Why Vulture Droids are Actually GENIUS - The Best Designed Starfighter in the SW Universe?

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@marielawrence468 Год назад

I’ve always found it funny how the B-1s would treat the spider droids and vulture droids like pets in the clone wars tv show!

@zacharyweaver276 Год назад

I never noticed that but I love it

@TheWarmachine375 Год назад

They were adorable outside battle

@Dovah_Slayer Год назад

Honestly if the entire clone wars was just about the droids I'd still watch it

@zacharyweaver276 Год назад

@@Dovah_Slayer I'd love a series about some Clone Wars battle droids going off to do their own thing. Like the ones in Rebels who never shut down and escaped.

@Dovah_Slayer Год назад

@@zacharyweaver276 ooh that does sound cool

@RaynmanPlays Год назад

Clones: "We choose quality!" Droid ground army: "We choose quantity!" Vulture droids: "Why not both?"

@Nerobyrne Год назад

This was also mirrored in real life during WW2. The T-34 tank was this design philosophy in practise, although it's strength was in simplicity, not versatility. It is largely considered to the the most effective tank ever produced, because while it was simple enough to be produced in very large numbers, it's arms, armor and engine power could compete with most other tanks in 1v1. But because there were so damn many of them, it didn't matter that some German tanks were better by comparison. So the quality was good, but the quantity is what allowed the USSR to kick Nazi ass all the way to Berlin.

@sugdolomar Год назад

Droid Tri Fighters: I put the laughter in slaughter.

@interpl6089 Год назад

@@Nerobyrne Quality of T-34s Was Notoriously Bad, They Were Also Unergonomic, Firing 2 Shots a Minute Because no Turret Basket, Thier Optics Sucked and So On and So On... Of All T-34s Made, 82% was Lost, And That's Really Shit

@Nerobyrne Год назад

@@interpl6089 you should go correct Wikipedia then, please.

@interpl6089 Год назад

@@Nerobyrne I should, but i prefer books made by profesional historians, wikipedia is wrong about most tanks due to "biased" views...

@mattguy1773 Год назад

Vulture droids are not only practical but fun to draw

@THESLlCK Год назад

The REAL reason they’re so deadly. Looks that could kill

@CC--jk6cr Год назад

Vulture droids almost single-handedly caused the GAR’s shortage of clone pilots. Their numbers neutralized most advantages clone pilots could have enjoyed.

@legoferrari14 Год назад

It's quite telling that the few organics that were capable of outmatching the Vultures on a regular basis were force sensitives like Anakin, and even then they needed the super-light Eta-2 to keep up consistently.

@Madobe-Nanami Год назад

That and Tri's! Don't forget those Bad Boys

@HungPham-qq6me Год назад

It's really convenient that logistics are not at play. To sustain a prolonged repair and refit operations for such a delicate piece of hardware is going to be a nightmare. Remember, the more moving parts there are, the more chances you have of a malfunction or damage that needs immediate care. This is why with guns, the simpler ones that gets the job done, like the ubiquitous AK, is so loved.

@krosskreut3463 Год назад

@@HungPham-qq6me its the CIS, if it dont work, they will throw it to die in the battle no matter how, even if it has to ram or used as bombs or decoys, same for b1 droids

@HungPham-qq6me Год назад

@@krosskreut3463 and this would be their down fall. The Japanese did this to their own detriment. WW1 generals learned it the hard way that wasting potential fighting force in a seemingly bullheaded attack is a good one way trip to losing the battle due to lack of staying power. The ancient goths also learned of this the hard way too. Repair and refit is there for a reason. If a unit is capable of sustaining damage, leave the fight, get repaired and then get back to the action instead of being wasted, like so many of our ancestors found out, that unit is worth tens of disposables. With proper cycling, you can infinitely prolong your combat operations with unrelenting pressure as you replenish and repair your forces, fighting a battle of attrition. In contrast, disposables forces may seem great in their initial numbers, but without staying power, they would be quickly phased out unless serious reinforcements are inbound.

@ohuckabee Год назад

A cheap, effective multi-role fighter where the roles are space superiority and anti-infantry ground support *while the craft is on the ground*, able to be transported and deployed from non-carrier ships, effectively turning any given cargo bay with a fuel rod dispenser into a hangar, and able to pull maneuvers that humans are simply physically unable to keep up with? I can't think of a single fleet-based sci-fi game where these guys wouldn't be worth their weight in gold.

@andrewcopple7075 Год назад

I can. Literally any one where maintenance and upkeep would be a requirement for any period of time. The high number of moving parts on both the droids and their ships are avoided in almost all cases with actual military technology, and with good reason. You'd basically have to make the joints and supports on those fighters out of the same material you'd make a space elevator, with all the force you'd be putting them under. There's a reason there was no successor to the F-14, and that the Concorde/B-1's design has not been mimicked in any way in future plane designs. The reasons humans work so well with moving parts is that we're largely self-maintaining and healing.

