tons EACH, the Imperial Gozanti got a major upgrade in its hauling ability to move two of those things.
The carry-on ability, and how much armor she packs for her size are the impressive bits, honestly. Her armaments have man portable variants, and are quite weak. You'd need to "aquire" or "relocate" a trigger, a stock, and a Tabana tank, but at the end of the day you'd have a Star Wars version of the WW2 Stinger .30 cal. It took a surgery, and full week in the diaper tank, but I've had a character survive a close encounter with the non-vehicle varient of her nose gun during the same landing zone fiasco our pilot was desperately popping old Johnny Reb with the vehicle version. Thank the emperor for good medics, and computerized optics.
18:01 the radio dishes should be facing all six sides instead of just front.
The RC-135, you're right, is heavily classified... or it would be if the original design team at boeing didn't share details about the aircraft they were designing with their roommates, colleagues, their colleagues direct relatives and/or hand out toy miniatures & t-shirts featuring the aircraft while the aircraft was still in prototype testing back in 2012-2015. (Speaking from personal experience here as i still have the t-shirt featuring the prototype. It had a light-gray color to it with yellow stripes on its sides, as well as an angled yellow stripe detailing the top of its radar aperture.)
I miss the Toyota Truck-With-No-Name. It wasn't called a Hilux here in the states as I recall. But it was still a great little truck.
For a moment I seriously thought you were about to tell us they made an Interdictor out of this thing, spy freighter is much easier to accept XD
Now that you say that, that works weirdly well.
I mean the big issue with the interdictions were they were always painfully obvious, expensive, and energy intensive to the point it was hard to power offensive or defensive systems alongside the gravity well. Making a cheaper version that could be easier to hide or cover behind larger ships and wouldn’t cost you 15 million credits for every loss wouldn’t be too bad an idea.
Conversely it may not be possible to fit enough generators to power a gravity well generator, or even the gravity well generator itself, but to that I say: just use more.
For the price of an Interdictor-class you could have 75 Gozantis and even if they become 3 times more expensive when adding interdictor systems you could still have up to 25 Gozantis. Have them network, or dock if they carry different components like modern Air Defense systems do, and now you don’t just have more interdictors but now you have a flexible system that can handle losing parts and not have a single point in your fleet that can be disabled by “heroic sacrifice” ramming attacks and can be better shielded by SDs, fighters, corvettes, etc.
Even if you do lose some in this way, there’s plenty of other Gozantis to be converted into interdictors so replacements are plentiful and unless you lost over half your Gozantis your ability to interdict is at least partially functional.
That would be an interesting idea. Clearly the frame could only support one emitter, rather than the original four, but still.
I mean that many tractor arrays WOULD put a damper on the average starfighter velocity.
Anything else would likely just turn the turrets on you tho.
Another good example of a SIGINT/ELINT aircraft that my old squadron (VQ-2) used back in Desert Storm is the EP-3E ARIES......looks alot like the P-3 they use for hurrcane hunters but with domes and pods attached. That SIGINT version reminds me of that old bird.....spent lots of time in that and the even older EA-3B intel planes. And yeah, they are/were PACKED with gear, nose to tail! Always nice to hear from you DM. Great video. Haze grey and underway, my friend!!
Considering that the Gozanti class is an *official* military design rather than a civvy design some rebels strapped an old M-2 onto wouldn't it be more of a space-Jeep/Hummer?
I agree that the hilux analogy isn't the best, but I think the best analogy is a cargo plane like the C47 or C130. Where a military cargo transport and a civilian version both exist; the C47 being developed from the DC3 airliner, and the C130 spawning a civilian L100 variant.
I kind of think of it like a space Half Track. Rag on its unorthodox design all you want there was next to no gun you could put in the back of one.
The Gozanti name predates the Empire adopting it in Disney-'verse, and it's far too small to fill the equivalent role of a C-130 in either 'verse. That'd be more along the lines of a Captor-Class.
I find that, more often than not, the best, well thought out ships of Star Wars, aren't the hero ships or the front-line combatants you see all the time, it's the background ships that you can see cleanly enough to make out obvious details and what-not, but are unimportant enough to the plot that, whoever thought them up, had a fair bit more liberty to think out the ship's purpose alongside its design instead of having to meet a certain design for whatever needs the hero ship had to have.
