Wikia

Wookieepedia

A280 blaster rifle

Talk19
103,536pages on
this wiki

Redirected from A280-K blaster rifle

A280 blaster rifle
A280 blaster rifle
Production information
Manufacturer

BlasTech Industries

Model

A280

Type

Blaster rifle

Cost

AurebeshSans-Serif credit1,300

Physical and technical specifications
Size

Large

Weight

6.7 kg

Range

300 meters

Usage and history
Era(s)
Affiliation

The A280 was a blaster rifle produced by BlasTech Industries, and was considered to be one of the best armor-piercing blasters produced during the Galactic Civil War.

Contents

CharacteristicsEdit

A280 blaster rifle - SWGTCG
An Alliance soldier with an A280

Though much heavier than Imperial-issue rifles such as the E-11, the A280 was a sturdy weapon and was reputed to be able to cut a fully-armored stormtrooper in half at medium range. This weapon, along with its predecessor, the DLT-20A, were marketed as Longblasters. The A280 was different from the DLT-20A in that its galven circuits were clustered near the focusing crystal, giving the weapon a slight bulge at the midsection. This also provided the A280 with more power over a longer range.

HistoryEdit

During the final years of the Republic the A280 was standard issue rifle for the Planetary Security Forces.The A280 was the standard blaster rifle for Ranulph Tarkins Republic Outland Regions Security Force. After the Declaration of a New Order, the A280 became available for the Black market. Several of these rifles were stolen by Janse for the Alliance to Restore the Republic when he left BlasTech shortly before the Battle of Endor. The Alliance had already been using these weapons prior to this battle; Rebel soldiers wielded them during the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY.[source?]

ModelsEdit

By 8 ABY, a model of the weapon, known as the A280-K was used by Gottu, a member of the New Republic's Page's Commandos, during the Battle of Kal'Shebbol.[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

The BlasTech A280 blaster rifle prop was based on the M16/AR-15 series of rifles as an attempt to replicate the overall appearance of the A295 blaster rifle, which was built from the World War II-era German StG44 Sturmgewehr rifle. Many of the cosmetic features that assisted in this goal were made from stock parts of the Sussex Armoury "Jackal" air rifle.

A280 Endor
The A280 as depicted in Endor Limited.

The depiction of the A280 has varied over different sources. The image used in this article is that from Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary. Another version was depicted in the Endor Limited expansion of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, and yet another in its original appearance in the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook.

AppearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

Notes and referencesEdit

External linksEdit

Advertisement | Your ad here

Photos

Add an Image
54,603images on this wiki
See all photos >

Recent Wiki Activity

See more >

Around Wikia's network

Random Wiki
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A280-K_blaster_rifle
starwars.wikia.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2013-20
88637
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:AL3RM7X6PMC3TMVYS6NLDOFHK24OZB3K
<urn:uuid:dad268d2-77c8-405a-a711-babf246ff308>
2013-05-19T23:55:34Z
199.27.72.131
sha1:5NYNW2EWHYSWSIUOOSER4DVQWFE7XIO3
<urn:uuid:20000c11-7542-4ccf-ae78-618207c2f4d2>
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A280-K_blaster_rifle
response
<urn:uuid:09113f68-16ca-4316-8a87-2b62a769f9f1>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-20
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Spring 2013
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf