The Droid Starfighter, also known as the "Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid", or the Vulture Droid, is a fictional starfighter used by the Trade Federation in the Star Wars universe. Like the rest of the Trade Federation's armed forces it carried no living pilot but rather a droid brain that was linked to the Trade Federation Droid Control Ship. Each Trade Federation battleship carried 1,500 of these droid starfighters. This article is about the class of fictional vehicles. ... The Trade Federation is a fictional organization that exists in the Star Wars universe at the time of the Galactic Republic. ... Star Wars is a series of science fantasy films created by writer/producer/director George Lucas. ... The word pilot has several meanings: In shipping, a pilot is someone who guides ships through the waters near a harbour, or especially narrow or otherwise dangerous coastal waters. ... Alternative meanings: Droids (cartoon) A droid is a robot, specifically the intelligent robots in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Droid Control Ship is fictional spacship in the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ...

The starfighter carried four blaster cannons and two proton torpedo launchers and could reach 1,200km/h in an planet atmosphere. When not in flight, the ship could transform into a walking weapons platform, used for ground patrol and troop support. The fictional Star Wars universe features an intricate array of different weapons, whose uses and powers range from interpersonal combat to destroying entire space stations or even planets and solar systems in single sweeps. ... Proton Torpedo formaly known as Triple D Industry is an Australian band formed 7 years ago by school students with some extra time on their hands. ...

A droid starfighter was capable of maneuvers that would kill an organic pilot, but they lacked the resourcefulness and cunning of living pilots. Additionally, they could only function for 35 minutes before having to be refuelled.

The vulture droid is a droid starfighter that relies on speed, manuverability, and numbers instead of strength, fire power, and endurance in the CIS army. It has four laser cannons and two proton torpedo launchers, In addition the vulture droid has a conceled buzz droid missile in each wing. It also has a walker mode that spilts the wings in two to walk on four limbs and uses a the missle launcher for defence. It lacks a hyperdrive and shields making it a short ranged fighter. It selfdestructs whenever the droid gets out of the range of the droid warships to prevent it falling into enemy hands. <--/end merge--> CIS is an abbreviation of: Commonwealth of Independent States Canadian Interuniversity Sport Contact Image Sensor CompuServe Information Service Chinese International School Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars) Continuous injection system Communication Information Services Card Information Structure Cisalpino See also uses of the word cis. ... The Hyperdrive is one of the three typical methods of travelling faster than light in science fiction; the other two being jump drive and warp drive. ... This article is about the handheld defensive device. ...

A LEGO "vulture droid" is available as set 7258 (2005). LEGO Group logo Lego sets feature a large variety of themed people (called “minifigures”), including the Space, Castle, and City figures above. ...

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