During the Battle of Hoth between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, several cannon sleds were present, with at least one on the front lines and another in Hangar 7 in Echo Base.
Some of the craft had laser-ice cutters mounted to them and were used by the Rebel Alliance Corps of Engineers, alongside excavator machinery, to carve out space inside the caves of Echo Base.
The vehicle appeared, unnamed, in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. The original blueprints for the prop show its production name was "cannon sled". The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations identified the laser-ice cutter on top of the vehicle, and the vehicle itself was officially named in a Star Wars By the Numbers video.
The Star Wars: The Blueprints book indicates the vehicle was mounted on a sled towed by an Aktiv Fischer Snow Trac vehicle. On set footage of the vehicle was included in the rare documentary by Michel Parbot, The Making of "The Empire Strikes Back". There were a number of publicity photos of Luke Skywalker manning the turret on the vehicle which, according to Lucasfilm Story Group executive Pablo Hidalgo, were not deleted scenes but rather on-set photos taken with the prop.
An ice-cutter (left) in the hangar of Echo Base.
During the Battle of Hoth between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, several cannon sleds were present, with at least one on the front lines and another in Hangar 7 in Echo Base.
Some of the craft had laser-ice cutters mounted to them and were used by the Rebel Alliance Corps of Engineers, alongside excavator machinery, to carve out space inside the caves of Echo Base.
Cannon sled prop on the set of The Empire Strikes Back
The vehicle appeared, unnamed, in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. The original blueprints for the prop show its production name was "cannon sled". The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations identified the laser-ice cutter on top of the vehicle, and the vehicle itself was officially named in a Star Wars By the Numbers video.
The Star Wars: The Blueprints book indicates the vehicle was mounted on a sled towed by an Aktiv Fischer Snow Trac vehicle. On set footage of the vehicle was included in the rare documentary by Michel Parbot, The Making of "The Empire Strikes Back". There were a number of publicity photos of Luke Skywalker manning the turret on the vehicle which, according to Lucasfilm Story Group executive Pablo Hidalgo, were not deleted scenes but rather on-set photos taken with the prop.
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files