‘Rogue One’ First Look: Check out the Rebel Alliance’s “U-Wing”
Rebel Alliance got themselves a U-Wing, apparently. Must be obliterated in the movie because they’ve all disappeared by the start of the Original Trilogy, apparently.
The Rebels sure do love their alphabet ships, don’t they?
Although we got to see a few Imperial ships in person at Star Wars Celebration a few weeks ago, the weekly YouTube series The Star Wars Show’s latest episode has just dropped a new still from Rogue One of the Rebel’s base on Yavin IV, featuring our first good look at the newest Alliance ship in the film: the U-Wing.
According to Lucasfilm story group creative executive Matt Martin, the U-Wing—or as it is known in-universe, the Incom UT-60D—isn’t really a typical fighter like its A-, X-, and Y-Wing counterparts: it’s a troop transport and gunship (and we know that loveable lil’ space monkey Bistan is a gunner on one of the U-Wings in the film). However, like the X-Wing, its s-foils can be locked into an alternative position for aerial support scenarios.
