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Just how much gear can an X-wing carry? I'm watching SW:TESB right now, and I just realized that Luke managed to fit a crapload or supplies into his X-wing.

IG-88E wrote:Just how much gear can an X-wing carry? I'm watching SW:TESB right now, and I just realized that Luke managed to fit a crapload or supplies into his X-wing.

Well, according to SW RPG game X-wing cargo capacity is 110 kg.

And it's not like Luke had so much supplies with him - some crates, recharger... and a ladder

Kazeite wrote:

IG-88E wrote:Just how much gear can an X-wing carry? I'm watching SW:TESB right now, and I just realized that Luke managed to fit a crapload or supplies into his X-wing.

Well, according to SW RPG game X-wing cargo capacity is 110 kg.

And it's not like Luke had so much supplies with him - some crates, recharger... and a ladder

You know, the ladder could have simply folded up into it's own little compartment.

it's mentioned in the Hand of Thrawn Duology. I can't remember the exact page but when Luke packs up to go after Mara. Karrde mentions the exact dimentions and weight requirement.

This whole idea of the pilot carring a ladder with them, in the underside cargo compartment, is extremely ill thought out. How would you retreive it to climb out? How would you stow it after strapping in? Modern day fighter planes like the F-15 and F/A-18 have ladders build into the fuselage, why not the X-Wing?

Wicked Pilot wrote:This whole idea of the pilot carring a ladder with them, in the underside cargo compartment, is extremely ill thought out. How would you retreive it to climb out? How would you stow it after strapping in? Modern day fighter planes like the F-15 and F/A-18 have ladders build into the fuselage, why not the X-Wing?

You just jump off the fighter when you've landed, its hardly a long drop from the cockpit to the ground.

And you can't stow it in apparently. Luke left his right on the side of his X-Wing in TESB. I'd suppose it just falls off. It would be a hassle to get in and out after that.

They might have deleted some of the cargo capacity in the XJ-block X-Wings, since they've added another triple-shot proton torpedo tube. That does take up a nontrivial amount of space.

According to the Lego version, an X-wing has a cargo compartment about 3x3x6

phongn wrote:They might have deleted some of the cargo capacity in the XJ-block X-Wings, since they've added another triple-shot proton torpedo tube. That does take up a nontrivial amount of space.

It believe that they lengthened and broadened the forward fuselage to add the additional prototorps.

And they definitely did lengthen the ship itself, as the stats are different for length.

Personally, I think that the torpedo launcher areas are modular anyway, because heavier grade torpedoes (ie. ones larger than a grapefruit like those from TPM or ANH) wouldn't fit in the normal slots. So I think they're probably fittable with a portruding torpedo rack. An example of wider fuselage X-Wings was from some of Stackpole's X-Wing comics, and is probably on Saxton's site.

Saxton's site doesn't have that much on X-Wings, IIRC. But yes, the expendable weapons bay probably is modular.

2 m^3 and 110 kg, according to Specter of the Past.