X-wing superheats 40 square meters of metal within three laser blasts | STAR WARS @blastech4095

Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Superheating several cubic meters of metal to yellow white-hot temperatures is indicative of the laser cannons ability to direct energy yields into the gigajoule range,

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X-wing superheats 40 square meters of metal within three laser blasts | STAR WARS

$Turbolasers the size of Iowa battleships! (canon) The heaviest turbolaser turrets on an Imperial star destroyer MKI (Imperator) are fifty meters in diameter and easily an order of magnitude larger than the [real world] turrets mounted on the US Iowa battleships, which carried 16 inch (cal) guns. Considering the Imperators turbolasers sheer size they must each weigh more than ten thousands metric tons. Because they are both an order of magnitude larger and several orders of magnitude more advanced than Iowas cannons, they must also be many* orders of magnitude more effective within their optimum range (i.e capable of megaton+ yields). Footage is from Rogue One: a Star Wars Story World of Warships Note the Iowas guns could blast an area of thousands of square meters with a single explosive shell. The guns could also fire special low yield nuclear devices known as Katie shells with a yield of ~20 kilotons (several orders of magnitude more energetic than the standard shells which had a sub kiloton yield). The high res image of the ISD I was made by FractalSponge, see more of his work at http://fractalsponge.net/ The ISD turret is similarly voluminous overall to the Iowa battleship. Fair Use How big are turbolasers? Turbolaser size$

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