The empire when the emperor was alive was an army boasting the largest quantity in the galaxy anyway.
Every soldier was educated thoroughly to attack enemies rather than their own lives.
If it is for the Emperor 's Majesty, it means to carry out the mission with the preparedness to throw out his life.
This representative example is Thai fighter. While unprotected without a shield, it is a light fighter that is preeminent mobility.
If you want to help, if you want to survive, it is a doctrine that attacks enemies before enemies attack.
On the contrary, the rebel armion had a powerful shield on the X wing to increase the survival rate of few pilots. The aircraft becomes large size, equipment such as astrome droid, proton torpedo, hyperdrive etc will be substantial. This makes it possible for X wing not only to participate in battle but also for multipurpose use such as reconnaissance mission, escort mission, information gathering etc.
The former is low cost, mass production. The latter is expensive and small production.
Both have merit demerits, but history demonstrates that the latter is correct.
In the past Pacific War fighting fiercely with the US military Grumman and the Japanese army zero fight, he was betting on the Pacific military. By eliminating the pilot bulletproof plate, the zero fight makes the aircraft considerably lighter, realizes amazing mobility, and repels Grumman one after another. Grumman, on the other hand, gives priority to the
survival rate of the pilot and makes the engine powerful to realize it.
What we can imagine from this is that it takes a long time to train the pilot and it costs. Without a pilot, any high-performance aircraft has no meaning. As a result of comprehensive consideration of them, the cavalry came up to Grumman who made the engine powerful.
Incidentally, if the battle is prolonged, the cost of the engine will be lower due to mass production, and the mobility of the aircraft will also be improved.
In fact the victory recipe is guided by the balance of time and cost.
Well, with the development of technology with the first order rise, the hardware of the same size and performance as the old days is now considerably cheaper. Hyperdrive, shield, proton torpedo and so on.
In other words, if you make the same budget as the old one, you can achieve considerable performance improvement. Thus the shield and HyperDrive were finally loaded in the Thai fighter!
Of course, the escape unit is also standardized.
From the time of the Imperial Army, new tactics that prioritize pilot survival will be devised.
It became possible to fight resistance with each other equally.
