This article is about the class of fictional vehicles. For other uses see Starfighter "Starfighter" is a science fiction term used to describe small, fast, usually one-manned craft designed for armed combat (cf starship). The appearance and use of fictional starfighters is often modeled on fighter aircraft, with little regard for the actual physics of space travel. Exceptions include the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter, the Viper from the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica, and the Starfury from Babylon 5, which are capable of multidirectional orientation. Starfighters are popular as the subjects of flight simulator-like space combat video games, such as the "Wing Commander" and "X-Wing" series. This connection was made explicitly as early as the 1984 film The Last Starfighter in which a video game on Earth is used as a recruiting device for an alien civiliz

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