Star Wars: T-47 "Snowspeeder" - Vehicle Breakdown
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- Spacedock breaks down the Incom T-47 Airspeeder.
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Saw the minisode. Loved the motion comic animation, good script, voice acting needs some work. I get it’s not the finished product and simply showing what you has enough done but critisium helps. Especially in early works.
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Wish I could get behind that...but I didn't enjoy it.
WatchForIce Just saying, he said it was a rough sketch and very rudimentary/low quality. But it’s OK if you still don’t like it, just maybe check out an official episode when it comes, vs just a pilot.
I have a question about Halo wouldn't it have been more effective to have hundreds of small MAC cannons in turrets because hundreds of smaller rounds hitting a shield would have had the same or more mass then one or even 2 of the larger MAC rounds and have also caused more damage to the shields system
I always saw the Snowspeeders as the epitome of Rebel "We're screwed but let's try it anyway" tech. I saw them as like tugs for Hoth that they strapped guns to and said "Good luck lads see you on the other side".
That's basically what it is. They were civilian transports first, so it is, as if you attached two guns at a normal car and are like: Let's try it, what could go wrong!
and dont forget, they weren't even design for hoths climate either
Jonas Brauer the technical of the starwars universe
"here is a 50 cal and a bicycle, MacGyver that shit for us"
The Volkswagen bug was originally designed so it cold be converted to a light tank with a couple of medium or heavy machine guns. Similar thought process to this it seems.
Something everyone needs to remember with Star Wars and "Cargo Haulers", Repulsor Beds are a thing. The function of the T-47 was the use the Harpoon and Tow Cable to literally tow hovering flatbeds and trailers of cargo behind them. you literally see this very concept used in Star Wars Rebels Season 1 when Imperials are using the 74-Z Speeder Bike, yes, those crotch rockets from Endor, to move pallets of cargo on repulsor beds, that would have a total mass well in excess of several time's the bike's own mass. So calling something a Cargo-Anything, does not instantly apply that it means "Internal" Cargo Space.
It's kind of amazing to think a sliver of the Imperial war machine was harassed and brought down on Hoth by a small group of flying tugs.
One advantage the T47 has...its manufactured using a civilian airframe, and surplus hardware.. so you can get parts for it without alerting Imperial snoops... also they are small and would be easy to smuggle onto a world where a rebel garrison was hiding out to defend against such things as imperial scouts, chicken walkers, transports, and hovertanks...A flight of T-47s could be based well outside of a colony or in very remote areas fly at low altitude to a target area below treetop levels hit with a decent punch. Then run like a bunny back to remote areas under the cover of trees, and terrain, which would make pursuit by fighters tricky. ( Think SAS attacks on German airfields in WWII, using machine gun armed jeeps and land rovers)
somehow Im imagining the Snowspeeder just going into a colony, grappling cargo containers that are out in the open, and then towing them back to the base for supplies, while the pilots just say "Yoink!"
Hmmmm, Yeah I can see that....and knowing the rebellion is probably happened.
William Byrd. Especially on a world were these craft are already common place, an extra crate of or two of parts here an there would go completely unnoticed by anyone. Also with many of these moving around, it would be hard to tell which ones on the sensors was the real target. Fighters or other craft responding to an attack would be confused as to which ones to follow if the attackers just blended in to the traffic.
I hadn't thought of using ground traffic as sensor camo...just a another perk to these underpowered under gunned"useless gnats" just from a technical and tactical point of view kind of wimpy...but if ya look at some non technical, strategic and tactical aspects...they seem a lot more useful .
all this talk has me imagining an Imperial convoy suddenly beginning to explode as a flight of T47s painted up to resemble yard tugs or delivery vehicles burst out of an old warehouse district to shoot up the supply and troop carriers then heads down a busy transit way heading for the wilderness...Speeder bikes and TIE Fighters screaming in to pursue.
The TIE fighters have to break off due to buildings bridges and then trees, while the speeder bikes have to swap shots with the rear gunner of the fleeing T47s..all the time the commander is swamped by reports of vehicles that look like the fleeing vehicles all over the place.
a nice visual sequence of Speeders and speeder bikes going ballistic down crowed streets, though alleyways, then out into the forests as the Tie Fighters come streaming in for occasional strafing funs through the overhead cover....
Then a nice climatic scene where the t47s run out of trees and have to break into the open ... TIEs in hot pusuit... just as they get in range the lead TIE explodes and a flight of T65 X-wings. or Headhunters rips into the pursuing imperials.
I'd pay to see that LOL...
