V-19 test squadron

In 22 BBY, a test squadron of prototype V-19 Torrent starfighters was active within the Galactic Republic naval forces. Before the Clone Wars began against the Separatist Alliance, the Republic commissioned the Slayn & Korpil manufacturing company to produce a new model of starfighter, designed to supplement the navy's small arsenal of BTL-B Y-wing starfighter/bombers. After prolonged design processes, the time in which the Republic was still deploying Y-wings and aging starfighter models, the company produced and delivered a squadron of experimental V-19s for their contractors to flight test. As the war began on the planet Geonosis, the squadron saw field-testing in the engagement, deployed to great effect by its pilots. When the battle ended, the Republic ordered the fighters' immediate mass-production and utilized them extensively throughout the conflict.
==Behind the scenes==
The V-19 test squadron was mentioned in Collapse of the Republic, a 2019 supplement to Fantasy Flight Games' series of Star Wars Roleplaying products. Collapse of the Republic establishes that the BTL-B Y-wing starfighter/bombers were already constructed and being used before the Clone Wars. Meanwhile, issue nineteen of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, released around May 13, 2015, states that the starfighters were still undergoing testing at the planet Bormus by the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula, after the Clone Wars began. The article assumes that Collapse of the Republic is more accurate, due to being the more recent source.
==Sources==
*Collapse of the Republic 
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Republic starfighter squadrons