I wonder how well one of these could do if modified to be a gunboat. Maybe strip the fighter dock points for turrets, add a mount point above and a bit behind the bridge or mounts on the port and starboard sections. Shure you would have to strip out some of the cargo space but if its just for local system defense it isn't going far from base anyway. Could be a good and cheap way to discourage small-scale raids into a system and something that could buy time for bigger ships to arive if a more serious incursion arrives, in such a case its mix of durability and firepower could allow a group of such vessels to be quite the prickly porcupine to all but the most overwhelmingly well armed invader.
Paint it all red and slap a swingline label on it and it would look perfectly at home on my desk.
I don't know if it counts as a technical, but my favorite sample of an improvised vehicle it's probably that big truck with the museum black powder cannon on it from the Syrian civil War.
I'm not really a Star Wars guy. I'm a Star Trek guy. Nevertheless, I found this video very interesting. There are some ships in Star Wars I like (YT-1300, YT-2400, A-Wing, Nebulon B Frigate and the Razorcrest)... and this ship might join them.
I'm a big fan of the raider class corvettes personally!
The thing I think the Gozanti would be best at is a small group of them forming a task force with larger ships, like the Arquitens light cruiser or full blown Star Destroyers. It can only carry 2-4 fighters, but the important part is the docking points backed up by a fairly large cargo capacity for a ship its size. They could serve as a forward fueling and arming point for a larger fighter force carried on the bigger ships.
Externally mounted fighters don't look like they can be re-armed with munitions like bombs or missiles, maybe fuel/liquids etc can be piped in but that's it. Their is clearly no routine maintence ability and I'd say that the TIE probably could not make more then a few hours of flight time before it would need to be moved to a larger ship to get a proper maintence cycle. In this they fighter carrying Gozanti would be a bit like the Aircraft transporter ships of WW2, they LOOK like carriers, but have basically none of the logistical functions that actually keep planes operational, just a landing spot and fuel. Most were used to just shuttle planes around as cargo.
@@kennethferland5579 Blaster ammunition is a compressed gas in the Star Wars universe. So reload guns, but not heavy ordnance. Unless there's like a reloading mechanism that comes out of a hatch inside the ship...
I'm just glad my ship was under warranty.
The Gozanti is great. Cheap to buy and fix up, endlessly modifiable, atmo-capable, big enough to carry plenty of supplies/passengers/troops, small enough to land practically anywhere, and tough as old boots. Unless you're planning to assault a Star Destroyer, a properly-outfitted Gozanti will do you just fine.
Eh, give me the right resources and I'll give that ISD a run for its money that it'll never see coming, even if I tell it before hand! (I love concussion missiles and Ion torpedoes, and a Gozanti could carry *a lot* of them, and we know you can slave multiple launchers to 1 targeting computer. Imagine an ISD "pulling over" a Gozanti, getting 1 target lock confirmation and then seeing an endless stream of hellfire come your way)
I love the Gozanti pocket-carrier. In my own little Star Wars fan-fiction universe, some Gozantis have been modified to carry six craft: 4 TIE fighters, 1 TIE bomber and 1 TIE boarding craft.
By using pretty much all the internal cargo space for additional berths and consumables, you can support the additional pilots, techs, and a second stormtrooper squad. And a rather small munitions store for the bomber.
Now the ship can do all sorts of the nickel-and-dime policing and patrolling typical of empires. They can patrol shipping lanes, escort merchant ships, carry out strikes on small dissident/resistance groups, conduct inspections of ships in space, and even board and seize offending vessels.
It always felt like something like the tramp steamer/articulated lorry of the Star Wars universe. I you should have seen what people have strapped to tramp steamers in war time (yes I know you covered Q Ships).
Heck they should make two space combat pods one for each side taking up two docks like the at-at s
...or one pod that just connects to all four couplings and pulls power from all the connectors. Less toasty couplings that way if you're just trying to fire the blasters on one side a lot.
I LOVE IT!! Leave the ATAT's attached and just OPEN FIIIRE! So cool! Thank you for the laugh.
I like this ship. I could see myself living in one of these ships, while traveling around the Star Wars universe, making money along the way and enjoying the sights.
Oh absolutely! The C-ROC variant/update is my personal choice.
@@earlware4322 like that one too that is an extremely good one.
I might be an odd one but this is my fav line of non-strike fighter type ship in the whole franchise
I wouldn't say the Gozanti is a Techincal, more of a C-130 of a freighter
No . In relative SIZE comparison , they're not that big . 60 metres length is Tiny in the Starwars Universe , they're a Technical for sure .
@@johncunningham4820 i wasn't exactly referring to the size...
Makes sense. A C-130 is less than 30 m long, with a wingspan of ~40 m, and a height of ~12 m, and also comes in the AC-130 gunship variant, can carry pallets for long range ALCMs for Rapid Dragon, or other munitions like Daisy Cutter, MOAB, or other pallet-based bombs, as well as recon and EW variants, hurrican hunter variants, refueling variants, and firefighting water tanker variants, as well as air-dropping Humvees and tanks.
C-130s have basically no civilian market and are definitely not armed in that market, even looking past the relative size differences. A C-130 equivalent in-'verse would be more akin to a Captor-Class.
@@SacredCowShipyards I think civilian airliners tend to be convertible to cargo carriers, so maybe that would fit, although I'm not sure which model is the most common since they're all variations on a theme. But now that I think about it, there have been proposals to adapt airliners/cargoliners so they can launch fighters or serve as bombers. So, could that mean the Boeing 7x7 family fit that role?
Transporting a ship by picking up its hatch is a very silly idea. You're expecting this seal to be vacuum tight, while also flexing in response to shifting weight under thrust, with the entire weight of a combat walker hanging from it instead of being supported from underneath?
Hatch is supposed to be opened while hanging there, so it's rather reinforced barbette around it, designed as pickup point.
This is a 'verse with tractor beams, atmosphere containment fields, and structural integrity fields.
Yeah.
It'll work.
AIUI, the term technical was a euphemism used by UN aid workers in the Somalia, early 90s, before the US intervention.
Since there were no UN troops on the ground, UN agencies providing aid in Somalia were paying local militias for security, and the budget line item was usually listed as "technical assistance". "Technical" became slang for the pickup trucks the militias roamed around in.
Another way to think of technicals: they're the current real life analog to the herbal mech, only faster and more agile.
I’ve always had an idea for my own Star Wars OC where my character is a rich spoiled kid from Coruscant turned smuggler and scoundrel and along with having an N-1 Naboo starfighter he also has a highly modified Gozanti cruiser. I think it would be great for a group of six to own and operate. I say highly modified because this guy would modify it to have an internal hangar that can house his N-1 along with some cargo and maybe an extra small ship, then he’d add on two extra engines, and then he’d get the most lucrative upgrade; a class 0.6 hyperdrive salvaged from an Acclamator. All the while streamlining the ship to be able to run with a smaller crew as stock these things require a crew of 12 to fully operate but he’s using half of that and even that’s towards the very end. Oh and of course add on highly illegal heavy weapons that can actually hold off the Imps.
Gotta admit, I laughed and love the idea of 2 at-at just being carried while shooting from the gozanti. Literally laying waste to everything in front of it. Bonus points if the gozanti pilot says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
The Micky Mouse ears on that thing, and it being a surveillance ship is not lost on me...
A little on the nose.
now that i think about it, the listening gozanti could carry 4 tie fighters as well right? Also i think 4 tie bombers do fit below a gozanti.
I have the lego set of this ship and I’ll say that she is a good looking ship, with very nicely integrated play features, including carrying and remote button dropping of the ties with one hand and holding the carrying handle of the ship with the other. Love the set, love the ship, one of my first picks if I ever go into space trucking
It makes sense at powers such as the Empire or CIS would use the Gozanti and its variants, a base model is probably more common than certain other Corellian freighters or corvettes and in the case of the Empire it's probably much cheaper to crew, arm, repair and dispatch a Gozanti than an Arquitens especially in the outer regions.
The Empire used these cruisers more than they used ISDs or Death Stars. Death Stars were necessary because a fully-shielded planet can just tell the Empire to go blow itself and all your small cruisers won't be able to do anything, while ISDs were made for slugging matches with large warships. Gozantis and light cruisers were the usual patrol ships that the Rebels fought, alongside Imperial Escort Carriers, Acclamators, Victory-2s, and Mandalorian-style Dreadnought-class Heavy Cruisers left over from the Republic days.
And here I thought the E2 Hawkeye was delivering gigantic pizzas to aircraft carrier crews.
I get funny looks from friends when I tell them the Gozanti is really the only SW ship I truly like in the 'bigger than a snubfighter but smaller than a Star Destroyer' cstegory.
Sacred cow shipyards thought you would want to know that they have also strapped a cannon to the back of one those trucks and it’s 100% operational
Dam the Time war must have hit Galifrays economy hard if they had to resort to using there shipyards to build low end frighters for export instead of TARDISs
Mmm intresting...how do you reuse tardis crèche for manufacture
OK, owner of the shipyard that crushed my ship into a cube.
I'll take one of those as compensation!
Make sure that the ship has a few hidden compartments.
You thought the YT tugs were bad freighters. Try this. Underslung cargo is terrible for its design especially since it's got terrible thrust power.
At least it's fast to load and unload
Per nu-Canon, they can put down ~1000kph in-atmo, and given that such vessels as Star Destroyers can pull in excess of 2000Gs of acceleration, it's fair to say the Star Wars 'verse has both inertial dampener tech but also structural integrity tech that is probably transitive to anything attached to the ship with the structural integrity field generator.
@@SacredCowShipyards Speaking of Structural inegrity, remember that the WINDOWS are made of "transparent" Dura Steel.
@@jaywerner8415 yeah that has always been a weird detail in star wars I've always found to be... kinda dumb..m the idea of being able to make transparent material out of OPAGUE METALS, wether it be durasteel, plasteel, OR APPARENTLY EVEN BESKAR... yeah doesn't make much sense
The "MLRS" system at 2:28 is actually a UB-32 rocket pod that is normally mounted to Soviet/Russian built attack helicopters and close air support aircraft. Most pictures of an Mi-24 Hind gunship will show two of them mounted under its stub wings.
Making the Escape Pod blisters into docking collars is very reasonable. Comes pre-equipped with airlock fixtures, and a pilot-friendly pass-thru structure could easily substitute for a pod and sleeve into the slot easily. Even the load-bearing elements don't have to be THAT hardened, if the ventral Tractor system is integrated with any docking process... 🤔
If anything it gives me CH47 Chinook vibes as a multirole freight, vehicle, or troop transport.....
(They are dangerous enough with M60/M240 onboard, and can also mount M2HB, M136 and MK19 depending on your desire for violence)
2:16 Given what we see in Rebels, the pilots normally get in from a walkway above and behind the TIEs.
Except the ones that are landed on the ground/deck all over that series.
>dropship equipped with two AT-ATs
That is an entirely new feeling of terror and intrigue that I haven't thought of. It's a straight up gun ship until it actually drops them off. Shit, theoretically, just cut the legs off (or shorten them to the bottom of the hull), and use the bodies as troop transport 'pods'. Make them 'bunker' pods, INSTANT hardened defensive positions.
Check out the Bolo stories. Same idea, much much bigger guns.
The Gozanti Cruiser, the Helix of Star Wars. Has a nice ring to it.
I love the Gozanti cruiser and its ascetics. Its an adorable brick
The Gozanti Cruiser kind of reminds me of the Half Track design but in space. Enlisted guys just looked at the big open tub-like spot in the back and thought "Now what kind of gun can we stick in there?" and some resourceful engineer or technician or whatever just grins from ear to ear and just says "YES." except with the Gozanti you can put fighters and strike craft and whatnot... although I'm surprised I never saw TIE Interceptors on it's undercarriage considering how effective it would've been.
Also, possible hot take... the Interdictor Cruiser was better than the Star Destroyer in pretty much every way.
Sacred Cow Shipyards Interdictor Cruiser review... when?
Better in what way? They maintain entirely different battle roles so what metrics are you comparing them on?
@@helghast1149 Every metric. Smaller target, better utility, better tactical equipment, comparable logistical performance. Everything. Just imagine if the Empire had Gravity Well generators in every battle with the Rebellion.
