The Rebel Alliance combat airspeeder has seen extensive use throughout the military forces of the Alliance - they were cheap to manufacture, reliable and sturdy, and produced excellent firepower. The Alliance often modified their speeders for specific terrian - speeders for cold environments were "snowspeeders," those for hot dry planets were "sandspeeders," and those for jungle and other moist worlds are called "swampspeeders."
The infamous Battle of Hoth pitted Alliance snowspeeders against Imperial AT-AT Walkers, and amazingly enough, a crafty tactic devised by Commander Luke Skywalker allowed the speeders to topple several of the fearsome Imperial battle vehicles, despite not having blasters powerful enough to penetrate the walker's armor.
The two man cockpit has the pilot facing forward, while the co-pilot faces backward and is responsible for the operation of the power harpoon, in addition to normal co-piloting responsibilities. |