Yet another ship that the Resistance should’ve used to differentiate itself from the Rebellion

@WolfeSaber9933

8 ай бұрын

There's also the K-wing, an A-10 in space.

@macwelch8599

8 ай бұрын

@@WolfeSaber9933 yep

@Resilient_Primal

8 ай бұрын

For real, another common resistance L

@soldierbr8726

8 ай бұрын

​@@WolfeSaber9933I'd say it's more of a su-34

@LuisWoods

8 ай бұрын

Facts bro

The H-wing was always one of my favorite not heard of aircrafts. For the longest time, none of my friends believed it existed!

@tkc1129

8 ай бұрын

And believe it or not, it's the earliest "letter-wing" fighter after the movies. I have a redesign in mind for it that keeps and actually builds in its uniqueness and personality... I just haven't got the time to improve my skills and do so. And if you're reading this, Shack, I doubt the gunner controlled the ion cannons; probably the co-pilot controlled those. The gunner had a turret, and it's pretty hard to simultaneously control forward-facing guns when you're spinning around.

@Asko83

8 ай бұрын

H-Wing looks fun and I like how it actually has a bunk for the crew to use. I feel like it should have been redesigned as a long rance recon craft rather than a bomber. Have it fly around from system to system and fill it with sensors, ECM and such and try to be stealthy with it while scouting enemy movement.

I'd say the Vigilance being meant to combat A wings makes some sense. Military production companies compete for contracts all the time, so the Vigilance was probably just a different company's attempt to make an interceptor, but lost out to the TIE interceptor.

@ImNtDead

8 ай бұрын

Production of the A-9 started five years after the battle of Endor and was faster than a Tie interceptor; but yeah it was developed by Kuat to compete against Sienar

Back in the early EU with the X-Wing games I liked the XG-1 Assault Gunboat being the Empire's response to Rebel heavy starfighters. TIE Bombers work better in swarms against capital ships or ground targets but can't really do offense in a dogfight. The Gunboat was a big target but its shields lasted and you could lay down a big field of fire.

@brianwhedon8442

7 ай бұрын

Gunboats also appear in the Heir to the Empire books. Thrawn liked to use them for their advantages and hyperdrives

My favorite was the K-Wing, the ultimate F*** you bomber, when something absolutely needed to die. I can only imagine how the board meeting for this craft went down. Director: Well gentleman, we have been tasked with designing the next generation bomber for the New Republic. How much ordinance should we put on the craft? Everyone else: ALL OF IT!!!

@generaljimmies3429

8 ай бұрын

The K-Wing is like the A-10 Thunderbolt of Star Wars

@DashsChannel

8 ай бұрын

The K-Wing always struck me as Warhammer-esque with its sheer amount of dakka everywhere

@AJadedLizard

8 ай бұрын

God, the K-Wing is so cool. It's a laarty that isn't designed to drop troops. Back before we got the Hero Shooter, my buddy and I talked about how cool Battlefront would've been with these in Rush or Operations: just pounding the everloving shit out of the other team.

@thepurpleapple

8 ай бұрын

How much hyperdrive shall we give it? For some reason, none!

@sonickunckle

8 ай бұрын

I honestly don’t like the look of the K-wing, instead I think the starfortress could be way better than it is now had lucasfilm and/or disney made it bomber version of a torrent starfighter but very beefed up (and maybe vertically stretches it a bit) and not make the bomb run in battle of D’Qar too traditional to one would be done by B-17s.

My personal favorite was the K-wing, got to love that overarmed flying wing

I love the H-Wing for the simple reason that it looks like the chief engineer just glued 2 A-Wings together and called it a day

The H-Wing and Howlrunner are definite favorites of mine. I really like them, design and all.

@jasoncaldwell5627

7 ай бұрын

The Howleunner resembles a clunky version of the Buck Rogers starfighter that Mcquarrie designed.

The most obscure, least seen Rebel fighter has to be the B-Wing. After they veered away from the second Death Star's still active shield they were never seen again.

@gabebernal

8 ай бұрын

There was a whole episode of Rebels about the B-Wing

@christophernemeth421

8 ай бұрын

Apparently there were issues with the B-Wing model and the green screen technology of the time, so the ships never looked right in combat scenes. Which is a shame because we could have seen them taking down some ISDs

@kabob0077

8 ай бұрын

Well they've been in practically every game so it kind of evens out.