@@wbnc66 I tend to go the more sneaky route. A small group of about 4 or 5 speeders with camo'd, snap-on weaponry. In amongst many ordinary ones delivering stuff to an imperial base of some sort (rocket pods are my favorite). These once inside the defenses suddenly drop their camo like an old Q-ship and launch their payload at their targets. Before the guards can respond and in the confusion of regular ones running, the attackers make their escape to pre-arranged wharehouses where the weapons pods are quickly removed and new cargo is attached so they blend back into the back ground as legit cargo haulers while the imperials search for them in vain.
Did… did they seriously take the armor plates off of the Y-Wings to make them easier to service, then stick them on the Snowspeeders? XD
Thats... a very rebel thing to do.
I can just imagine a frustrated rebel maintenance technician, dumping a bunch of Y-wing armour plates in some inconsequential storage Bay, finally glad to be rid of the things, leaving just before a very stressed out engineer walks in, needing A quiet area to think, having no success in solving The survivability issues of the new commercial AirSpeeders The alliance had just acquired..........
I really wish we got more airships and combat air speeders in Star Wars.
hmmm maybe a new spin off series "sky wars: battle in heavens"
We did get the Tie Striker in Rogue one
"Rouge squadron break left and right once we leave the hanger bay. Don't go head on against those Walkers, flank them.
Their guns can only aim to the front, stay out of their forward arc and they can't hit you."
The part about them being useless against fighters is pretty accurate. Have you ever tried shooting down TIE fighters in these in Star Wars Battlefront?
Yes and I still have more tie kills in a t-47 than I do in an A-wing or X-wing
4k views with 1 unlike. Must have been an AT-AT operator.
Or General Veers.
His AT-AT got rammed by a snowspeeder.
Or maybe it’s admiral Ozzel from beyond the grave lol after all “he is clumsy as he is stupid”
*straps rockets to the airspeeder and sends it to space*
*forgets oxygen and dies of asphyxiation*
i always wondered if they could modify these speeders for space use
@@devildavin they probably could but the modifictions would be so extensive that effectively they would be designing and building a completely new vehicle, they would have to: reinforce the frame to make it completely airtight or add a spacesuit to the pilot,
add some kind of heat sheild for atmospheric reentry
add some kind of engine because repulsorlifts only work close to the ground,
add thrusters for manouverbility in space
install far more extensive heat regulation systems (because in space temperatures of +/-150c are not uncommon)
and those are just off the top of my head
@@devildavin you probably could but itd take some time
Personal favorite ship right there. It's truly a work of art.
Spiderman:"Hey Guys! Remember that scene from that old movie "Empire Strikes Back"?"
War Machine: God, Tony, how old is this kid?
"You remember that part on the ice planet, with the walking thingies?"
There is no way a nerd like Peter Parker doesn't know what an AT-AT is!
Iron Man:"I think the kid's onto something."
War Machine:"Go high,Tony. Go high."
@@DimoB8 maybe they were concerned about too much copyright? Or did Disney own Lucasfilm when Civil War came out?
minor correction, the snowspeeders had Blaster Cannons, not laser cannons, and that's why they couldn't penetrate the armour, a true laser cannon like what's equipped to an X-wing could penetrate the armour
The Battle of Hoth was an excellent showcase of the snow-speeder and it also showcased the Empire as a massive threat.
I’d also like to note that there is a “sandspeeder” variant of the T-47, designed for arid climates. I always wanted a lego model of one of these when I was a kid, great work!
I had a lego model of one of these when i was kid! I still do!
and an X-wing!
Well there's a lego sand speeder now.
shop.lego.com/en-US/product/Sandspeeder-75204
Bradley Callaway But the only LEGO Sandspeeder is from 2017... You are still a kid.
X-Wing no he’s referencing the snowspeeder varient, not the sandspeeder
Alex Boehm Oh... r/wooosh to me.
Anyone else remember the short story "Slaying Dragons" where the one character talks about messing with these to get them to work on Hoth?
I love this channel because it's straight to the point awesome facts heavily research and gives the fans what they want
Snowspeeders are like those little gnats that fly around and bother you. I'm pretty sure that is what the AT-AT pilots were thinking when they were flying around them.
Until they started using their cables....then they did more than just bother.
Thanks, nice video. I liked the reference to adding Y-Wing components, as in the original concept the "Snowspeeders" were modified Y-Wing cockpits. Nice touch.
These were the first things I bought for my rebel army in Legion. Love em to death.
Excellent video! Glad this iconic aircraft got the recognition it deserves!