No offense but it seems you've ignored every metric that matters like: Shield Recharge Rate, Total Shield Capacity, Hull Armor, Weapon Armaments (Turbolasers, Laser Cannons, Quad Turbolasers, Proton Torpedos, Missiles), Reactor Output (Total Power Output).
"Better Utility" It's a fragile and niche capital ship that exceeds in a support role. It works well for what it's *intended* to do.
"Smaller Target" I agree here that the smaller profile is better. I'd like a ship on the Interdictor's chassis but replace the four reactors with one and essentially make it a more scaled down ISD.
"Better Tactical Equipment" I agree with statement as well save for the fact that the equipment is necessary for survival due to the lack of heavy firepower.
I love the Interdictor for the role it plays as it does so exceedingly well. As I said earlier, an ISD mounted on an Interdictor chassis would be optimal. I may actually attempt that feat in Lego! Cheers @@Gamerguy826
@@helghast1149 An ISD on an Interdictor chasis sounds like a nice compromise but my point is that the Empire's Star Destroyer's large Turbolaser armament was effectivley useless given the Rebellion's emphasis on strike craft. It simply had too many which was counterproductive.
The Interdictor, on the other hand had missile jamming systems which made it a nightmare for things like Y-Wings which were extensively used by the Rebels.
Oh, and let's not forget that Gravity Well generator that could completely shut down hit and run attacks which were the Rebels bread and butter. Completely wasted potential, in my opinion.
I would counter that the ISD's large turbolaser complement wasn't useless as the Star Destroyer was always intended for Capital ship v Capital ship warfare. It was never intended to fight swarms of fighters as if we're being practical no rebellion could have afforded to consistently sustain the naval/aerial losses incurred by the Rebels.
Let's also take care to note that ISD-1's had Point-Defence weaponry that meant they actually could counter and thrive against small strike craft that the Rebellion employed. The ISD-2 was the Star Destroyer that removed Point-Defence weaponry but it was also intended to be a purely up-armored and upgunned Star Destroyer. It was meant to double down on it's original intended role of anti-capital ship. Typically, even in a small battle group you could assume that an ISD would have support from either an Arquitens or two; or even Raider-Class Corvettes. Either one of those spacecraft would be great in an Anti-Fighter role that could allow an ISD-2 to focus on the enemies capital ship. I think Star Wars has had a bad trend recently within the past decade of "lazy space battles" that play too much on plot armor rather than adhering to any sense of technological continuity. @@Gamerguy826
Nearest I can figure, Gallofree was first mentioned in a book in 2015... Gallifrey (as the name for the homeworld of the Time Lords) was in a Doctor Who episode back in the early '70s.
Great video, and don't worry... I'm sure you'll find something in Star Wars to thoroughly grouse and complain about, it's inevitable. {:-)
It was the 3rd Doctor story the Time Warrior where the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey was revealed.
The E-3 is either on its way to a well deserved retirement or potential conversation into something or other, and will be replaced by the E-7 Wedgetail, a name that its layout will most certainly answer all on its own.
When I first heard of Technicals, I thought to myself that I had seen that on "The Rat Patrol" as a kid.
If Imperial doctrine had put more faith and trust in subordinates, and put more stock in flexibility and adaptability then overwhelming force or intimidation, and took Thrawns' approach to strategy, The Gozanti Cruiser would have been a very effective and versatile counter insurgency tool. It would have been very useful in the outer-rim in that regard. Patrol, escort, recon when comes to dealing with spaceborne threats. It can be used a cargo ship and Heavy Lifter, which would make it useful on backwater planets to support garrisons. As well as a gunship and dropship for useful for ground attacks against lightly armed insurgents, with the benefit of fire support. It would have been a very useful against the Rebels if it was handled right.
4:29 I would note that the Gozanti class showing up like that also shows it is an effective fast-response ship. It can get in, drop a squadron of TIEs, and jump out (Or provide light fire support) in like 10 seconds.
Okay you had me at AT-AT, but you really had me at "Legend, you know proper Star Wars."
"Suddenly, the world turns into *FIRRRE."*
I fucking love this channel.
The C-ROC variant/update of the Gozanti is my personal choice for my very own hero ship. Five powerful engines for getting around the 'verse in no time, plus all the weapons you could want, on retractable mounts for that "surprise motherf**ker" moment. 😁
It even can carry up to four Schyk fighters for even more protection. The only drawback I see is not having a hanger bay and only relying on the underside mounts...🤔
Original 'technicals' were the vehicles used by the "Long Range Desert Group" in World War 2.
This ship is one of the few things disney did right
"Legends is Proper Star Wars."
Bro 🤜🤛 fist bump.
I actually like the Radome. It certainly has that kitbash feel of the 70’s. And the tower is right out of the model team’s first attempt at the Star Destroyer. It had a lot of dishes as well to give it a modern navy ship in space kinda feel. One thing to note, the TIE’s can’t actually open their cockpits while latched to a Gonzanti. Pilots would have to board their fighters from either another ship or base and rendezvous with the transport. Also you forgot to mention that the Gonzanti can also hover several meters above the ground and release a lift that can touch the ground to unload cargo or rapidly deploy troops. I never cared much for the original explanation of how the Empire deployed Veer’s AT-ATs at Hoth. The Mammoth drop pods are cool I guess but the versatility and mobility of a Gonzanti make rapid deployment a whole lot more functional.
They could definitely load and unload the ships. Just couldn't do much in the way of repairs.
The Hilux Toyota trucks armed with everything they can fit is a great analogy to innovative modern-day chariots for sure. So, this ship originally a Trasport ship is the Hilux Truck of Star Wars? How did I miss it before for so long?.
Brother in law flew that KC135 variant. He doesn't talk about it either.
Looks like an oversized wheeled Juggernaut given a set of engines.
Ill be honest I would have thought that this would have a Chin turret it is pretty much the go to for everything
"Itsa meeeeee, Gozantiiiii!"
all im getting from this vid is that the Gozanti Cruiser is just in fact starworts version of a extra thicc Bell UH-1 Iroquois "huey"
Keeping the AT-AT's bolted on and telling them to shoot everything they can see is fucking genius!
Right?
I heard they are moving away from Toyota trucks to flatbed trucks, because it's easier to mount weapons to a flatbed truck, where the bed is completely flat, with no wheel wells protruding, and the side walls can be slung down easily.
this craft is a fucking champion
It could be argued that the dish would be doing the same, when in orbit of a planet and not wanting to nose dive relative to gravity. Then you could use the upper dishes to monitor traffic in and out of the planet while using the horizontal dish to monitor general communications on the surface. Seems like a perfect 'cop behind a billboard' ship tbh.
But it would be over the surface of the planet.
@@SacredCowShipyards I'm confused... are you saying that as in we never see it over a planet or that it wouldn't be effective over the surface
Toyota Hilux genuinely is very tough. Top Gear attempted to kill one by smashing it into trees, throwing it into the ocean overnight, setting it on fire, demolishing a tower block with the truck on the roof, smacking it with a wrecking ball etc etc. Mechanic apparently fixed it up each time with basic tools, except for replacing the windscreen so they could drive it into the studio aftet all that.
Then they drove it to the north pole, and up an active volcanoe.
i prefer the legends version of the walker transport at least it dosent hanf there it is way safer to transport the cargo than just two magnets and hope the engineer did a good job
Even though the smaller and more common one-walker-type had to transport the wlaker crouched😅,
@@chheinrich8486 at least it was protected and storaged
@@laisphinto6372 i know it just find the Image funny🤣
Much bigger ship, and much less flexible.
@@SacredCowShipyards its a Transport ship and i prefer a safe shipment over needless losses from being flexible
"NONE OF YOU know much about them..."
That one rc-135 pilot who happens to be subscribed to his channel 😂
Well, I took a calculated risk, and apparently my math was wrong.
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Oh not me lol, I was just saying it would be funny if there was one. My bad🤣, love your videos by the way, any chance I'll be able to get some Sacred Cow Shipyards dice anytime soon?
We are working on it, with limited success.
@@SacredCowShipyards WOOO! I look forward to being able to get some whenever you have them ready. I completely understand if it takes awhile though lol
Based off the hanger bays in rebels tie fighters are strapped to a catwalk system in hanger bays where pilots walk/run on the cat walks to get in/out
Oh sure, but Rebels also had them parked on the ground/deck. A lot.
Ah, yes, the Toyota Pick-up with a 50 cal machine gun of Star Wars.