@brianwhedon8442

7 ай бұрын

In the concept art for ROTJ there's a big scene where 2 B-Wings are flying over a ISD exploding. That scene never made it into the movie but if you watch ROTJ where Admiral Akbar says to concentrate all firepower on the SSD you see the ISD exploding in the background in a near similar way as the concept art. I have heard the same rumor that chris mentions about issues with shooting the B-Wing models so in my mind they would have appeared on screen at that exact moment in the movie and then the next shot would have been Admiral Akbar's command chair scene

@MariOmor1

5 ай бұрын

I know not many people like it, but in the sequel trilogy (Episode 9) when the Resistance ships leave their base, you can see a B-wing as part of them

I love the Toscan 8-Q from legends. The ability to customise individual airframes depending on mission type would be huge for planetary defence forces. Depending on how fast the modules could be changed the Toscan could have a massive advantage as a carrier-based Starfighter.

@reginaldshort8486

8 ай бұрын

The Toscanini 8-Q could be modified as more of a naval bomber.

i think other than the scraping together reason, i think rebels having every type of fighter possible could have additional benefits in not giving the empire an easy way to identify likely rebel movement vs just regular people.

@JJJBunney001

8 ай бұрын

That sort of was how it worked, rebels sourced their materials from anywhere they could get it and whatever they could get which had the side benefit of making it hard for imperials to track anything

@megathicc6367

6 ай бұрын

It also must be hard to develop easy counter strategies if every individual rebel cell you meet is different.

Can you do a part 2 of this? I’d love to see more ships!

I’d love to see the Rebels/new republic using Xg-1 Starwings and remark how the empire made a really good Rebel-like ship and even put ‘wing’ in the name.

Imagine a capital ship made of beskar, if it performed like the human armour then you may as well surrender because you're not going to hurt it at all.

@bradmyst1339

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how vulnerable it would be from an Ion canon?

@sumukhvmrsat6347

8 ай бұрын

ISD : I am here to bring Mandalorian to its kness Fully Beskar CR90 with 10000 proton (more sensable than the sequels bomber ,also survivable because just fast) bombs in its modified cargo bay to armoured bomb bay and 8 quad light laser turrets (on sides) and 4 medium dual ion cannon turrets (main guns) and a spinal Plasma beam artillery( clone wars era SPHAT based ): Take left , take u turn take right ISD : that's the way ? Beskarus CR90: this is the way ISD Aims at CR90 : u sure CR90 : launches 1000 bombs : what do you think ? Lambda shuttle : Pretty sure , Good bye good sir

@sumukhvmrsat6347

8 ай бұрын

​@@bradmyst1339 Me : Shows how y wings evaded malevolence Ion cannons Also shows how fast CR90 is (I know malevolence is not the only Ion cannon weapon but CR90 is pretty fast)

T-wing and the Planetary fighter were always classic designs to me. Something intriguing about the idea of a highly customized T-wing mixing it up flown by a mercenary pilot…. There’s a story there.

@bowwing333

8 ай бұрын

Later gen T-Wings are really solid. They don't get nearly enough love because of their disappointing debut issues. Honestly really impressive for their price point nonetheless, even stock Gen 1s. I used to hate these things, the A-9 and the Howlrunners until I got under tye hood and realized how much heat their packing in such a small unassuming frame. The T-Wing really reminds me in some ways of the Z-95. Just lots of potential there. Just the right size for my purposes too, even if I might have to swallow my pride sometimes and rig up an external cargo harness ..or I guess HKD hauler brackets on the nose if I just wanna bring my swoop along. Not much you can do with the A-9 unfortunately...really hard to work on without compromising something. Mostly just whatever you can get away with swapping out and still get it to communicate with the computer. Like working on a iPhone, and attaching non Apple-approved devices and cables to it. Just a finicky lil eggshell. Would be cool to see what they could have done with these things in later iterations had they not pulled the contract and ceased production. Probably some cool prototype testing variants floating around somewhere if you got the connections and the credits. The Howlrunner is much easier but really is just fine as is for pretty much anything you're gonna want that setup for...anything else will require you to extend the cab which is fine if you just want an unarmed, unshielded civilian craft for atmosphere only with just enough cargo space for a weekend getaway or a small second seat for canyon thrill flying with a friend. But then again there are honestly far better and cost effective ways to spend your credits than converting a Howlrunner into another reason for your Mother-in-Law to complain.

I really loved the T-Wing from the Tie Fighter computer game. Wish that had stuck around.

