From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > I can't find it now, but someone recently complained about the new Star    
   > Wars movie using bombers in space where there is "no gravity" (despite    
   > bombers also being in 'The Empire Strikes back').   
   >    
   > According to 'The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary' book:   
   >    
   >     "Resistance Bombers   
   >      Bombs don't technically "drop" in microgravity,   
   >      but are impelled from their racks by sequenced   
   >      electromagnetic plates in the clip. The bombs   
   >      are then drawn magnetically to their unfortunate   
   >      targets."   
      
   Essentially a railgun with explosive bullets.  The Prequel Trilogy/Original   
   Trilogy "Complete Cross-Sections" book doesn't mention impellers on the TIE   
   Bomber, (but it's only a "legendary" book, now,) but the "drop chute" from the   
   pod to the launch point    
   suggests one could be there.  One could imagine them designed to impel them in   
   a direction forward of the bomber rather than at right angles to its travel.    
   That brings us a step towards the Rebel "bombers," the Y-Wing and B-Wing,   
   which launch proton    
   torpedoes.  (The X-Wing can also carry at least two proton torpedoes, but   
   apparently not enough to be considered useful for a bomber mission.)   
      
   It was done for the visuals.  They could have tried harder to justify it...   
   but close enough.   
      
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