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Something I would have loved to see in ESB. The rebels entangle a second walker with the tow cable trick, but the crew recognizes the tactic and stop moving. Though immobilized, the walker is still very dangerous. Worse, the walker deploys its compliment of snow troopers to cut the cables and free the walker. Further hitting home the fact that the Rebels can't win, they can only slow down the Imperial forces.
That wouldnt work either, there are two spots on the AT AT that are very vunerable to Blaster fire as they are not armored. The first is right behind the head of the AT AT where it connects to the Cargo Hold. If you blast there it will cause an explosion and severe the head from from the AT AT. The other place is to the rear of the AT AT between the rear legs. That is the fuel tank for the entire AT AT and some well aimed blast will cause this think to explode. Also if you were to release the snow troopers, exactly what the AT AT's did to the Rebels is what the T-47 would do to the snow troopers not to mention the Rebels already had troops on the ground so it wouldnt be hard to pick them off
One thing I like about the T-47 airspeeder is honestly the airbreaks i just love seeing them open and close while in motion
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please consider giving us a breakdown of The Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato (Argo from Star Blazers), the Serenity from Firefly and the Roger Young from Starship Troopers
Brian,
Daniel has done a video on Serenity. Search for Firefly under the Playlists.
I second the other suggestions.
In the Rebel Files Poe said that while he can fly anything, he won't fly everything and views flying a T-47 speeder as trying to steer a block of wood.
Got a feeling that this snowspeeder would be a real thing soon in the near future
"Trained" lol. I always saw the rebel alliance as a "let's see what you can do and not die" kind of training
It would be sick to have one. No more plane tickets required!
I've seen/heard on several occasions and sources that the Snowspeeders were armed with blaster and not laser cannons. Hence the reason why in the battle of Hoth they couldn't damage the AT-AT's.
Yet in the book Isard's Revenge the X-Wings just blasted AT-AT's with their lasers and a proton torpedo taking them out.
I am so glad you mentioned it is a converted industrial vehicle (basically a tow truck/forklift in the shipyards to help move the cargo bins) no one ever mentions that. Great video and am a new sub now.
Pretty neat how they designed the Unstable Terrain Artillery Transport (UT-AT), seen in ROTS, with a front end strongly similar to the T-47. Apparently a design that was carried over, years down the line on a very different kind of hovering vehicle.
Surprised you left the T-47 alone for so long.
Anzac-A1 he gave him to his anger
You know the Alliance has fallen on hard times if they scrap Y-Wings for _armour._
I would love to see Spacedock and Metanerdzlore argue about the T-47 cause spaedock talks bad about them but Metanerdz likes them
I had a lot of the toys of ships and characters from Star Wars everything from the snowspeeder to the Millennium Falcon to the X-Wing to the Tie-Interceptor to the AT-AT and with the characters I had Han Solo,Luke Skywalker,See-Threepio to a Jawa to Artoo Detoo to Chewbacca to Obi-Wan Kennobi and of course Darth Vader.
I always enjoyed the design of this thing. If modifications continued with slight changes to the frame they could have been a great, cheap ground support vehicles.
These snowspeeders were involved in many of my LEGO Star Wars battles.
A great close air support vehicle! Too bad they didn't have U-Wings for additional support.
This was a good breakdown 😎👍🏾
So happy the kickstarter went well!
"These factors made it sluggish", soooooooo it's a slowder?
What they should have done is 1 of 2 things if not both.1 They should have brought more ships to bear on echo base. They could certainly spare the numbers. At this point, they could either overpower the planetary shield with a brute force attack or wait them out while outside the range of that ion cannon. The other thing they could have done is send a small force of highly trained commandos to sabotage the shield generator. They definitely had enough skilled personnel at this point. Doing both of these would be extremely prudent as the large fleet would draw focus away from the commando squad. I have to say though, I was a big fan of the snow speeder design and still am.
I can't imagine that the tow cable trick against AT-ATs would have worked more than once, maybe even twice, before the Empire or AT-AT crews got smart and added modifications to AT-ATs to keep the tow cable trick from working. The simplest solution would be to put cutters on the front of each leg, similar to what the Allies equipped jeeps with to counter wires strung across a road at neck level. They wouldn't even need to be to super sharp, just have a basic edge and the power of the walker's legs moving would do the rest.
Not a bad combat performance for what is, essentially, a weaponized space forklift.
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I hope future OT works can give us Snowspeeders vs TIE Strikers. Now That would be a fight to remember! :D
Good video nice job
i don't think the snowspeeders actually slowed the AT-ATs, but did stop two of them (three if Hobbie successfully rammed the lead AT-AT's cockpit, as implied in the novelisation, i haven't seen a deleted scene of this, so I don't know if it was filmed) and stopped a sizeable force of stormtroopers from entering the base/ engaging rebel ground troops before the completion of the evacuation.
