Is there anyway that a TIE fighter could destroy the Millenium Falcon?

I ask this because i was recently watching ROTJ and the Death Star 2 attack run...

Although the X-wings are obviously in great danger for the TIE's, the Falcon appears not to be. Its greater problem seems to be navigating the tight passageways of the superstructure.

My question is: Is it actually possible to take out the millennium Falcon for the rear by using a single TIE Interceptor?

 

Of course it's possible. All the TIE would have to do is shoot it over and over again until its shields go down, then finish it off by shooting the unshielded hull. Same as it would destroy any other ship.

 

You can give it a try yourself in X-Wing Alliance.

Not going to be easy though, that's for sure.

 

Absolutely, the only problem is it will take multiple direct hits to break through the shields and armor, while the unshielded TIE will be destroyed by even a glancing blow from the quad lasers.

 

The only thing that could completely destroy the Falcon is Han Solo. The falcon was reduced to a wrecked p.o.s. several times that I can think of off the top of my head and he keeps rebuilding her.

 

i wish it would and han would get a new ship, they should have lando piloting it 2 so he gets killed off

 

Of course one could! All it would need is to be fitted with the Anti-Character Shield Ray and voila! Who wants deep fried Wookiee for dessert?!



More seriously, though, one theoretically could, however I believe Han is meant to have fitted the Falcon with an improved capital ship grade shield generator, so for a ship its size the Falcon would be hard to take down by normal means -- at least before the other ship got blown up first.

A squadron of TIEs is obviously another story, though. As would be, say, something like an Assault Gunboat which is armed to the teeth with the destruction of larger ships in mind.

 

Easier said than done.

 

Agreed. If they stopped putting nincumpoops in the cockpit that can't shoot straight, the Falcon would be space-shrapnel by now.

 

With all the times Han has been captured only to escape, you'd think they'd have taken a skin sample and replaced ordinary stormies with Solo clones.

 

I think it depends on who flies the TIE fighter. If the TIE pilot is Darth Vader (or maybe his son), then I think it's safe to assume one fried Falcon.

 

Dang. That just gave me an idea.... IF Vader mixed some Rhett and Solo, we'd have the perfect straight-shooting-badass with a laundry list of snappy one-liners!

 

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Oh, they can shoot straight. It's just that the Falcon has some pretty strong shields.

 

Is it possible? Sure it is. If the Falcon was just sitting there with shields down. If the Falcon had already been hit by a turbolaser a few times. Or if the Falcon was being flown by one half-blind man who couldn't man the turrets.

Is it likely? Not really. If I remember right, the Falcon has military-grade shields (stolen), Han welded some old bulk cruiser armor to the Falcon so even though a snubfighter could knock down the shields it would take a while, then they'd have to get through the armor. And the Falcon is of course very fast. Although the pursuing TIE Interceptors probably didn't want to take out the Falcon by ramming it, the Falcon escaped the Death Star's explosion whereas the TIEs didn't. At the very least, the Falcon wasn't holding back the Rebel snubfighters.

And that's assuming of course the TIEs aren't blown up by the quad guns first. Or taken out by any other tricks Han Solo knows, and he knows a lot.

 

Given that the Falcon was taking direct shots from a Star Destroyer and not being obliterated it'd take a loooooooong time for a single TIE to take it down.

 

Nah, A Star Destroyer's point defence guns are no more powerful than many starfighter mounted weapons. If the Star Destroyer could get a decent firing solution with those big slow asteroid vapourising turbo-lasers it would have been a differant story.

 

Particle shields tend to be weaker than ray shields. We know that being rammed can do significant damage to the Falcon in VotF. Just take the TIE up to full speed and plow into the engine bank, or cockpit. Especially a TIe/m4, which is designed to do exactly that.

On the other hand, what sort of TIE? A Bomber, Defender, or m1 could probably mess it up pretty bad if it is not shot back.

 

I would like to point out that the TIE fighter attacks do clearly damage the ship in the movies, complete with internal damage, while the ship is still up. They don't absorb everything and can't last forever.

Speaking of the Flacon in combat...in ANH the Falcon acts like a B-17 reallying on it turret gunners for protection. In ROTJ, the Falcon dogfights with the best fighters.

Maybe he upgraded the ship's maneuverability?

 

Whatever happened to the Starwing Assault Gunboat? They seem like they'd be perfect for taking on the falcon.

 

ANH the Falcon was running under-crewed, with flight managed by a co-pilot and novice, and one gun crewed by an amatuer. RotJ has a full crew of 4 in the cockpit, and 2 trained gunners, plus maybe more crew dealing with engineering/technical consoles.

 

Boo.. Another Lando hater..

 

You can't hate on Lando, he's cool.

The TIE could always crash into the Falcon.

 

I wonder why Darth Vader never bothered to order a hunt for the Millenium Falcon after ANH.

Could be a cool paperback. Darth Vader ordering Soontir Fel and a few other Imperial ace pilots to shoot down the Milennium Falcon. Of course we know they would fail, and Soontir would survive.

Back to the question. It would also depend on the circumstances, IMHO. If the TIE had a hyperdrive, its odds would increase. You would need top notch intel like when the Milennium Falcon leaves a planet, TIE pops out of hyperspace really close, and aims at the cockpit or the engines before the shields are up. If Boba would have wanted him dead, he would have tried that.

 

The power of the plot. Yes they can, but the plots won't allow it.