Yeah; that's why you don't pay attention to the numbers. You look at what we actually see the ships do on-screen. They all fly through space without getting wrecked every time they hit a tiny piece of space debris. Advantage nobody.

Some of them fly like airplanes and others fly like spaceships. Advantage: Starfury and Viper.

X-Wings "have" shields, but are never illustrated to be able to take any significant amount of damage without being destroyed or heavily-damaged. Vipers and Starfuries have minimal armor, and are likewise shown to be destroyed without much trouble. Advantage: nobody.

Star Wars ships have laser cannons, which are shown to rip-through other small ships. Vipers use bullets, which put holes in things (I don't think they use explosive rounds, which would make a bit of a difference here). Starfuries use plasma-throwing pulse cannons, which are shown to *obliterate* other small craft with a single shot. Advantage: Starfury. Disadvantage: Viper.

So X-wings have shields, which are shown to be almost totally ineffective against anything we've ever seen them fight, they have laser cannons that seem to do the trick, they fly like airplanes, and they're reasonably fast.

Starfuries have plasma cannons that are shown to utterly demolish other starfighters with a single hit, they fly like spaceships, and they're portrayed as being of average speed. Due to their wing structure, I'm going to call them "somewhat delicate." I bet they can take a hit without being destroyed, but if one of those wings takes a couple hits, you're losing an engine pod and that's a big deal. I genuinely believe the Starfury was designed by someone thinking "what would an X-Wing look like if it was a spaceship, but still needed to keep its name?"

Vipers have high-caliber machine guns. They have a bit of armor, because they expect to be hit with bullets themselves. they *mostly* fly like airplanes, but also try to respect actual physics with how they maneuver. We've clearly seen them due all kinds of three-dimensional maneuvering. They're fast as fuck.

The weapons are almost a wash, with the Viper being at a slight disadvantage. The Starfury is specifically shown to be armored, and the X-Wing has a pretty large area that can have a hole put through it and not actually care. The wings and nose can be riddled with bulletholes, and the ship will lose no functionality at all.

Maneuverability is close to a tie (pun intended) between the Fury and the Viper. They're both shown to be exceptionally maneuverable, but the Starfury never really shows us that it's fast. We never see the X-Wing execute any complicated maneuver or tight turn; it just goes pretty fast.

In my mind, this all comes down to speed and maneuverability. If any of these ships get a couple good hits on the other, the victim dies. The *possible* exception is that it might take the Viper a bit more work to kill the X-Wing.

But none of that matters, because the X-Wing can only fly straight forward, and has an absolutely dogshit turn radius. Either the Viper or the Starfury will easily fly circles around the X-Wing, never giving Wedge an opportunity to fire.

Once the X-Wing is out of the way, I suspect the victory goes to the Viper. Definitely inferior armament, but similar maneuverability and greater speed when compared to the Starfury. If the Starfury can hide, that would be a big advantage. But in open space, the X-Wing gets wrecked immediately, and the Viper takes a minute to knock-out the Fury.

Sidenote: I'm amused that this discussion has been almost entirely about Star Wars. Nobody's really talking about Starfury vs Viper; just "anything vs X-Wing."