Unfortunately for the individual Vulture droid, its designers did not see fit to equip it with a droid brain sufficiently sophisticated to react quickly to the rapidly changing situations prevalent in space combat, resulting in a fighter not much more maneuverable than many contemporary attack craft. One of the chief advantages of unmanned fighters is the ability to execute maneuvers that would severely injure a pilot. The droid's head, with its gleaming red visual receptors, can extend from the fuselage on a short segmented neck to facilitate vision in walker mode.ĭroid starfighters typically have a number of advantages and weaknesses compared to manned fighter craft. This is connected by a single airfoil to a pair of split pylon sections that serve as the droid's main armoured protection, weapon mounts and, in walker mode, as its legs.
Individual Vulture droids are sleek, with a streamlined, elongated egg-shaped fuselage that contains the droid brain, head-mounted sensor package, power systems, and fuel supply.
It is a mass-produced, maneuverable, and expendable weapon of war designed to be unleashed in huge numbers to saturate and overcome defending fighter forces, opening the way for heavier attack craft. The Variable Geometry, Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I is commonly known as the Vulture-class Droid Starfighter or simply the Vulture droid.