@jackdenihan5333 Год назад

@@andrewcopple7075 then They just become drone missiles 🤷‍♂️ and maintaining isn’t a issue when your not using man hours Droids fixing droids as basically slave labor the maintenance cost comes from man hours also take away the walking capacity and you lose most the problems you speaking of and in space the forces wouldn’t be wearing it down like in atmosphere conditions 🤷‍♂️also it’s maintenance goes out the window when your not caring about human life and the cost is cheap They were deployed in hordes so losing them isn’t a issue at all

@romanberkutov2592 Год назад

@@andrewcopple7075 не обязательно, шарниры могут только помогать держать форму, с остальным может справлятся электромагнит. Он не только примагничивает истребитель к поверхности, позволяет летать, но и например скреплять части вместе, помогает ходить

@HungPham-qq6me Год назад

Air superiority is not what you think it is. You can have all the fighter you want, but without actual bombers, which these guys should not have due to them being designed for light weight carry and high-speed maneuvers, your fighters are as good as scrap flies when faced with a serious anchoring force, say, a single battle cruiser. Multi-role fighters are, in most cases, a bad choice, not because they aren't useful, but because people tend to think 'if I throw enough of these maybe they can also do X and Y even though they're not designed for it.' If you ask me, these work best as screen fighters, running interference as well as distraction and escorts for the actual specialists like bombers and heavy fighters or maybe even for larger ships I'm interception of enemy fliers.

@andrewcopple7075 Год назад

@@HungPham-qq6me Normally I would agree with you, but the star wars lore didn't do fighters and bombers correctly. In the original trilogy, a few X-wings and Y-wings were able to hit and run and destroy massive installations, leading me to believe that their secondary weapons were likely massively overpowered (which was nerfed incredibly in the sequel and in video games). The specific universe rules seemed to apply differently here, and the over-fixation on applying WWII logic meant that Y-wings were slower and less maneuverable without any real explanation based on size, only payload.

@TheWarmachine375 Год назад

The Vulture Droids have a unique language they speak that stands them out from the other Battle Droids of the Separatist Army.

@sideburngthepeacebringer27 Год назад

It’s the language of there creators the Xi Charrian.

@MasatakaEbina Год назад

Nah man it's the Minions from Despicable Me

@indianajones4321 Год назад

Geetsly’s: This ship was actually genius Creator of the ship: My genius, it’s almost frightening

@TheWarmachine375 Год назад

Imagine if the Rebel Alliance have gotten their hands on the Vulture Droids and reprogram them to be part of their fighter forces as they have to take what they can get from Clone Wars-era weaponry and equipment to fight the Galactic Empire.

@hebercluff1665 Год назад

Too bad they didn't have pappa palatine supporting them from behind the scenes

@thimovijfschaft3271 Год назад

They have used them in some battles both in legends and Canon. But they just had limited amounts of them because they weren't produced anymore

@smartfrenandromax6651 Год назад

Secret Space Program. Dune…

@Soundwave142 Год назад

That would have been awesome!

@calebbarnhouse496 Год назад

Rebels didn't really have the hanger space to field them properly, they used starcraft with hyperdrives for that reason

@hunterkiller1440 Год назад

Those droid space fighters were some awesome drones. Weird how Space Separatist and Space Empire factions are so much stronger than their land forces.

@twistedyogert Год назад

I don't understand why the Rebellion didn't use droid starfighters considering that they were strapped for manpower and could use droid starfighters as cannon fodder to protect their organic pilots which are far more valuable.

@hunterkiller1440 Год назад

@@twistedyogert Perhaps most of the droid manufacturers were turned into Imperial warmachines during the rise of the Empire. And maybe many harbored anti Droid sentiments, like Din Jarin.

@whee38 Год назад

@@twistedyogert the galaxy feared droids quite a bit after the Clone Wars. they were associated with Grievous's atrocities

@CC--jk6cr Год назад

The Separatist navy was so much more effective than its ground forces because ground based droid units were not as effective as organic units. But droid star fighter units make more economical sense and are often more effective when compared to manned star fighters.

@RedArmyShogun Год назад

You don't need to be stronger on land if you can nuke them from orbit and all they can do is screech. A bit like early Halo with the UNSC vs the Covenant. You can be the best fighter on the ground with tanks and planes against silly slow fighters and mortar tanks, but doesn't much matter when you kill them on the ground and a Cruiser Captain goes "Lol Nice Match. Start the glassing."