That's like taking out a column of tanks with a few pickup trucks.
literal sarcasm Isis did it pretty well with their Toyota pick ups
@@Marcus51090 I know.
literal sarcasm did we ever find out how they where getting their hands on all those new trucks ???? Cause Toyota said they where not selling them to them
@@Marcus51090 probably whoever is providing funding for their operations.
Can you do next the ships from Elite Dangerous please?
The Rebellion finished installing the heating mechanisms into all the airspeeders just as they where informed the Empire had discovered them and they had to evacuate too.
Those snowspeeder miniature shots from Empire Strikes Back still hold up.
Ah yes, the massive glaring flaw of the AT-AT walker, it's long legs. Imposing but impractical, much like most of the Empire's equipment under the Tarkin doctrine.
It always botherd me that the cables were strong enough to keep the AT-AT legs together. But hey the power of the script right.
I’m baffled at the idea that the tow cable trip was an innovation in the heat of the moment rather than a specific tactic explicitly intended in the design (the AT-AT wasn’t exactly a surprising foe to face). There’s very little reason to include the harpoon gun on the already overloaded craft otherwise.
You would think the Rebel engineers would have known that the cannons on the speeder weren't enough to penetrate an AT-AT armour so honestly I don't know why they didn't have other options prepared like proton rockets or more high powered cannons. I mean the leadership did know a ground attack was inevitable if the Empire couldn't initiate an orbital bombardment right?
These things swarming in Empire at War were such a headache!
... That is strange that the Empire would use a ground force without some sort of air support. Even if they’re not designed for it, a simple squadron of TIE fighters might’ve been enough to ward off the airspeeder attack.
Or, y’know, use some TIE bombers to take out the shield generator.
Instead it looks like the Empire was planning for Hoth to be a protracted ground battle instead of a hasty retreat by the Alliance.
Contemporary air defenses at the time of Hoth might make ground strikes by unshielded snubfighters very bloody affairs. Imagine a battlefield where ground forces can engage any target in their line of sight at near light speed velocities with laser cannons and the idea of air strikes becomes very dangerous (remember the Rebels at Echo Base had weapons emplaced that could knock out Imperial Star Destroyers, I can imagine they had ones that could handle a TIE bomber too). TIEs are very likely good at taking care of civilian targets or hounding isolated Rebel ground troops on the run but against prepared defenses, their lifespan would be considerably lower. IRL we are seeing that precision artillery with guided munitions deployed at the company or even squad level is taking the place of air strikes as even man-portable air defenses are getting sufficiently good to take care of attacking bombers or helicopters; I could see that by the time Star Wars type weapons come into existence having heavily armored ground vehicles is the only thing you can hope to advance on the enemy with, we were almost there during the Cold War with the IFV and the idea that infantry was going to fight from inside an armored box on tracks because the battlefield was going to be filled with so much radiation and poison gas that nothing else was feasible.
If you harpoon an AT-AT's leg, and then start wrapping around the other legs in order to cable trip it, you'd have to make the cable taut to fully restrict the walker's leg movement. So in order to make that cable taut, you'd have to keep your speeder flying fairly slow so that you don't give your snowspeeder a sudden high speed jerk that rips out the tow cable and renders all your wrapping work for nothing, right?
I wish I wasn't so dang sweet,so dang sweet, so dang sweet, so dang sweet
I saw this as a totally half arsed ship like those Toyota pick ups ISIS where using not designed for combat but turned out it’s good at it
Do the Orville I think you'll like the life support system in which the walls of the ship are plant like fibre performing photosynthesis breathing with the crew.
I had the snow speeder toy as a kid
welcome to Norway. parts of the movie was film in Norway. So can i say i have been on Hoth
Did it bug anyone else there were no Tie Fighters providing cover or air support at the battle of hoth?
Even some Tie Bombers would of speed things up for the empire
the main reason for this was the Shield generator. High-speed aircraft would just slam into it like a brick wall, yet slow, lumbering walkers can walk right through. (points to the Clone Wars series for better explanations.) Had Ozle not been an idiot, they would have gotten the drop on them and had the air support they needed, resulting in the battle being over a lot faster than it was.
@@zerosen2141 thanks, watching this video just made me wonder why.
@@zerosen2141 Could have just dragged them through the barrier on cables or even parked them on top of the Walkers and taken off again once through.
