Rogue One Vehicles/Tech in Rogue One

I would say they took inspiration from Zam Wessel's speeder, the cockpit of the Y-wing, and the engines of the X-wing.

 

I might be the only one, but I really think the design for Krennic's shuttle sucks. Would love to see someone chase this kind of shuttle into an asteroid field...

 

I think it's a bad angle and lighting for it. Makes the fuselage look like a pyramid shape, like it should be in the Stargate universe instead.

 

I can understand that shuttles are kind of sports cars for the higher ups and that each one can have his own model, but I prefer the classic Imperial Lambda Shuttle myself.

 

It looks like something out of Stargate and not Star Wars, i'd have preferred to have a more heavily armed version of the Lambda class shuttle.

 

Interesting design. There's something ominous about that shuttle that I like. However, it reminds me more of the T-16 Skyhopper rather than a regular Lambda Shuttle.

 

The Lambda was indeed iconic, as an Imperial Shuttle, I must say...

And while those wings as well as high tail are nice, that Krennic Imperial Shuttle's "main body" is a bit too reminiscent of the big pyramid-shaped spaceship that we saw in the 1994 Stargate movie (the one that kick-started the whole Stargate series whose photo is below)...

The Rogue One designers should have maintained some parts of the Lambda look, which is definitely much nicer and somehow more "complete" also!

 

Does anybody have a good idea how tall that shuttle would be in real life? The windows on top of the "pyramid" body seem to hint that it's very tall.

Now, considering that the forward hangar section aboard a Star Destroyer (where Vader disembarked at the beginning of ROJ) is not that tall, I seriously wonder how you could possibly land this thing aboard any regular Star Destroyer...

("Sorry Director Krennic, please proceed to the following coordinates, you'll find a Super Star Destroyer there that can pick you up" )

 

...but I really love the U-Wing. I guess Rogue One will be the first SW film where I consider the new Rebel designs to be better than the new Imperial designs.

 

I really dig the U-wing as well. But I admit, I really like the TIE Striker.

 

Wow, these two are my favorites... And same goes for the SW-0608 Imperial Cargo Shuttle, which is always shown in the various Rogue One trailers getting blown up (how often do you see a four wing vessel in Star Wars, let alone any sci-fi movie?)...

 

We see 4 winged vessels in SW quite often cause ya know..........

 

The X-Wings are indeed four-wings in a way... But rare to see such a 4-wing vessel with wings like that of the Lambda or Kylo Ren Command Shuttle, which can move 180-degrees up and down - and are very impressive when those are upright!

 

Yeah I know. The new Imp shuttles are super cool. The would be second on my list of vehicle toys they need to make for the film (Behind the tank obviously).

 

The U-Wing is the vehicle that the SW canon so desperately needed. The rebels are into guerrilla warfare, however, we never saw a true troop transport other than those bulky (and kinda ******) Rebel Transports, which were more meant for cargo rather than deploying of troops (let alone, for combat). I hope the Resistance will have a modern iteration of the U-Wing so that we will never see again that ugly ship we saw at Takodana.
The Rebels have now the best equiped fighter fleet suited for any combat situation.

 

Porkins2099 wrote

I hope the Resistance will have a modern iteration of the U-Wing so that we will never see again that ugly ship we saw at Takodana.

(exactly my thoughts)

 

That abomination was just so un-Star Wars, yes it might be practicable but it's aesthetics were horrendous.

 

Huh, I didn't think it was that bad at all. Just kind of a square outrider.

 

Unlike all other troop carriers, I doubt anyone with a sane mind would design a troop carrier like this in real life. Upon landing the enemy just has to focus the center of the vessel, wait until the hatch is open and fire away.

In contrast the U-Wing doesn't offer that much of vulnerable surface facing the enemy upon landing. Troops can quickly disembark from both sides of the U-Wing, while the Resistance carrier apparently has only one exit.

As Solo would have probably said: Ain't my idea of courage. It's more like suicide.

 

You mean like the FO transports or countless real world examples that exist? You don't think they were just firing at the opening in Saving Private Ryan?

 

I'm guessing, due to lack of resources perhaps, that they repurposed the (or some) b-wings due to their high maintenance factor and advanced handling. It certainly looks that way.

 

weezer wrote

You mean like the FO transports or countless real world examples that exist? You don't think they were just firing at the opening in Saving Private Ryan?

In both of these examples the practical design advantage (over the Resistance carrier) is that the bow features the smallest surface area an enemy can hit, while the Resistance carrier exposes the largest amount of surface area to enemy fire.

The Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in Saving Private Ryan, is a 20th Century design and objectively could not have been built any better as an amphibious craft.

Given the choice I'd rather fly and disembark from a U-Wing than an FO transport, because the double exit of the U-Wing would probably double my chances of survival.

 

But who cares if they're hitting the side of the ship? They're not hitting the troops.

As long as there is a hole in something that people are going to jump out of you can make the argument that they're just going to shoot at that point.

 

There's two major arguments to this transport.

In Universe
The thing is that the Resistance have enough resources to acquire the latest model X-Wing, so why would they need to use a mishmash hodge-podge transport that at best looks harder to fly than a B-Wing? And how does it fit in the hangers they have on D'Quar?

Aesthetic
It just looks to me and others to be wrong, unlike the B-Wing it's right angled cockpit doesn't rotate which was the point of having a right angled cockpit in the first place. May be if they'd have a straight in line cockpit, a bit like the concept for the Falcon, it would look far better.

 

Double Exit?