Note that the ship is so large you can only see a portion on the screen at a time, and the appearance is limited by its early '80s home video game console graphics, but it is BIG, flat, and triangular.
Posted on 08/28/2017 1:55:06 PM PDT by C19fan
For snarky defense wonks like me, a new Star Wars movie means one thing: new military hardware to lambast. George Lucas' original sci-fi trilogy may have inspired a billion-dollar franchise, but it is a series that willfully abandons common military tactics, simple physics, and even common sense in the effort to create a cool new toy. To be fair: Star Wars tech is cool, and the original stop motion AT-ATs were a cinematic masterpiece. But after a moment of reflection, you realize they make idiotic military weapons.
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I kind of think it jumped the shark with episode 1, and it's done nothing but go downhill (like, freefall downhill), ever since. Actually, it started in Return of the Jedi with the freaking ewoks.
The Empire never figured out nuclear weapons. Not so advanced after all. One tactical nuke = goodbye Hoth defenders.
But the worst thing about the JJ Abrams SW reboot is similar to the StarTrek reboot. The new master Jedi chick doesn’t bother with actually training to be a Jedi. Oh no. She just naturally can defeat others who have years of experience and training with laser swords. Just like that. Of course the movies are aimed at millenials who seem to have short attention spans and things like plot development and slow building suspense are beyond their ability to tolerate.
Star Wars Episode 4 - The Empire builds a Death Star at enormous expense and it is destroyed due to design flaw
Star Wars Episode 6 - The Empire builds a Death Star at enormous expense and it is destroyed due to design flaw
Conclusion. The Empire has a really powerful defense contractor’s lobby.
They the ones with constant breathless articles of all the particle beam and such weapons about to be deployed, real soon now?
This has always been a pet peeve. The Iron Man suit had a multiple targeting system. Combined with AI, a soldier from the future could identify and target all enemies in an area.
But of course, not as much fun.
Could they please take out the “It’s A Small World” ride?
And that's really what it's all about.
What would be even scarier is if Boston Dynamics gave it razor sharp mantis claws and glowing, multi-faceted eyes.
Little-known (or made-up) fact: The Ewoks weren’t the first choice. It was originally going to be Cabbage Patch kids but they wanted too large of a royalty share.
Yeah, reality tends to take the fun out of make believe.
But that Schwerer Gustav was just a bloody big cannon.
Its not an AFV, its a siege gun. It was meant to hang out far out of range and lob shells against concrete defenses.
They wanted a big cannon and the easiest way to train the thing was a section of curved railway.
A pretty good, cheap, reliable way to avoid giving the huge thing an equally huge traverse mechanism.
Now, you can argue that giant cannon like that were obsolete with the coming of aircraft, and you would be right, and something of that size simply wasn’t cost-effective anyway, even if you had something to besiege that was so well fortified as to need the attentions of a gun of this size, and you would be right also.
That is exactly what they did!
Conclusion #2: Super-weapons are a mirage. There’s alway a cheap counter-weapon that your enemy can flood-the-zone with.
There are two classes of people who really like it.
Kids,
and Grandparents who spend more time watching the kids’ reactions than the spectacle itself.
Of course, they could get rid of the gun-toting goons herding you into the line, instead of just letting you walk past to enjoy something you like.
I don’t think the AT-ATs were the primary troop transport. They only carry 40 apiece. In general the imperial strategy with AT-ATs to use them as forcefield busters that also have troops while more troops come from a different direction. They’re very good at drawing a lot of attention which automatically makes other troops stealthy.
Well the SW dreadnaught design is just the Star Destroyer design but bigger. So it really goes back to ‘77. The Big Flat Triangle is the second thing we see in the first movie.
Uh...Star Was came out many years before that video game...
Except that the first three Star Wars movies were released in 1977, 1980, and 1983. How did they rip off something that came later?
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