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|notable=[[Battle of Brentaal IV (Galactic Civil War)|Battle of Brentaal IV]]<ref name="XW24">[[X-Wing Rogue Squadron 24|''X-Wing Rogue Squadron'' 24]]</ref>
|purpose=[[Starfighter combat/Legends|Starfighter combat]]<ref name="RASB">''[[The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook]]''</ref>
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{{Quote|Colonel, I have engaged an X-wing.''"<br />"''Not your mission profile, Major.''"<br />"''He is one of their best. I will kill him.''"<br />"''One pass, then take the group to the ''Eviscerator''.''"<br />"''Where did he go?''"<br />"''Reverse-Throttle Hop. Break port now, or he'll vape your tail.|Major Turr Phennir and Colonel Soontir Fel|<ref name="XW24" />}}
The '''Reverse Throttle Hop''' was a tactic used in [[Starfighter combat/Legends|starfighter combat]]. It was used by attacking [[Starfighter/Legends|starfighters]] as a counter to a [[break]]ing maneuver, allowing them to retain the advantage in a turning engagement. As the defending [[Pilot/Legends|pilot]] went into his breaking turn, the attacker would pull up above his opponent and decelerate; as the defender finishes its turn, the attacker would drop back down on his aft, having performed an exaggerated hopping maneuver. The tactic was difficult to execute in that it required split-second timing and a degree of intuition in the attacking pilot; enter the maneuver too early and the defender would simply loop back around and gain the advantage, too late, and the attacker risked overshooting the target.<ref name="RASB" />

[[Baron/Legends|Baron]]-[[Colonel/Legends|Colonel]] [[Soontir Fel/Legends|Soontir Fel]] advised [[Major/Legends|Major]] [[Turr Phennir]] to perform a Reverse Throttle Hop in the closing stages of the [[Battle of Brentaal IV (Galactic Civil War)|Battle of Brentaal IV]] to avoid being destroyed by [[Rogue Squadron/Legends|Rogue Squadron]] [[Pilot/Legends|pilot]] [[Tycho Celchu]].<ref name="XW24" />

[[Corran Horn]], in his undercover role as a member of the [[Khuiumin Survivors]], grew fond of the maneuver, which the unorthodox throttle assembly on the [[Clutch (fighter)|Tri-fighters]] he flew as part of the [[Invids]] allowed him to perform very quickly and with better results than his [[X-wing starfighter/Legends|X-wing]] was able to produce.

==Appearances==
*[[X-Wing Rogue Squadron 24|''X-Wing Rogue Squadron'' 24]]
*''[[X-Wing: Rogue Squadron]]''
*[[X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (unabridged audiobook)|''X-Wing: Rogue Squadron'' unabridged audiobook]]
*''[[I, Jedi]]''

==Sources==
*''[[The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook]]''
*[[The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook (Second Edition)|''The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook'', Second Edition]]

==Notes and references==
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[[Category:Starfighter tactics]]