When I was a kid, I had to find those concept art books just to satisfy my curiosity for the mechanics of Star Wars' vehicles. Now it is a lot easier to understand them with your amazing video and the 3d model. Thank you for your hard work.
Also, it looks a lot like Soviet attack helicopter MI-24. I've heard that MI-24, was the inspiration of LAAT. And fun fact. When Anakin orders pilot to shoot down count Dooku he said that they out of rockets. And you can notice these damn air-to-air missiles, hanging on the wing and asking pilot, like: "Are we a joke to you?"
@@mnewberg1 Then all of a sudden Dooku starts deflecting those laser cannon with his lightsaber. (Pew pew) Dooku: "Brave..." (Deflected the laser then blew-up the gunship along with Anakin and Obi-Wan) Dooku: "But foolish." (Dooku wink) 😉
As a BlackHawk Crew Chief, yah, they definitely did take a ton of design hints from it. There are so many things that are identical to my bird and it how we do things but obviously with a faster fixed wing vtol. Kinda why it has always interested me. Oh as the size is almost identical. We only Cary like 11. It far less when they are heavy with gear or we need to go higher and the air is thinner. That that bird has some massive advantages
@@Halfscreen I just wait on that notification 😉 and I've probably watched all of the star wars ones qt least 3 times each by now 😂 I love that you show us scenes from the movies and shows also, to make sure we know exactly where we are. It's just all around good content bro! And the darth Vader episode 😍😍😍 I loved it!
I loved this ship,when I first saw it in EPII. Made a true 1/18 scale one for my Padawan and still has it,now, I'm working on a 1/6 scale one for me and can't wait to finish it and makya video on it. and their Info on this,is very valuable to the construction of the Project 😁👍
I hate that during the clone wars, the show runners basically forgot that these gunships had this incredible arsenal and the gunships just became Cannon fodder that never used it's multitude of weapons and always got shot down incredibly easily.
@@Jack-Hands apperently by lore, they remove the side ball composite laser turrets to pressurised the aircraft for space use (aka block the 2 access ways to the 2 balls turrets)
The LAATs were modified during the clone wars. They took the 'tiny death stars' off and instead the whole vehicle became able to travel in space. (they couldn't initially because of the gaps in troop compartment walls) Nevertheless it still had a formidable armament, I don't get why they became cannon fodder in the 2008 clone wars series... And of course thank you for all your hard work Halfscreen, you are awesome ^^
Based on Black hawk AND the HIND. But more on the Hind because it can do Gunship roles and transport without much modification unlike the Blackhawk (Which needs modifications before being getting a role of the gunship) The Hind is basically an Apache that can carry troops like LAAT
I think it's based more on the Mi-24 Hind than the Blackhawk, being both a gunship and troop carrier as well as having literally the same dual bubble cockpit.
I always imagined these badboys with two 20mm in the chin, 50 Calibers in the two ball turrets, a 25mm in the back, Hellfire missiles launching out of the tubes, and 20-30 SOF loaded for bear ready to land, rappel, or parachute down into a fight.
Hey man. Great video as always. This ship makes one of the best sounds in all of the Star Wars universe in my opinion. By the way, I have nearly finished my first narrated video. Let me know what you think when I upload it.
Thanks, will do! In addition, don't worry to much if you don't have any views, it took forever for any of my video to go viral. It's basically a numbers game.
@Halfscreen I watched your vid on the USS Voyager but now I can't find it. Plus I got a notification that you replied to my comment. But I can't find it now as well. I hope all is well. I really liked that vid. Now on to this one! Love your work! Keep it up!!! \m/
hey there, was just wondering how the pilots actually got inside the LAAT, do they enter from the outside with steps or is there an included elevator inside/underneath the actual cockpit ? thx
@@bhrigubhatra5589 I think it is possible that the LAAT/i and the LAAT/LE are similar in design, so they decided not to add any cross-over information.
Ah, one of the best Star Wars designs ever; the bastard love child of a blackhawk and a Hind with a sprinkle of Star Wars magic. Though I would avoid using the numbers from the Attack of the Clones Cross Sections book, it was written by a StarDestroyer.Net fanboi and they think the fire power of the setting is stupid levels of over powered (all because they not only took the notion that a Base Delta Zero "slags" as planets surface as literal, they also for no reason assumed that a single Star Destroyer could do it in a single volley... yeah....). To give you and idea of how stupid these numbers are, they state that a Accumulator class had an output of a 600 gigaton bomb per double turret, or 300 gigatons per cannon. Now while we don't know how much a turbo laser weighs but lets assume that each gun clocks in at @ ~6,100 tons (~10,000 US tons), that would mean that a ~4kg blaster rifle would have the output of ~73 tons of high explosives (120 US tons) per shot! While a blaster rifle is no doubt powerful but we clearly do not see a single blaster bolt dropping buildings! More realistically they do damage on par with at lest a 20mm HE shell going by original trilogy scenes, Di$ney Star Wars seems to have nerfed blasters a lot. I don't know about you but facing an army where the base level gun is as powerful as an 20×110mm round is pretty terrifying, no need to bump the power level up to stupid heh.
I think one curcial part you left out is the engine that powered this... Because seem to be like the harrier jet and it seem be place like ventilator pretty high. I have more vid on laat gunship none of talk about the thrust engine....hmm...
@@Halfscreen I thought you'd say that. There is actually some lore about it I think Lando modified it or something you can tell by the name that it was named after the pod in 2001 by Kubrick but that's very off Cannon. don't know if you'd want to mention that
please do videos about the shield heicarrier,the uss defiant,deep space nine, the enterprise(nix-01) more marvel and star trek videos please jeff anderson
The Heli-Carrier would be a great one to see, but would be hard to do and probably over 30 minutes long to cover everything. ;) I'd love to see it, though.
Please do Iden Versio's corvette the Corvus from BFII. Awesome vids watched almost all and subscribed just cause you didn't ask like all the others out there
Aren't those side doors pretty useless? There isn't much space there to warrant the door even opening. If the whole side was closed then it would be a different story. This is depicted in TCW show.
No, it could* carry 100kt missiles (among other variants, chemical, anti-matter, etc) but its standard anti-ground and anti-air missiles are not 100kt, they are variable yield up to maybe 0.1kt max yield.
Lol, why does the title say “UCS Republic Gunship”. The UCS gunship is a LEGO set, UCS standing for Ultimate Collector Series. Were people saying UCS Republic Gunship that much that people got it confused with the name of the actual thing?
I feel like I'm looking at a Russian 🚁 helicopter. They armed heavy to soften hot spots . And give coverage for troops withdrawing under fire . A design that's brilliant. If you got a transport why not make it a gunboat to.