@alexanderhouser8793 Год назад

This is probably my favorite type of droid and I don’t think the clones wars gave them enough credit on how effective and deadly they really were

@alphacommander428 Год назад

like the series did with the whole CIS

@hectorzero8545 Год назад

I wish we had a republic commando series to really highlight the dangers of CIS droids and villains

@jimjam5570 Год назад

I think my favorite are the rollie boys.

@LaughingCrowcorp Год назад

Yeah you can tell they are truly menacing because every time they are dealt with in the Clones Wars they are taken as pretty much the biggest threat in the battle. (Other than someone like Grievous or Ventress )

@solarissv777 Год назад

Imagine if this were used instead of TIE fighters by the empire: always ready to deploy, perfect for overwhelming numbers tactic, and you can carry lots of them even on a ship with relatively small hangars. But even more interesting possibility would be developing TIE Vultures, basically vulture droids, but with TIE fighter propulsion, eliminating the 20 minute flight limit, while remaining relatively cheap. Another advantage of such a droid is that they could be a substitute for AT-STs.

@richardched6085 Год назад

I think the Empire actually did produce a Tie Droid Fighter. Combat Droids were considered taboo under the Empire which is why it didn't see mass deployment.

@solarissv777 Год назад

@@richardched6085 TIE Droid wasn't nearly as versatile

@brainplay8060 Год назад

TIE fighters would have been able to keep up with the Vulture droids no problem. Note that the best general purpose non-Jedi ship at the time was the V-19 for most of the war which could be matched by the fricken Ywing. Later came the Alpha Nimbus 2 Vwing which had no issue keeping up with even Tri-fighters. The TIE/Ln would surpass all of them. Ship tech just continued to get better and you see that in all later upgrades such as the Delta-7's upgrading into A-wings and Z-95's would be developed into Xwings.

@solarissv777 Год назад

@@brainplay8060 that's why I say: keep vulture geometry, but add TIE propulsion and possibly, better brains or the option to be controlled remotely. The main advantages of vultures are: they don't need hangars and they are always ready to be deployed.

@brainplay8060 Год назад

@@solarissv777 Better brains might be a possibility but considering how hated combat droids (or any droids) are by many, it's unlikely that anyone would research them. Vultures absolutely need hangers. Remember that their fuel only lasts like 35min. Refueling becomes the bottleneck for them so you need large hangers or at least many stations to keep up combat tempo. Hanging off of a ship is a slightly faster deployment gimmick but I wouldn't put too much credit to it.

@leandersearle5094 Год назад

A couple technical inaccuracies: the solid fuel slugs *were* the propellant, making the actual drives very compact. Most of the fuselage was power cells and associated equipment, with a fraction of the space used for various mechanical systems and the energy torpedo launchers. The rest of the video was fairly accurate.

@simonsaysdie3155 Год назад

Sure buddy

@memeprez1281 Год назад

Lemme guess since he doesnt have a huge channel that invalidates what hes sayin?

@leandersearle5094 Год назад

@@memeprez1281 Read the last sentence. You may wish to avoid inferences, I'm subbed and I like this guy.

@platyhelminthes2877 8 месяцев назад

I don't see how that's relevant. They're both most likely getting most of their info from the "Incredible Cross Sections" books. I would tend to believe that leandersearle is correct here - I don't think the IRL creators of the vulture droid ever really made a distinction between fuel and propellant.@@memeprez1281

@inquisitorgarza312 Год назад

Really the Confederacy was clever when using so many different droids to combat the Clone Army and they were extremely effective.

@SonicSanctuary Год назад

Oh yes very

@Nerobyrne Год назад

The problem is that the shows don't match the lore. That's why I liked the Battlefront games, even the more recent ones now that the predatory monetization was patched out. I loved them because they much more accurately showed off the strengths of the CIS. In the Clone Wars show, the Droids are basically helpless cannon fodder. Even though Jedi can block laser blasts, the sheer amount of plot armor in that show is actually ridiculous. Not that I dislike the show, it has a lot of great stories. But I wish the Droid army was more like an actual army, and less like the XP farm minions in MOBA games.

@evandugas7888 Год назад

@@Nerobyrne Well the show follows the best fighter in the galaxy. It does not show how poorly the Jedi did on average. Anakin is just amazing

@Nerobyrne Год назад

@@evandugas7888 yeah but he's not that amazing. There's plenty of battles shown where he would have to have been hit. Not to mention the clones are also OP. So much do that the show mocks it themselves in one scene.

@evandugas7888 Год назад

@@Nerobyrne I am not under crediting the clones. Simply stating out of wars commanders Anakin is just stated to be the best.