I know EC Henry's long range patrol ship based on the B-Wing is fan made. But what he created with that ship is phenomenal. I would absolutely love to see it incorporated into SW at some point. Especially post Endor with the New Republic.

It's interesting to see that not so many ships actually had an astromech socket, unlike the X and Y wing

Dark Empire had so many "unique" ship designs. Cam Kennedy just went all out when making the ships. There's a panel where it shows a massive fleet of "Star Destroyers" orbiting a planet and there are SO many different variations of the ISD there you could literally spend a couple hours making a video describing all of them.

I was playing awakening of the rebellion today and just discovered the h wing from it, and then this video popped up!

Saw this on my recommendations on the front page of YT and thought it was a new EC Henry video for a minute. Oh well, you win some you lose some.

My favorite would probably be the K-Wing. It just had so many weapons on it so it looked really cool.

I am so excited to see a running Panzer 1! I hardly see anyone bring up the Panzer 1 when talking about axis armor.

4:39 Actually the predecesor of the RZ-1 A-Wing was the R-22 Spearhead, which was an interceptor of very similar desing

1:24 It would make sense for canon to adopt some of these designs. The A-9 is a dope ship!

I remember this ship! Thanks for discussing it. Love your content and I hope to see more!

H-Wing looks sick

The M-class actually looks really cool. It gives off a really Cyberpunk aesthetic I feel.

The H wing is just a huge square target 😂

I'm surprised we don't see more on the tie avenger - basically a tie interceptor with Shields, hyperdrive, warheads, and excellent performance, while still cheaper than a tie defender.

Eck is trying to will another Legends ship into existence

Imagine if the Rebels used a BT-7 Thunderclap and the Starsaber XC-01 Starfighter?

@snugglecity3500

8 ай бұрын

Why the hell would they do that? I dont know what the star saber is but i assure you there arent any bt7s left.

@merafirewing6591

8 ай бұрын

@@snugglecity3500 There are plenty of old republic era ships still chugging around, so there would still be some Thunderclaps still around.

@snugglecity3500

8 ай бұрын

@@merafirewing6591 thats a case by case basis. You see any hammerhead cruisers around?

@JJJBunney001

8 ай бұрын

​@@snugglecity3500yeah, Rogue one, rebels and episode 9 haha. But yes that guys idea of a nearly 4000 year old shuttle is a bad idea

@snugglecity3500

8 ай бұрын

@@JJJBunney001 they are hammerhead Corvettes not cruisers. Very different.

I love your outro where you or someone else is patting a dog on the top and sides of its head.

Also, the ships from naboo and gunships like the razor crest do not get enough love. I adore the nubian ships.

God i fucking love this content

The h wing is an amazing bomber and is perfectly represented in the awakening of the rebellion mod for empire at war when playing as the rebels

Thanks for the video!

If I wrote the story for a squadrons sequel, I'd have the A9 and the Howlrunner brought back in as Imperial fighters that are none ties. Have a mission where the Imperial side salvages some. Concentrating more on having fighters with quality in their predicament.

I was always a fan of the Skipray Blastboat. Which seems to be a little bigger than a starfighter, I guess around the size of a Lambda Class Shuttle.

@brianwhedon8442

7 ай бұрын

I want to see one on screen. They play a big part in the EU starting with Heir to the Empire until the end of the novel series. I'm hoping its made canon sometime in Ahsoka S.2 or the upcoming movie.

I’m sooooo happy the E-Wing is canon again! I’m not happy they took away the third heavy cannon on top of the canopy. I’m just hoping what they showed in Ahsoka was a variant. But I am happy it’s canon!!!! I love the design and the fact that it’s as fast as an A Wing.

To paraphrase Madmordigan, "give me an A-Wing, Eric. Let me win this war for you."

I don't know if you've done them, but maybe a vid on the XJ-series X-Wing (including the Stealth-X, both in the Vong Invasion) and/or the LongProbe Y-wing from the (I think) Black Fleet Crisis

I designed and built (on Bricklink Studio) a Lego MOC of a different sort of H-wing - a medium-duty dual turbolaser turret with A-wing engines, which could launch from a Star Destroyer, jump to the target, perform a hit and run with the turbolasers, and jump back to the SD. It could be slaved to the Star Destroyer's weapons systems or operated independently from the cockpit while connected to Star Destroyer power for much faster recharge rates.

They need to make them canon!

Nice to hear you intro music. Have you dealt with the parasites claiming money?

