U-Wing UT-60D Combat Transport

The Incom UT-60D U-wing is the Rebel Alliance's frontline combat transport — the ship that drops a Pathfinder team into a hot LZ and stays in atmosphere long enough to extract them. Designed and produced before the Empire's nationalization of Incom Corporation, the U-wing carries forward Incom's design philosophy from the T-65 X-Wing fighter line: rugged, modular, easy to maintain in field conditions with mismatched parts. The 24.34-meter hull mounts two retractable wings that fold forward for hyperspace travel and lock back for atmospheric operations.

The ship's defining feature is its side-mounted troop bay. A U-wing can hold eight troopers in full kit with the sliding doors open to allow door-gunner suppression fire on the way in — a feature that turned the U-wing into the workhorse of Rebel Pathfinder operations on Scarif, Eadu, and dozens of unnamed Outer Rim worlds. Twin forward laser cannons handle dogfights against TIE pursuit; the troop bay handles everything that lands.

U-wings became scarce after Scarif (the Battle of Scarif consumed most of the operational fleet) but the chassis remained in service through the post-Endor New Republic transition. Player crews that lean rebel ops, frontier insurgency, or special-forces flavor gravitate to the U-wing: it's the chassis that says "we go in as a team, and we come out as a team."