Droid Tri-Fighter

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Production information
Manufacturer
Colla Designs
Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries

Model
Tri-fighter

Class
Droid starfighter

Cost
20,000

Technical specifications
Length
5.4 meters

Width
3.45 meters

Maximum acceleration
3,600 G

MGLT
125

Maximum speed (atmosphere)
1,180 km/h to 37,000 km/h

Hyperdrive system
None

Shielding
None

Armament
Medium laser cannon (1)
Light laser cannons (3)
Buzz droid discord missiles (2-6)

Crew
B1 battle droid pilot

Passengers
None

Cargo capacity
None

Consumables
None


The droid tri-fighter, also known as the tri-droid fighter or simply tri-fighter, was a deadly Confederacy droid starfighter designed as a fast, agile and powerful space-superiority starfighter, built to excel in dogfighting. It would be used in large numbers in the later parts of the Clone Wars.

The droid tri-fighter was designed by the Colicoid Creation Nest—makers of the deadly droideka—and manufactured by Colla Designs and Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries. The droid's ridged, three-armed design was based on the skull features of a fearsome predator native to the planet Colla IV.

The bracing arms surrounded the fighter's battle droid pilot housed in a rotating, gyroscopic core. The droid tri-fighter had three independent thrusters, providing it with great agility, and a powerful reactor and control/communications transceiver that gave the craft unusual range for a fighter drone.

It was armed with one heavy laser cannon protruding from the central ball, and a light laser cannon for each of the three arms. They could fire independently or together and could slightly tilt on rails to improve its deadly aim. Two to six missiles of variable payloads were housed within each arm. The nose-like cannon made the droid tri-fighter similar in appearance to the DSD1 dwarf spider droid also used by the Confederacy.

The droid tri-fighter was capable of deploying buzz droids via discord missiles fixed to the underside, and quickly became rival to the ARC-170 starfighter and the Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighter. Although it could not outrun the Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor favored by the Jedi, it was bulkier and more heavily armed, making it a challenge for even the best living starpilots to overcome.