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[[File:EsegeTuketu-SWZ.png|thumb|right|Esege Tuketu's K-wing, designated Red One]]
'''Red Flight''' was a unit of [[BTL-S8 K-wing assault starfighter|K-wings]], in the [[24th Bombardment Squadron]]. They served with the [[New Republic Fifth Fleet]] during the [[Black Fleet Crisis]], but took punishing casualties in that campaign.

As initially organized, Red Flight was one of three component units in the squadron, each consisting of six K-wings, with one pilot and one gunner per ship. The flight commander, designated [[Red Leader/Legends|Red Leader]] was the [[Narvath]] pilot [[Esege Tuketu]], flying aboard [[Red One/Legends|Red One]].

Red Flight participated successfully in the training mission at [[Bessimir]], but suffered heavy casualties in the [[Battle of Doornik-319]]. [[Red Four/Legends|Red Four]] was destroyed attempting an attack run, and at least two more K-wings, [[Red Three/Legends|Red Three]] and [[Red Five/Legends|Red Five]], broke off the attack and were shot down as they retreated.

The losses at Doornik-319 led to a reorganization of the squadron. At the subsequent [[Battle of ILC-905]] Red Flight was reduced to three K-wings, heavily supported by six [[E-wing escort starfighter]]s.

They were tasked to attack the [[Black Nine]] shipyard, but as they closed in, the attack formation was reduced to two K-wings, Red One and [[Red Two/Legends|Red Two]], plus a single E-wing, [[Cover Four]]. Red Leader decided to close to point-blank range, and ordered Red Two to get clear, rendezvous with another K-wing pilot named [[Flick]], and make another attack run if required.

==Members==
{|{{Prettytable}}
! Designation !! [[Pilot/Legends|Pilot]] !! [[Gunner/Legends|Gunner]]
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|[[Red One/Legends|Red 1]]||[[Esege Tuketu]] ([[Red Leader/Legends|Red Leader]])||[[Skids]]
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|[[Red Two/Legends|Red 2]]||||
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|[[Red Three/Legends|Red 3]]||||[[Condor (gunner)|Condor]]
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|[[Red Four/Legends|Red 4]]||[[Jojo]]||
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|[[Red Five/Legends|Red 5]]||||
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|Red 6||||
|}

==Behind the scenes==
*After describing the destruction of three of Red Flight's K-wings at the Battle of Doornik-319, the novel ''[[Shield of Lies]]'' adds the statement that "Blue Flight fared even worse&mdash;only one of the bombers made it back to the comparative safety of ''Indomitable''{{'s}} hangar bays." This novel had previously identified [[Blue Flight]] as the E-wing formation acting as Red Flight's own escort unit, and the other K-wing units aboard ''Indomitable'' as [[Black Flight]] and [[Green Flight]]. Unless this is an error, this would seem to imply that at least four of the escorting E-wings were destroyed, and as a result, two more of the K-wings were also claimed by the Yevethan fighters, with only Red One returning to the cruiser.
*In the novel ''[[Tyrant's Test]]'', Red One launches a [[T-33 plasma torpedo]] from a range of just ten meters to destroy the Black Nine shipyard and the nine [[Star Destroyer]]s under construction there. Although the pilot claimed that the spacedock's own shields would contain the blast for long enough to allow the plane to get clear, the K-wing's subsequent fate is not specified in the novel.
*Dialogue in ''Tyrant's Test'' would suggest that Flick was the third K-wing pilot of the reduced Red Flight, presumably using the callsign Red Three, but this is not made explicit.

==Appearances==
*''[[Before the Storm]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Shield of Lies]]''
*''[[Tyrant's Test]]''

==Notes and references==
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