Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Covering thousands of kilometres per second. Take note of how fast the star fighters fly past the planetary land-marks on the planets surface (or atmosphere...).
Covering thousands of kilometres per second. Take note of how fast the star fighters fly past the planetary land-marks on the planets surface (or atmosphere...).
![[Image] Victory star destroyer | planetary bombardment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fAK5NofUnKA/mqdefault.jpg "[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.")
