Talk:AT-AT

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Contents 1 Length of AT-AT 2 Light or medium blasters? 3 Speeder crash 4 the pilots wear white 5 Why not tanks? 6 How do they...?

[edit] Length of AT-AT

Im curious where this 15.5 meters comes from? In the attack on Hoth, I clearly see a much much larger AT-AT walking around. 15.5 meters means that we could have three of these beasts end to end in an olympic sized, pool... I would more closely estimate the length at one olympic sized pool (50m). I mean Luke flew circles around the legs of this thing! Anyone else have any thoughts here?

I personnally think that the height is more important. There's a shot in Empire when Luke uses the grappling hook on the underside of one AT-AT. Saying that Luke is around 6ft tall, I made a rough calculation. When I did this I came up with 86.25ft as the height of that AT-AT. Imperial spy

[edit] Light or medium blasters?

In the SW Craft template : "2 cheek-mounted light blasters"

In the article : "two temple-mounted medium blaster cannons"

Are they light or medium, and are they cheek- or temple-mounted? The Star Wars Databank says "a pair of light blasters located on the walker's "temples,"". kallemax 15:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speeder crash

"a third blew up when a speeder crashed into it."-Is this true? I don't remember it? Maybe it was in the novel? Or was I just not paying attention?-LtNOWIS 04:51, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Snowspeeder crashed into it. It was in the backstory of the Battle of Hoth. Apparently one crashes into General Veers's AT-AT, killing the pilot, destroying the walker, and crushing Veers's legs. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:27, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] the pilots wear white

[edit] Why not tanks?

Why the Empire chose such vulnerable platform (the legs are its Achiles' heel) instead of very large tank or hovercraft? MathKnight 15:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Because legs probably provide the support needed for the thick armour and heavy weapons, whereas the hover propulsion would probably end up being so great it would be more effective as a starship.

its just a movie...Lord revan 15:45, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

...it's also a stupid design. Lucas the liberal has no military sense whatsoever. Haizum 06:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

If they had tank treads it would be too easy to stop. Treads would come off too easily. Darth Bane

Insert non-formatted text here== Pronounciation of AT-AT? ==

For years I've said "ay-tee-ay-tee" as many others I've heard say. Lately though, I've heard it pronounced "aat aat" (similar sound to att-ack) How is it pronounced?

For what it is worth, me and my family pronounce it the same way. --Maru (talk) Contribs 01:23, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

"Att-att" here, but I'm Norwegian, so that might have something to do with the way I pronounce it. kallemax 15:04, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

That's intresting actually. How would you pronounce AT-ST? (I say "aay-tee, ess-tee", and that's the only way I've ever heard it said)

Ditto. --Maru (talk) Contribs 17:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

In Star wars Battlefront 2 in "Rise of the Empire", on the last level they say,"Defend the att-atts!". Darth Bane -17 November 2006

[edit] How do they...?

How the hell do they get these things down to the planet surface? Do they use some kind of dropship? -albrozdude 05:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)