Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Imperial stormtroopers breach a metal bulkhead. A metal door of this size and thickness could easily weigh more than half a metric ton. BlasTech.info
Star Wars A New Hope
Imperial stormtroopers breach a metal bulkhead. A metal door of this size and thickness could easily weigh more than half a metric ton. BlasTech.info
Star Wars A New Hope
![STAR WARS | Explosive power of the E-11 blaster: Sentry Droid blasts apart [~60 mm] metal bulkhead](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_zjZKwBE57w/mqdefault.jpg "STAR WARS | Explosive power of the E-11 blaster: Sentry Droid blasts apart [~60 mm] metal bulkhead
Imperial battle droids demolish a ~60mm (2.5 in) thick metal door using E-11 blaster gauntlets.
The door was blasted apart in a quartet of explosions that had enough force to scatter its mass. This demolition was performed so that the sentry droids could quickly pursue fleeing rebels past the closed door.
The blasters were clearly used on a higher power setting to achieve this level of destruction. At all other times, the battledroids continued to discharge standard power shots with blasters set to kill. Note the difference in magnitude between regular powered shots which merely scorch thick metal surfaces and maximum power shots that can actually blast through through the bulkhead.
Considering what a maximum powered shot can evidently do to an unarmoured metal surface, vehicular armour that can shrug off blaster fire with minimal or non-existent visible damage must be orders of magnitude more resistant compared to structural metals like titanium & steel (in terms of intercepting directed energy weapons).
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Rebels Recon on this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqxnQZDRF4g&feature=youtu.be&t=141
{Behind the scenes] the droids originally would have blasted the door away without the oval hole already cut into it by Ezra.
From Star Wars Rebels The Wynkahthu Job (season 3 episode 9).")