The big question is why didn't the Rebels use X Wings or even Y Wings inside the shield to slaughter the AT-AT's? If your can handle deep space your can handle icy conditions.
Incom allowed rebels to steal X-wings. I wonder how the rebellion picked these up. But these seem to be poorly designed for cargo. Maybe incom had always intended rebels to refit it much like the Correlians
You really have a voice made for scfi my friend.
On a different note, the STFU OST in the background is just 👌
So the rebels had their own vulnerable craft equal to the German JU-87 Stuka dive bomber; it also couldn’t be used without air superiority already being achieved or without some kind of fighter escort.
Have you done a break down of the AT AT??
The not sure a crew interview is worth paying for
You'd think the Empire would get suspicious of all the Incom tech being found in Rebel hands
Can we get a video on the "Event Horizon" from the movie by the same name? A lot of its design was meant to fulfill a horror-inspiring aesthetic and I'm curious how much of it (Or little) you would actually consider practical, or lawsuits waiting to happen.
Can you do one of your video on the CIS Providence class
Cargo? for that size flyer? That's like taking a three wheeler to the grocery store! LOL, yep, you'll haul a lot of cargo with that thing for sure!
@@chaotik7853 Haha, yes they make trailors for three wheelers.
Do the MC80 Liberty Star Cruiser!
Do you think the ones on Hoth were all left there after the battle? Also I would like to see one of the original cargo variant appearing in a TV show or movie
In the novelization, the T-47s are blown up along with other heavy equipment, to prevent capture by the Empire.
I don't know why they would bother. The Empire would probably view it all as worthless garbage and use it for target practice.
@@KEVMAN7987 There might have been data on the computers the rebels wouldn't want the Empire to have.
Plus why make anything convient for your enemy.
The whole AT-AT design would have been vastly improved by adding a couple of double or quad laser cannon turrets to the sides.
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do one on gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Glorious Heritage Class heavy cruiser
You should do the ships from enders game
I could never understand repulsorlift technology. Even when a vehicle or other object is not in use and presumably, shut down to conserve fuel or shut down the object for maintenance, it still floats in the air. The only time you see anything with a repulsor is when it is destroyed. How can anything with repulsors possibly stay in the air 24/7 (or whatever the local timeframe is) without ever shutting down and resting on the ground?
Why Imperials didn't provide any kind of air support for their assault walkers? Its because of "character shields" for Luke I suppose?
So what you are saying is the imperials could have prevent of many walkers on hoth simply by sending a tie squadron or to.
Ya gotta get behind the mule.
Do you think you would ever do one on Andromeda spaceships? I have looked through youtube and haven't found one. I find the ships interesting with there AI control.
They were buckets of shite but its still my favourite ship in the star wars universe. I was only a wee kid when i fell in love with it seeing it for the first time watching E.S.B. at our local Drive inn
So you are saying they are essentially less agile / maneuverable than a Y wing which itself is less agile / maneuverable than an X-wing? And they have no shield generators correct?
"Long enough for the majority of the Alliance garrison to be evacuated"
riiiiiight...
Could you do the CCS class battlecruiser from Halo?
Can you do the adamant frigate or arachne cruiser from battlestar galactica deadlock please?
it never made sense to me that they used T47s to fight at Hoth then the pilots evacuated in their T65s, if the X-Wings were there, had vastly superior firepower (laser canons are several times as powerful as blaster canons) and simular manouverability and speed in atmosphere why not use the X-Wings, they were designed to operate in space so would be designed to handle cold, would nto require refitting for cold weather, they could have killed AT-ATs without needing such dangerous tactics and would have lost fewer pilots because the X-Wing is both better sheilded and harder to hit.
I suppose this was a case where looks cool is more important than makes sense.
Is it possible to get a T-47 into space? I know Kenobi featured them but I can't remember if they had a mothership and exited in atmosphere or they went into space and then docked with the mothership.
I was always curious as to why the rebel Alliance didn't deploy at least a few X-Wings into the Battle of Hoth to support the airspeeders? The lasers on their s-foils were more than enough to penetrate the Imperial Walker's armor.
Proton torpedoes anyone?
But the real reason is to sell more toys.
Why not cover real life military vehicles in this same format, it would make for concise and interesting videos.
Did any survive the Battle of Hoth?
I should check Wookieepedia. 😁
175 m service celling? That's odd
Other sources, like West End Games RPG, publish a 300m AGL (above ground level) ceiling, typical of most airspeeders.
I gathered from this that the T-47 isn't a fighter but more like an attack aircraft, comparable to the A-10 Thunderbolt.
Technically the closest comparison is a Jeep/Humvee.