The HUGE PROBLEM with Ground-to-Space Weapons in Star Wars

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Although the Ion cannon in the Battle of Hoth looks great, and is effective at taking down a Star Destroyer, ground to space weapons in Star Wars are certainly not without issue. That and more in today's video!
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@michaelcalabretta8158 Жыл бұрын

Ground to orbit weapons are another odd part of Star Wars. Ships are small. Planets are big. It takes time for fire to reach orbit. If the ships could detect a large weapon firing they could in theory move out of the way. That and the defending planet needs a quite large array across the planet to be effective.

@oggetheking7245 Жыл бұрын

I get the feeling you underestimate the importance of area of denial weapons. Cutting off access to or forcing the enemy through areas of your choosing is a massive advantage. AOD weapons are the staple of 20th and 21st century warfare for a reason.

@TheWhiteDragon3 Жыл бұрын

Every tool, no matter how good it is, has its limitations and needs to be used properly. Otherwise it's nearly useless. The closest approximation we have in the real world are shore batteries, artillery or rocket batteries built in coastal positions. They'll never be able to handle an enemy fleet by themselves, but they will be able to divide their attention. It's one thing to defeat a coastal defence fleet, it's another to try to sink a lot of maneuverable ships while ultra heavy guns are firing at you.

@jackwagon1770 Жыл бұрын

Funny enough the latest Obi-Wan comic was all about the Republic stealing plans for a Mega Ion canon the CIS were developing

@windowlickersllc252 Жыл бұрын

The power requirements for a planetary turbo laser don't make sense to me. If it really draws as much power as an entire city does in one day it is a little hard to believe that ISDs can carry dozens if not hundreds of them. Yes ones on a planet are larger than one on an ISD but they are not that much larger. To be clear this is a criticism of the lore writers at Disney and not of your coverage of it.

@twistedyogert Жыл бұрын

Why use a gun as opposed using a missile? They don't require gobs of power and can sit fueled and ready to launch. You could theoretically have hundreds ready to go.

@sumukhvmrsat6347 Жыл бұрын

Golans are way better for defense i think

@mikedoge5559 Жыл бұрын

So basically...these ground-to-space weapons are worth on very very important planets (like Coruscant, Kuat, Fondor etc) where you can set up many of them, it wont win a battle but it will sure give enemy fleet more targets to focus on and threat coming from the planet

@davidcox12317 Жыл бұрын

The thing I don't get about blockaids is the fact that you never here about them launching from the other side of the planet away from the ships preventing them from leaving it seems really stupid to me.

@MightyGalvatron Жыл бұрын

You may have missed the Battle of Scrim Island as depicted in the first of the new Thrawn novels. An island protected by a planetary shield, a single turbolaser and four ion cannons made mincemeat out of the Star Destroyer Judicator. It even opened and closed the shield before the Imperials could effectively counterattack. And the planet, Batonn, wasn't some ultra-wealthy core world.

@AdmiralBlackstar Жыл бұрын

Your description of the ground to space weapons reminds me of the criticism the Maginot Line gets for not stopping the germans from invading. However it did exactly what it was supposed to do, slowed the enemy

@TheYargonaut Жыл бұрын

Why does the ground-based weaponry have to be so much larger than ship-based weaponry?

@instinctisfiercenotcruel.958 Жыл бұрын

Pov: you are the empire in the death star and you lightspeed travel to the rebels base and it has thousands Ion Cannons of it

@eds1942 Жыл бұрын

As someone who worked in air defense, surface to air missiles and surface to air artillery, I take issue with this. Except when it comes to planetary shields.

@kabob0077 Жыл бұрын

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@jacobhuff3748 Жыл бұрын

Realized something, you don’t need a shield to cover a whole planet just over the key areas. Set up mobile defense systems to target landing craft and support, use the shields to funnel the invaders into an area of your choice. Basically use the shields and the ground to orbits as a bait to force the invaders into a disadvantaged area.

@BoisegangGaming Жыл бұрын

Honestly, i would think that planetary Weapons would actually be cheaper to build. Going back to to WW2 inspirations of star wars, they could be "shore batteries".

@willlasdf123 Жыл бұрын

"A ships a fool to fight a fort". Shore batteries have always been though nuts to crack in real life.

@prophetisaiah08 Жыл бұрын

It seems like the Rebellion learned a lot from the disasterous retreat from the Siege of Atollon. The scenario there was very similar, but with a few key differences. The Imperial force at Atollon was smaller than at Hoth, but so was the Rebel base. Also, while Vader is quite a competent battlefield commander, most of the actual decision making was done by incompetent subordinates. At Atollon, you had Thrawn in command, who was a much more hands-on commander, and who had a superior tactical and strategic intellect. It seems that the Rebels learned the right lessons from that failure, and the planetary ion cannon was pretty key to their evacuation strategy. It was probably there to deal with Imperial Interdictor cruisers, but Vader didn't bring any, preferring to brute-force the attack with speed and firepower. But the ion cannon could work in both scenarios, either removing Interdictors blocking access to hyperspace or disabling Star Destroyers in blocade positions.