Like all TIE Series craft, the Raptor had a spherical cockpit with an octagonal forward window, but rather than the usual large wings on either side, it had four short fins protruding directly from the cockpit assembly at right angles to one another. Although not as fast as a TIE Interceptor, it was as manoeuvrable as an A-wing, and heavily armed, with four laser cannons and two concussion missile tubes. A few prototypes were also equipped with shields.

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The third iteration of the production model of the TIE Raptor, the Laser cannons having been relocated to the redesigned wings to allow for a larger magazine of concussion missiles to enable Raptor's to stay on the fields for a longer period of time and now equipped with planetary repulsors for use in the gravity of a planet