@nonyabisness6306 Год назад

The effectivness of Vulture-Droid's has to be seen in contrast to going up against highly-trained elite clones of an ideal genetic template. And where it takes a lot of time even to make clones, nevermind a natural organic up to the point of defeating Vultures...Vultures can be built in Factories rather quickly. I think the coolest thing about them is how they will sit on the hull of their carriers and launch en masse like a swarm of bats.

@arrowheadlock8774 Год назад

Allways wondered why we havent seen Vulture Droids used by the Rebel Alliance more often. Stripping some Gallofree transports undersides to make room for some Vulture Droid racks seems like a great way to counter Tie Fighters (And would finally give the GR-75's a better reason to accompany Rebel Warships into battle)

@MonkeyJedi99 Год назад

You just fixed an entire class of ships in one paragraph!

@pretzelbomb6105 Год назад

Vulture Droids would be cool, but unfortunately would be ill-suited to the rebel alliance. Lots of moving parts, specialized components, high-quality fuel? Any rebel cell trying to maintain even one of these without major modification could be tracked down by by the trail of stolen spare parts alone.

@ParkerWarrior1 Год назад

@@pretzelbomb6105 And that is why rebels used X-wings, B-wings and AR-170s (and maybe some other). They all have changing wings, and have much higher price than vulture. (For price of 5 X-wings you could get like 40 vultures and some spare parts for them + you do not loose manpower when you loose droid...)

@pretzelbomb6105 Год назад

@@ParkerWarrior1 The only one of those with a number of moving parts even remotely close to a Vulture droid would be the B-Wing. There’s a big difference between wings that pivot and wings that spin and act like legs. Nonsensical production costs aside, that price is only taking into account the droids themselves and not the powerful computers and communications arrays required to use them at full power. An expensive asset like that on the front lines would be a hard sell for rebels early enough to get large amounts of vultures AND rebels late enough to have more accessible options like the A-Wing available. And then there’s the fact of the matter: they’re droids. A lot of rebels, especially in the early days, gained the majority of their combat experience in the Clone Wars. They lost homes, loved ones, even entire worlds to armies of droids, so it makes sense they’d have a few issues with using them. The ones willing to use them would then have to deal with the fact that the Empire would have gained full access to the CIS’s encryption and computer codes after the war ended, thus requiring the Rebels to either make entirely new command encryptions and software for the droids or accept the risk that, at any moment during a battle, their droids might suddenly turn off, or worse, on them.

@marshalllatta2073 Год назад

vulture droids are one of the coolest and interesting droids in Star wars

@lerneanlion Год назад

If Disney decided to make a movie or a series with the Separatist protagonists, how should the Battle Droids be portrayed? For one thing, the people might find the Spider Droids and Vulture Droids actually adorable when they are not attacking anyone and the Battle Droids are quite not that bad and even nice to have conversation with.

@RJALEXANDER777 Год назад

If the Separatists could show that their machines had a more endearing, gentle side to them, like in public broadcasts/meet and greets or something, it would honestly make for a pretty powerful propaganda tool. Makes me wish we saw more of the good Seps who wholeheartedly believed in their cause.

@DonaldWWitt Год назад

@@RJALEXANDER777 Man did you see The Clone Wars?! B1's were used so much for comedy they had to phase them out of the later parts because of how much sympathy people developed for the poor things!

@brainplay8060 Год назад

Fun fact: Most modern day aircraft have G limiters not because of the pilots but because the frame can't handle them that well. The F-16 and F-18 both have limiters at around 7.5G's. These can be removed during combat with a simple button push but note that the frame is under immense stress. After a heavy dogfight where they hit those G loads the aircraft has to undergo a thorough inspection for any frame damage. While is cute to imagine that an AI powered aircraft could survive 30G's, the fact is that the wings would sheer off first and that's only assuming there are no moving parts in the AI's brain. Softer metals & superconductors used in robotic brains would collapse under that kind of pressure. They would need to have the same tensel/inertia fields used by biologicals to prevent ship damage. Any sort of flowing substance such as fuel or gas for blasters would need to have an extra heavy pump as well or risk massive over or under pressure happening. People have this weird idea that fighters are hunks of solid metals when in fact they have to make compromises for weight/mass or lose much of their maneuverability.

@kerbalairforce8802 Год назад

Modern aircraft record their G loads throughout the flight so maintenance can see exactly how much those dirty officers abused there precious babies

@thepowerofluck2432 Год назад

Ahh interesting. Would such an issue take place on space? I'd imagine no because of the lack of gravity, so maybe the talk of speeds is max space speed

@brainplay8060 Год назад

@@thepowerofluck2432 Gravity isn't an issue but inertia is still deadly. Moving at speed will still put stress on components and fuel. That's why solid fuels and few moving parts are best for space travel. The Expanse does a good job of imitating the effects.

@Swiff-RR Год назад

I've watched this once and I'll say this, if the vultures were shielded, sentient, and creative then 15 (individual unit) of them will be more deadly then even a squadron of TIE Defender (in my opinion). Also vulture droids can communicate with each one another via mechanical clicking which is identical with the way their maker communicate to one another

@dareka9425 Год назад

The B1s and the Vultures are my favourite droids from the prequels. They are just such great designs: easy to mass produce, easier to transport and quite versatile. Too bad their were held back by less than stellar AI and commanders and practically designed to fail from the very start.

@drunown9756 Год назад

literally designed to fail

@codename618 Год назад

I'd love to see a video on the Tri Fighter, as well as any other underrated starfighters (I'm wondering if the TIE Fighter is secretly genius).

@suicidemnk3y186 Год назад

Its not. The only advantages it really had was how cheap they could be made and its overall speed and maneuvering. No shields, terrible armor and verry little weaponry. Its pilots carried it.

@ajitaumesh Год назад

nope mate

@leandersearle5094 Год назад

@@suicidemnk3y186 It's advantages weren't as a fighter, but as an ideological tool. They were portrayed as the menace that Vulture Droids actually were.

@zigzaghyena3633 Год назад

@@suicidemnk3y186 To be fair that "Little weaponry" could punch straight through an X-Wings shields like they weren't even there. The rest of it though, yeah those pilots had to be either brilliantly skilled or downright suicidal.

@RJALEXANDER777 Год назад

The TIE fighter has a few pros to it, but is essentially what the vulture droid was done worse.

@cellianexurianity5021 Год назад

Since you mentioned the "less superior starfighters" used by the seperatists, could you also do a video on the trade federation scarab starfighters?

@brickandmortor1251 Год назад

In both design and use in the clone wars, the vulture droids were one of the best combat droid that the seperatist created. Also they have a sort of crazy quality to them when seen in non-combat scenes. Also, it was one of the first LEGO Star Wars sets I ever owned.

@zacharyweaver276 Год назад

Now I want a video on the tri-fighter droid if that hasn't been done yet

@RelativelyBest Год назад

You know, if you scale it up a bit and replace the head with a canopied cockpit, it's basically a way better version of the TIE fighter concept.

@zexalbrony4799 Год назад

You talk about the Vulture Droid but don't mention the craziest thing about them, you can slice off the top of their head, put your hand into the wires, and take direct control of it. The Mace Windu manvour. lol.

@dukethighwalker6839 Год назад

That's actually called the Starbuck maneuver, as it's clearly lifted directly from the BSG reboot. I don't recall coming across this before, is it Disney SW?

@zexalbrony4799 Год назад

@@dukethighwalker6839 No, it's from the 2003 Clone Wars Micro series.

@dukethighwalker6839 Год назад

@@zexalbrony4799 Oh yeah, so it is. I stand corrected.

@garrettwilson8471 Год назад

Imagine Darth Vader having his own personal vulture droid, that would be just as horrifying as Darth Vader having his own personal magna guard droids on top of that.

@Dovah_Slayer Год назад

I love the vulture droids and would love to command a swarm of them

@EVA-UNIT-13 Год назад

I've always loved the design and just the idea of it going from flight to ground on a dime, I just love it!

@ericzaiz8358 Год назад

Honestly imagine a Vulture droid with tie engines and a Tri fighters brain. Be a fun deal.

@rakaydosdraj8405 Год назад

The Vulture is basically an Early Legends Tie Droid (from Dark Empire) anyway.

@darkfire321000 Год назад

In all honesty, the vulture droid was under utilized by the cis, you could turn any large frigate or even civilian craft into a carrier for these things

@Idkidkidk716 Год назад

What is been interesting if the republic had remote piloting for all of their starfighters it would not only be less risk for their pilots but there would be no death if the starfighter was destroyed then they would not have such a pilot shortage for a galaxy far far away it doesn’t seem that would be too far-fetched then they could have a starfighter that could be turning that could make turns like the vulture droid and go to detail with it even if they couldn’t be a gas planets away they could still have VR or remote piloting on board of the venotor class star destroyer

@Tenchi212 Год назад

Droids like these are exactly why i wanted a Clone Wars era movie based on a CIS perspective, it would have been glorious to see. Unforunately i'll never get to see it, as i certainly won't touch any Star Wars stuff made by Disney after the Obi-Wan travesty.

@supercharged5-39 Год назад

What was wrong with obi wan? I think it was good

@theknight1573 Год назад

@@supercharged5-39 Id say dont bother, people just want to crap over new SW stuff wether it is based on truth/logic or not... Disney did ruin things (and the sequel thrilogy contains imo the worst movies) but I think they did nail most of the intermediate movies and shows. Rogue One and the Mandalorian especially I like, and Obi-Wan also works very well imo.

@dboi5582 Год назад

Damn the vulture droid really does have a space engineers esque speed cap. It's a shame too, with an acceleration of 38000 m/s^2 in the time it would have taken an organic pilot to see the droid aim and fire at it (roughly one second and thats being generous), it could have been anywhere within a 19km radius.

@kawliga_the_plastic_indian1673 Год назад

I love how the “heads” on these and b-2s are almost identical to the og b-1

@phalamy9180 Год назад

I could imagine one of these babies with a really high class AI in them could cause a rediculous amount of damage. One of them work at maximum capacity would truly be a sight to see.

@firepower7017 Год назад

Then you would need to modify the ship to accommodate such an upgrade. Not to mention it would lose its cost effectiveness. Besides, the tri fighter was just that. But nobody sing praise to such a thing.

@sharkmano1138 Год назад

@@firepower7017 machine learning?

@firepower7017 Год назад

@@sharkmano1138 The issue is mostly fitting each fighter with an independent AI and packing it with advanced fighter knowledge? I know that the CIS has managed to cram such tech into smaller droid types. But the heavily streamlined body seems to be an issue.

@sharkmano1138 Год назад

@@firepower7017 and there's Palpatine's demonization of the battle droids

@teleportedbreadfor3days Год назад

Trade Federation: *introduces Vulture Droids to replace battle droid-piloted ships* Battle Droid Pilots: “THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!”

@minicle426 Год назад

I like how you can see shades of the Tie Interceptor in it.

@Trash_Cat21 4 месяца назад

The Vulture droid is my favorite starfighter. I love their personalities as well as their versatility in different combat scenarios.

@johannesbuchholz3293 2 месяца назад

My favorite ship in all of Star Wars. You can keep your Millennium Falcon, your X-wings and TIE fighters. I'll take these guys any day.

@StrikerFX47 Год назад

By far one of my favorite starwars vehicles of all time. I love their sleek and elegant design.

@NickFriends Год назад

Most people look at CIS droids and dismiss them as useless garbage, not taking things like plot armor into consideration. Yeah those vulture droids get clapped by Anakin Skywalker, but this dude is literally one of the strongest jede and best pilots ever. Imagine being a regular pilot and having to deal with these guys

@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll Год назад

The prequel trilogy really had some amazingly memorable designs when you think about it.

@wordze Год назад

I always loved how the Vulture Droids chatted with eachother in thier cute, highpitched gibberish :D

@kola2551 Год назад

Vulture Droids have such a cool, sleek looking design, reminds me of the TIE Interceptors but more streamlined. Would love it if you did a similar video on the Droid Tri-Fighter. It's unique appearance (and amazing performance in Battlefront 2) makes it my favorite starfighter in Star Wars

@thelegitpilot135 Год назад

1:14 Is that a Vulture Droid from SimplePlanes? Hah! That’s awesome!

@Jeartozer Год назад

The walker mode is even more dangerous when you consider they could land, take a few steps while unloading missiles into an enemy force, then hop up and zip away at 1000kph... Then come back around to provide air support/strafing runs on enemy positions... If only the Seps hadnt been handicapped the whole war, to prevent them from ever winning

@zachelkins1229 Год назад

I would love to see a similar breakdown of the trifighter. That said between the two I would likely take more vulture droids, especially if I could get them refit with a proper shield generator and maybe a better droid brain. Keep them in smaller numbers and give them intellect to really abuse their resistance to acceleration. Now if I were more restricted in hanger space yeah I'll pay the premium for trifighters, but if I have the bankroll and hanger space to do so rocking swarms of vultures is probably the way to go. The fuel problem is the only major hurtle I see myself regularly complaining about

@IRMentat Год назад

cool design, neat features and "multi-role", certainly VTOL. It just needed at least 1 centrally mounted regular gun tho (ideally mounted on the droid "head" for CIWS), all those wing based weapons lead to numerous problems, even if you can articulate them mid-flight.

@schishne7546 Год назад

Always thought that especially the vulture droids and commando droids were badass The commando droid is basically a way more athletic arc trooper that does flips, is able to use blades and seemingly any kind of ranged weapon aswell Vulture droids flyby sounds badass, is basically AA and AG, has a way smarter profile than for the Torrent or ARC Fighter, its able to launch vertically in just 3 secs and since its a something organic it isn't really G-Locked and can theoretically pull crazy moves

@Mizzle420420 Год назад

On a side note the term variable geometry wings comes from real world aircraft design in which the wings can change configuration, positions, or retract to better suit high or low speed handling (in some cases independently of eachother as on the F-14). Most commonly seen on the US Mulitrole Fighter - Grumman F-14 Tomcat and Super Tomcat (which most people know from TopGun as flown by Tom Cruse). Other examples are the US Fighter - F-111 "Ardvaark" (which not only had variable geometry "swing-wings" but also a variable geometry air intake spike), US bomber - Rockwell B-1 "Lancer" (funny it shares the name of the B-1 Battle Droid), European Mulitrole Attacker - Panavia Tornado ADV, Russian Fighter - Mikoyan MiG-27 "Flogger", and Russian Bomber - Tupolev Tu-22M "Backfire". The video game series Ace Combat famously created many of its own concept aircraft models with more advanced styles of variable geometry wings such as the X-02 Strike Wyvern (which has what's called switch-blade wings) , XFA-27 (similar to an advanced version of the F-14), and ASF-X (Which has a BatWing type that appears to "flap" up or down when transitioning). Variable Geometry Wings have also seen a fair amount of use in Japanese Anime such as the VF-1 Valkyrie from "Macross" (also known as Vertitech Fighter from the north American adaptation "Robotech"). There are some funny stories of F-14 pilots expanding and retracting just one of their two variable geometry wings to "wave" at eachother mid flight as a way of jokingly saying hello to other pilots.

@jacoblamica4534 Год назад

Vulture droid is by far my favorite starfighter and space bound droid, simply for how versatile it is.

@vendetta9348 7 месяцев назад

One of my favorite droids, all they needed was a better software to be more intelligent and shields. They could also create some special units that had a hyper drive and more power to scape from battle and regroup

@jeffagain7516 2 месяца назад

Thanks again Folks! I've always considered the Vulture Droids an extremely cool looking design and they were certainly formidable in any actions they got tangled in. Next to the Malevolence and Buzz Droids, probably my fave of all the Droid flight weaponry. :)

@joekerr22 Год назад

Please make more tech based videos. Let’s get a breakdown of all the blaster models in a multiple part series. Love the channel.

@zeratul____1228 Год назад

Considering how later the Empire would start going cheap on their fighters without giving a damn about pilot safety its a wonder that they didn't just use Droid fighters given the success of the Vulture droid. However I can see Tarkin not liking the idea as he was a veteran of the Clone Wars and plus the political pressure from shifting their fighters to being fully Droid controlled would have been hell for the image. But given how they were bent on inducing "fear" in their enemies it would have been better resource wise to just to use Droid ships so the actual human pilots they had wouldn't keep getting slaughtered.

@nicholaswalsh4462 Год назад

Honestly, the Vulture Droid's best aspect is its affordability. It didn't need to be the best at anything. It could afford to be lackluster, since it cost far less to operate, maintain, and replace than a manned craft.

@l33tninj4studios Год назад

Seek perfection: ...sounds heretical. Factory cathedrals: Shit... they're Slaaneshi Hereteks....

@Josh_Hammond Год назад

I always think the vulture droids were cool and made sense because droids don't need oxygen and other stuff living beings need. The design was cool and can be walkers was cool too. Plus droids could be big or small in design.

@danielknowles3051 Год назад

1:12 Wasn’t expecting a Simpleplanes screenshot in this video lol

@dogloversrule8476 Год назад

Great video as always l. Can you please do a video on the tridroid? Thanks!! Also, can you maybe make this into a series on different starfighters?

@sebieffer8595 Месяц назад

The way vulture droids walk reminds me to pterodactyls

@willyvereb Год назад

That is all a very flattering summary but not sure why you deride the TIE Fighter. That craft was so revolutionary it pretty much redefined the starfighter doctrine of the Galactic Civil War. Its simplistic focus on performance basically rendered most Clone Wars era fighters obsolete. Sure, it took a while to be that good (for a long time its maneuverability in combat had a sharp drop due to the laser cannons' power drain) but once the definitive GCW era model was out it rendered most craft of the Rebels outside of the new X-Wings obsolete in the fight. Including the Vulture Droids the Rebels had access to in some quantities.

@akumaking1 Год назад

I just realized the Xi Char act similar to the Adeptus Mechanicus in terms of treating technology as holy

@furballproto3596 Год назад

Keep in mind there is a variant of the vulture droid that's double even triple the normal vulture's size

@admiralcasperr Год назад

What were the "more generic starfighters piloted by battle droids" used by the trade federation prior to single droid starfighters ?

@Generalphoenix8438 Год назад

I'd love to see these made in real life. I'd imagine so many applications this design could be effective for.

@stampybird742 Год назад

0:12. Did anyone else notice he used a Hyena bomber instead of Vulture droids

@luisdoyer3260 Год назад

It would've been interesting if the rebels were able to reprogram squadrons of vulture droid, definitely would have helped.

@ravenwisha Год назад

The Vultures always bring to mind Cylon fighters from the “recent” series revival…

@therealfreshswobo6443 Год назад

Back in the days, a VultureDroid was my first lego set

@edwardstevens80 Год назад

Yes !!! Yes !!! Please do a video on the Droid Tri-Fighter as well. You rock GeeeeeeeeT

@smartfrenandromax6651 Год назад

Secret Space Program. 1997's Macross Digital Mission VFX' intro featured a varant of the Droid Starfighter, the game and the Macross itself of course, are about Variable Fighters. See also 'reimagined' Battlestar Galactica's Cylon Starfighter.

@greatazuredragon Год назад

Nice episode.

@shanenolan8252 Год назад

Vulture droid was very effective in the ryloth arc . Even as canon fodder. The took out the republic task force ( squadron)

@insaneredneck3917 Год назад

Do a video on the tri fighter. It was my favorite ship in the original battlefront 2 and I still think it’s just terrifying to see flying after you

@lokilaufey1189 Год назад

YES PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON THE DROID TRI FIGHTER!!!!!! Loved the video

@robertthompson4393 Год назад

Both and yes do a video on the tri fighter as well.

@bamboozle23k Год назад

Great vid!

@aurathedraak7909 Год назад

Well this and the tri fighters are my favorite starfighter in the starwars universe And yes do a video about the trifighter and other miscellaneous starfighters in the cis

@viperson9818 Год назад

Vulture droids are very unique. Not many Star Wars droids are like this one. A star fighter first and a bonus it can be quickly deployed to fight infantry on the ground. Or a insanely great capital ship defense droid. Protects the hangar, can be used to dog fight, or even invade enemy hangars like that one vulture droid in TCW movie.

@Arbiter22J Год назад

I love the CIS and it’s great to see it get the attention it deserves

@alloy11 Год назад

I always loved making these in ksp and slap on some bd armory missiles

@jtfbreedlove Год назад

The Vulture droid & X-wing are my favorite star wars fighter designs.

@scottthewaterwarrior Год назад

I still feel like these things would be pretty limited in the anti-personel role. Only having missile launchers seems like a big drawback as they would only get a couple of shots and the potential for collateral damage is quite high. I'm picturing them taking out their own command ship after engagingly enemies that have infiltrated it.

@jonathansullivan6706 Год назад

I thought about that as well, but what most people don't realize is that those twin launchers on the main fuselage are energy torpedo launchers. They don't use physical ammunition, but rather fire a contained plasma charge that is very much like a souped up blaster bolt. The energy torpedos are limited to being unguided munitions, but when using them, the fighter is dependent only on its power reserves and the thermal limitations of the launching system.

@KnifeChampion Год назад

love the intro

@johnpatz8395 Год назад

I’ve always thought these, tri-fighters, and maybe even Hyena bombers, should have been retained by the Empire, not instead of ties, or other fighters, but to supplement them. They didn’t need to use space inside ISD’s, but instead could have been mounted in some sort of cargo/holding blisters on the outside hull, and even be refueled and rearmed inside them. They should only need to enter the hanger for repairs. Additionally, as Vulture droids were often viewed as almost disposable, why weren’t groups loaded up with explosives and made to do suicide runs at selected weak points of enemy vessels, such as the bridge, hanger bays, weapon emplacements, etc…?

@davidragan9233 Год назад

Sounds like the best way to counter them are flak missiles, along with droid poppers.

@globin3477 Год назад

I gotta say... looking at them again, these vulture droids remind me of Azdarchid Pterosaurs, albiet with a shorter neck.

@forcierlogan Год назад

Yes do a video about the tri fighter

@IexoPeoa Год назад

If I recall correctly, the original ones could also close their top and bottom wings together, making them look sleeker, but more importantly, hiding most of their weapons from prying regulatory eyes...

@FinalPenance Год назад

I have always loved the Vulture Droid

@drewlovelyhell4892 Год назад

3:05 "roughly 3 and a half meters in width and length". To be precise, 4.9m in width, 6.9m long.

@ahumanoidtroodon1074 Год назад

Vulture droids are genius because they have the durability of a TIE, superior manoeuvrability and reaction time, and a comparable armament (The lasers are weaker but they are equipped with missiles), all whilst being a third of the price. Note: Since they are from two different time periods it’s slightly unfair to compare the two from a technical standpoint, but more there traits relative to other ships of their time.

@user-ud8zy2dv1k Год назад

considering the scale of those things, i'm guessing that the 'solid fuel slug' is either REALLY small or weirdly flat to fit in that main body. if it's just a small slug, which would explain the short combat duration, couldn't an 'autoloader' attachment be rigged up to extend the droid's operating time? i assume that there was either that or an external battery pack considering that they could even be used on ships without dedicated hangers(where the refueling bays would be).