Imperial Landing Craft armrament

[Surlethe]

Do you have the AOTC ICS? Could you check to see if it says anything about the atmospheric shielding? Just to make sure it's not something the wiki made up.

I don't see anything about atmospheric shielding. It does mention that there's an indicator for the atmospheric integrity of the forward compartments and cockpits, if that helps at all.

I suspect that atmospheric shielding is made up, myself, since "LAAT" stand for "Low Altitude Atmospheric Transport", and clonetrooper armor is very strongly insulated and has self-contained breathing anyway.

[Cykeisme]

Assuming it extends straight over the hatches, won't an LAAT/i's normal particle shielding trap the atmosphere within the passenger compartment when the doors are open? Assuming the skintight shielding just stretched over the doors openings, of course.

Regardless, even if it was a vacuum inside the crew compartment during orbital deployment (as in the CW series), clone trooper armor probably easily keeps its wearer comfortable during that time.


Also, another general question.. with repulsorlift technology, is re-entry heat still an unavoidable problem? A repulsorlift can essentially supply a force to negate and even overcome gravity (i.e. when leaving a planet), so can't a ship just fly down to the surface at a velocity of the pilot's choosing?

[Imperial Overlord]

Also, another general question.. with repulsorlift technology, is re-entry heat still an unavoidable problem? A repulsorlift can essentially supply a force to negate and even overcome gravity (i.e. when leaving a planet), so can't a ship just fly down to the surface at a velocity of the pilot's choosing?

Would you want to go slowly through the atmosphere when someone is firing on you with computer assisted quad laser batteries?

[(name here)]

If the shield can withstand wars starfighter weapons for an extended period of time, then it can probably withstand atmospheric reentry. I don't know how many joules reentry generates, but since IIRC blaster handguns can generate an estimated 280 MJ, starfighter weapons may be more dangerous. Further, the shield only has to keep the temperature low enough to allow the armor of the troops to deal with it, meaning the jobs is less strenuous than maintaining room temperature inside.

[Cykeisme]

Also, another general question.. with repulsorlift technology, is re-entry heat still an unavoidable problem? A repulsorlift can essentially supply a force to negate and even overcome gravity (i.e. when leaving a planet), so can't a ship just fly down to the surface at a velocity of the pilot's choosing?

Would you want to go slowly through the atmosphere when someone is firing on you with computer assisted quad laser batteries?

Absolutely, you wouldn't want to.. and re-entry heat wouldn't be a problem anyway even for ships with non-combat grade shielding. For SW interstellar craft, immunity to micrometeorite, background cosmic radiation and re-entry heat are probably requirements as basic as wheels on cars.

Still, I'm just saying that having a significant turning portion of your gravitational potential energy being converted into heat as a corridor of atmosphere is compressed as a craft re-enters is not a necessary problem like in real life, when we're talking about SW craft which have repulsors.

Further, the shield only has to keep the temperature low enough to allow the armor of the troops to deal with it, meaning the jobs is less strenuous than maintaining room temperature inside.

Indeed, it probably increases the parameters for "survivability" somewhat when the crew is individually wrapped in life support/armor.