Commando pistol The commando pistol was class of powerful blaster pistols utilized by elite or specialized units in various militaries , particularly by the belligerent factions of the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War . Description . Commando pistol was a moniker used to describe blaster pistols that were of superior firepower and capabilities than their baser counterparts . Capable of great rates of sustained fire and low recoil , they were in general pistols designed for greater efficiency than average blaster pistols . This was in part due to the fact that many commando pistols were merely heavily modified or upgraded versions of the standard issue pistols in various militaries , a notable exception being the DC - 17 hand blaster . In this capacity , they were commonly issued to pilots or other specialized units during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War and associated with elite soldiers . History . During the Clone Wars , commando pistols were first issued as the standard side - arm of clone jet trooper s , a specialized unit that saw deployment on battles such as the First Battle of Geonosis , First Battle of Kamino , Second Battle of Rhen Var , Battle of Mygeeto , Battle of Felucia , and Battle of Kashyyyk . The model utilized by the jet troopers was the DC - 17 blaster pistol , and it became an iconic weapon of some Advanced Recon Commandos as well . Throughout the war , Alpha - 77 " Fordo " and CT - 7567 " Rex " employed twin DC - 17 blasters to great effect . After the transition from Phase I clone trooper armor to Phase II , clone trooper pilots , formerly issued the standard DC - 15S blaster carbine , began to equip themselves with commando pistols . This practice was emulated by the Confederacy of Independent Systems , as commando pistols — in the form of customized SE - 14 blaster pistol s — saw service with OOM pilot battle droids aboard warships . In the time of the Galactic Civil War , this practice continued , with rebel pilots and TIE fighter pilot s wielding modified versions of DL - 44 heavy blaster pistols and SE - 14r light repeating blasters respectively . Behind the scenes . The commando pistol is the class of blaster that the DC - 17 hand blaster employed by Fordo and Rex in the animated miniseries " " and " " belong to . The DC - 17 is not identified as such in the shows , and the classification is only given in the " " and " " video game s . In those games , the clone jet trooper is equipped with a side - arm called the " commando pistol " , a blaster with a higher rate - of - fire and firepower and lower recoil than that of the DC - 15S carried by the other clone units . While the commando pistol is given the same skin model as the DC - 15S — " Battlefront " being notorious for using incorrect models for weapons such as the WESTAR - 34 and EE - 3 carbine rifle — the video games ' strategy guides confirms that the commando pistol is intended to be a " DC - 17 blaster pistol " . With the addition of space combat in " Star Wars : Battlefront II " , pilots of every faction are also equipped with side - arms called " commando pistols " , albeit all of different models , each identical in appearance to the standard blaster pistol of their respective factions . Unlike the commando pistol of the jet trooper , the model names of the commando pistols of the pilots are not given in the strategy guide , owing to the fact that the guide decides to only present the generic pilot class without delving into the profiles of the four different pilots . Because the " Battlefront " series generally reduces the skins of all side - arms to that of the standard blaster of each faction — often incorrectly and non - canonically — its depictions of the appearances of weapons is unreliable . Nevertheless in the absence of further sources , this article assumes that the commando pistols of the droid pilot , imperial pilot , and rebel pilot are modified SE - 14 , SE - 14r , and DL - 44 blasters respectively . An exception is made for the commando pistol of the clone pilot , as it is confirmed as a DC - 17 for the jet trooper , but it is unknown whether the clone pilot is also using a DC - 17 or whether he is using a modified DC - 15S .