I would love to learn more about the fighter at 7:25. Kinda looks like a mix between the Porax-38 starfighter and the Belbullab-22

The H-wing also had a significant drawback: the stations were separate. The pilot could not fire the weapons and the gunner couldn't pilot the ship.

I have a few custom H Wing squadrons for Star Wars Armada. Im sure there are some stats for it out there but I usually out it on a Y-Wing base and have them as part of my uglies squadrons when I want a pirate faction, making it among the more capable ships (alongside the Chir'Daki Deathseeds) in those fleets.

My favorite Star Wars ship that the Rebel Alliance / new Republic used was the Kwing as it was a true heavy gunship that really resembled a Flying Fortress but unlike the Flying Fortress was very fast in a straight line due to its sublight acceleration motor allowing it to rapidly launch itself at Targets unload a heavy payload similar to what Poe Dameron did against the Star Destroyer we shall not name but it was also heavily armed to the teeth with guns so it didn't really require an escort unlike other bombers. Not to mention the cockpit and Gunner section of the vessel could separate and fly separately as an escape ship that was decently armed if the main body of the ship was damaged

I prefer the Toscan 8-Q to start a rebellion. Cheap and easily modifiable with no one outside of Thrawn would see it as a threat. Hope to see it in Andor.

Suffering through 3 different adverts before getting to the video grrrrrrr why 😮

I would love a video of the T16 sky hopper.

A lot of these are in Awakening of the Rebellion (AOTR) mod for empire at war, really great game

Disappointed you didn’t mention the mother of all bombers: the K-Wing Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

@facelesscleric2744

8 ай бұрын

The K-Wing is pretty well known much like the E-Wing, though I doubt Disney will bring it back into canon since it is ugly as sin.

@kabob0077

8 ай бұрын

The K-Wing is as obscure as the A-10, it needs no introduction. It's still the scariest CAS aerospace craft in Star Wars though...

I thought the K-wing was crazy cool. And the new intercepter ETA 5 I think?

The starschaser is a ship i always wanted to see a heavy varient of like the A10 warthog but ive never seen a version like that

@brucwayn6403

7 ай бұрын

@@stuart00knight nice ill have to look into that

I love the H wing and M wing!

The E-Wing is one of my favorite Star Wars fighters.

If you take a real-like aicraft, like the P-82 Twin-Mustang, into account, something like the H-Wing makes a lot of sense. Star Wars never leaned too much into computer-controlled starfighters during the Imperial Era, so having a bomber capable of light speed but with two pilots works quite nicely. The P-82 had twice the engines, twice the range, twice the survivability, and twice the pilot competency. I imagine the H-Wing would have been a bigger, heavier bomber capable of independantly hitting targets with much force.

The Howlrunner? More like, the T.V. remote, but a ship with guns 🤣

Huh. I'd never heard of the H-Wing, but now that I've seen it, I think I like it

Could you do a video or two on the mandos in legends after the OT? i wanna hear about the beskar ships so bad those sound dope as hell!

I've always loved the Z-95 Headhunter, R-41 Starchaser, E-Wing, and K-Wing, and I do like the T-Wing and H-Wing (as designs; I'm happily ignoring that they suck in practice, as the efficacy - both in space and in atmosphere - is arbitrarily assigned across Star Wars ships independent of their physical designs, anyway) as well as the Defender. The V-Wing, too, if it weren't just a speeder.

I miss these eckharts videos 😢

could you bring back the factions compared series? I noticed you haven't been doing as many. I also realize that there may not be that many more things to compare.

The H-Wing would be cool with one cockpit only and droids for the other roles. I can envision one half of the craft being dedicated to ion torpedoes and other heavy anti-capital ship ordinance.

Wow I never been so early

Don't worry, those Mando ships undoubtedly would have been replaced by new boring X-wing and TIE updates in the next series. One issue with Legends that extended into the Disney era was going back to the same old designs rather than sticking with newer ones.

@RamielNagisa

8 ай бұрын

On one hand you're right. On the other, how dare you besmirch my glorious X-wing! lol (I honestly loved that the X-wing became the new Jedi starfighter in Legends, with Luke's Jedi eventually being given the Stealth-X)

@Starsaber222

8 ай бұрын

​@@RamielNagisa A starfighter isn't really the right ship for a lot of missions Jedi tend to be sent on. I feel like an armed courier ship of some sort would probably be best. Able to defend itself and others, but with some cargo and passenger space.

5:10 VECTOR, OH YEAAAAAH, PIRANHA GUN

Imperial gunboat/misselboat eqivalent for the y/b wing and there also cool looking and realy badass ships

I wish Dark Horse would have a newer more modern artwork done for the dark empire comic series made. Same story just more modern artwork

The H-Wing looks like the front of two Y-Wings slapped together.

Everyone with a crayon drawing a space ship

Disney's favourite ship: $-Wing

I love obscure ships, fighters especially. Two missing from this list I can think of off the top of my head was the T-Wing, and the Miy'til (I think I spelled that right). And this is a nitpick of the highest order, but the alphabet in Star Wars is Aurabesh, and not English, so all the ABC Letter fighters kinda bugged me for a while because they wouldn't have an A, B, C, etc... But I get that it was named such for ease of understanding to casual viewers who, in 1977 especially, were not yet big on sci-fi and what it would become. Aura Wing does sound kinda cool though.

Why did they remove the mc75 submod for Thrawns revenge EAW??? Loved that ship, nice video Eck 👌

that crazy

Have you ever done a video on the K-Wing?

1:58 ten years ABY is enough time that what remained of the Empire was probably scrambling to get whatever hardware they could get their hands on.

The ship at 5:20 is just a space HIND lol

I love the K wing but the H wing looks fucking horrendous.

The H-Wing reminds me of a F-82 Twin Mustang...

The A-9 looks like the Imperial Alliance fighters from Star Fleet/X-Bomber.

I'm surprised we don't see more examples of Rebel Uglies, damaged starfighters frankensteined together because it was cheaper than buying replacements. Yo Eck, you're one of the coolest Star Wars guys on youtube, care to make a rebel Ugly?

The Alliance could of got their hands on the Aurek Strike fighter, the original A-Wing. They were extremely compact and loved by mechanics,also very powerful for its size.

@JJJBunney001

8 ай бұрын

How? They were horribly outdated and thousands of years old, there probably wasn't any interest in them anywhere except for a collector

Can't wait for a ß-Wing

Talking of expensive fighters, what about prince xizors star fighter? Can’t remember the specific name but I could see you doing a sweet video

@StreetBoyWill

8 ай бұрын

Ah, the StarViper. Always nice.

@samkavanagh8249

8 ай бұрын

Yes!!!!! The Virago!

Not gonna lie, my biggest beef with the hwing was that 3rd cockpit. Center it, or put it in line, that wonky kinda here, kinda there location has pissed me off forever lol

Please talk about the Mando fighter in he legacy series, it was stealthed, made of beskar, and had a crap ton of weapons. If any ship was better then the tie defender its this thing

K wing. The Star Wars equivalent of an A-10 warthog.

We know how expensive Beskar steel is, the cost of building a capital ship out of it boggles the mind. If Beskar steel was available in those kind of quantities it wouldn't be so expensive as you could outfit millions of troopers with body armour with the same material as a single small capital ship.

@kabob0077

8 ай бұрын

Apparently the Vong accidentally exposed a large amount of Beskar at some point during their invasion of the galaxy or something, so the Mandalorians were actually sitting on more of the stuff than they thought.

Given how Beskar is ridiculously expensive an even bit tough to work with unless your a Mando armorer or trained by one... Wouldn't building super warships for good or bad be not much more then a Mando wet dream??? Did Bo Katan daydream this up just before Din Jarin show up to give her a pep talk? Mayne Din got the idea after his "baby", the other one, got basically totalled on an alien backwater? Or did Boba elect to have a unique personal ship that even a squadron backed by a way bigger ship of enemies would have a tough time with???

Have you ever done a video on hondo’s stereotypical ufo ships

Ngl I've always thought these EU lesser known ships look like very wacky and generic sci fi ships you'd see in other franchises

The Preybird looks like a Klingon fighter.

H-Wing? You mean the HALLO-WEENG?

At least it looks like an H. Take notes B-Wing.

The H Wing kinda remotely reminds me of the Arc-170's bigger and heavier dedicated bomber version in terms of use and capabilities.

Honestly love seeing lesser known ships as Xwings are good just boring at this point. As for a potential episode or series I'd personally love to see What if spotlights like if the empire sided with rebel designs but kept their style of ship design. For example a simple google ship search of a imperial B Wing shows a tie fighter cockpit on a blade wing design similar to the bubble fighter from the Lost in Space movie. Just a thought as I dont see anyone exploring exploring this idea.

Man the H wing is just a better cloud car lol