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We saw in AOTC that two geonosian fighters fired on the LAAT from behind, and it's shields held.

Now the lasers on the Geonisian fighters are rated at 1e13 per shot, we saw two shots impact almost simoultaneously, so that puts the total shield strenght at somewhere around <2e13watts, likely the shields had to absorb less because the impacts where not exactly simoultaneous.

Now OTOH, earlier on we see a LAAT take a direct hit from an unknown weapon and disintegrate, this was when they approached the coreships taking off, I believe the shots we saw and the one that destroyed the LAAT where from the coreships, they are rated at 8KT.

So I think LAAT shields can be estimated at around 4KT> but less than 8KT.

That follows, assuming the fighters flak bursts were the result of shield impacts, in which case the gunship must have a shield some distance from the hull rather then the more usual tight hull conformal ones on star ships, and not time fused bursts.

I think that&#8217;s not unreasonable assumption. Star ships have conformal shields so the armor and shields take the blast at the same time, but even losing a little bit of armor could create from for a craft in the atmosphere, drag could start tearing it apart.

BTW, I think Star Hind fits the LAAT a lot better.

Sea Skimmer wrote:That follows, assuming the fighters flak bursts were the result of shield impacts, in which case the gunship must have a shield some distance from the hull rather then the more usual tight hull conformal ones on star ships, and not time fused bursts.

The flakburst where most likely the physical bolt being delfected instead of absorbed like the invisble energy beam, wich makes it look like a flakburst, and yes in TPM we can see on Anakins fighter that they do extend a bit away from the ship itself and being roughly conformal at the same time.
I think the case is the same here.

You know, I saw a new thing now, one of the LAAT's took a glancing hit from what I believe to be the 8Kt lasers of the coreships.

It might have been from a ground battery. I've heard that in addition to being in the script, they were actually filmed, but then cut for time.