The TIE/D could also be equpped with a tracyor beam. The inclusion of warhead launchers in the design was considered audacious by some members of the design team.
Examples are proton rockets, proton bombs and magnetic pulse warheads. Therefore different warheads could be mounted on the bottom of the cockpit module. Varying missions required a varity of warheads. The ship was also capable of being equipped with a standard load of three proton torpedoes or four concussion missiles. The maun goal of the Empire was to prevent the spread of the advanced technology, as this powerful starfighter attracted the attention of several other factions.Īfter the Emperor's death during the Battle of Endor, the TIE Defender had limited use by the Imperial Remnant up to 44 ABY and was even used during the Yuuzhan Vong War.
The TIE/D Defender played a major role in the Empire's campaign against Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin. So it came that units were only assigned to the most elite pilots in the imperial Navy. It was equipped with a series of innovations over previous models, including an innovative new design and featuring a length of 9.2 meters.ĭue to its high costs in production and maintenance, it couldn't achieve widespread use in the Galactic Empire. The TIE Defender, a starfighter that was fast, well armed and capable of hyperspace travel, was claimed to be the next logical advance of the TIE Series. Its Speed and agility, combined with its firepower, made the TIE/D the most advanced starfighter available at this time.īecause of the high success rate of more advanced Rebel starfighters against regular Imperial TIE Fighters and increasing costs of replacing damaged and destroyed TIE fighters, the Empire began to rethink their doctrine of using swarms of cheap craft instead of fewer high-quality ones, leading to the introduction of several new TIE models e.g. Produced by Sienar Fleet Systems and used by the Imperial Navy, the ship featured a hyperdrive as well as deflector shields, which gave it the ability to operate comlpletely independ from Imperial capital ships. The TIE/D Defender, better known as the TIE Defender or simply T/D, was an high-performance TIE Series starfighter developed shortly before the Battle of Endor.
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