Uploaded February 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
More information regarding the destructive firepower of blasters: blastech.info/blasterfirepower
This video shows an NN-14 blaster pistol used at high power to blast a half meter wide hole through a half meter thick stone wall, pulverising perhaps a quarter metric tonne in masonry.
More information regarding the destructive firepower of blasters: blastech.info/blasterfirepower
This video shows an NN-14 blaster pistol used at high power to blast a half meter wide hole through a half meter thick stone wall, pulverising perhaps a quarter metric tonne in masonry.
![[Image] Victory star destroyer | planetary bombardment
Planetary bombardment from Star Wars Armada (2015, official art) conducted by Victory class star destroyers.
This short video reveals the approximate scale of bombardment by superimposing the blasts onto the Earth (a few pixels out on the right, apologies). The superhot fireball at the epicentre of each blast was many miles wide with estimated radii of ~20km, which is broadly consistent with weapons discharges in the multi gigaton range. These fireballs apparently persist for some time after turbolaser impact, or detonation of ordnance.
Have a go at scaling these explosions yourself using NukeMap :)
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/classic/
The real life Tsar Bomba was the most powerful man made nuclear weapon of all time; it produced a fireball 8 km (5 mi) wide and a yield equivalent to ~57 megatons of TNT. [Image] Victory star destroyer | planetary bombardment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fAK5NofUnKA/mqdefault.jpg)






![Animation: How Fast is an Imperial AT-AT Walker | STAR WARS
The animation shows AT-AT walker locomotion at various speeds of travel from 5 km/h to 10 km/h, 20 km/h, 30 km/h, and 60 km/h. This graphic is presented to help viewers to visualize the AT-AT moving at various speeds.
Link for GIF:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gDrTRmVrbACVkmPe8
The recorded rates of AT-AT travel across the icy Hoth tundra (in TESB) while firing weapons continuously ranged from 5 km/h to 9.5 km/h. Based on the animation simulating various speeds of travel, I suppose the walkers potential top speed is n the range of 20 km/h to 30 km/h approx.
Speeds approaching 60 km/h begin to look aesthetically displeasing. However;
In the video game Star Wars: Empire At War [note game mechanics are non-canon] AT-AT walkers do appear to move at a considerably faster pace, making between 1 and 1.33 (~) strides forward each second. So assuming that each stride is up to 10 meters in length then this suggests a speed of travel in the range of 35 km/h to 48 km/h.
However, stride length in the game may be shorter than ten meters thus cutting the actual speed down by as much as half (scaling how long it takes an AT-AT to travel its own length should be fairly easy with access to the game). The previous estimates of 35 km/h to 48 km/h are therefore an upper limit.
Link for Empire at War AT-AT
https://youtu.be/m8b9gkwjzhU?t=935
(15:35)
Link for GIF:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gDrTRmVrbACVkmPe8
Animation source: sketchfab.com/dark0verseer
(I did not create it, just sped it up to various speeds)
Inspired by EC Henrys video AT-AT speed analyzed Animation: How Fast is an Imperial AT-AT Walker | STAR WARS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hKhJ5sc2a_U/mqdefault.jpg)


