In Return Of The Jedi, dozens of TIE Fighters swarm past the Falcon yet she and the severely outnumbered Rebel starfighters survive the battle.įor whatever reason, targeting computers in Star Wars are terrible.

In Empire Strikes Back, three Star Destroyers and four TIE fighters at point blank range only manage to knock out the Millennium Falcon's rear shields. Darth Vader gets a lock on Luke and begins firing yet still misses. We see anti-starfighter guns on the Death Star blazing away but rarely a hit. At the Battle of Yavin the computer can't hit a 2 meter exhaust port. The guns on the Falcon are computer augmented but still manually aimed and have a hard time hitting TIE fighters. In the opening of A New Hope we see an Imperial Star Destroyer having a hard time hitting the unmaneuvering Tantive IV.

Star Wars accuracy is closer to early WWII technology. The Star Wars universe, despite having mastered human level droid intelligence, consistently lacks reliable targeting computers. The Advanced Gun System can fire an unguided shell 100km with accuracy within 50 meters. A Tomahawk missile can hit a 1 meter target from 500 miles away. In reality we have astonishingly accurate smart weapons. it's hard enough to make sense of Star Wars without all that extra and often conflicting information. NOTE: For this answer I am only using on-screen canon. The reasons are: regenerative shielding, slow 'lasers', and awful targeting computers. Yes, Star Wars has more to do with 19th century naval combat than 21st century. In the 18th century, such range was necessary due to a lack of accuracy. Within the Star Wars universe, capital ships typically engage each other at what I consider to be unnecessarily close range reminiscent of the broadside battles of 18th century warships.

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