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Originally Posted by getbak
No, when they first spot the TIE fighter flying towards the Death Star, it's mentioned that a ship that small wouldn't have a hyperdrive and couldn't be that far into space alone.
I believe X-Wings had hyperdrives and possibly A-Wings too, but most small ships didn't. Also, I believe Vader's ship was specially equipped with one too, where most TIEs were not.
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Yup, all of the alliance fighters had hyperdrive engines. That way they could jump into a system, attack a target and escape and they didn't need to bring a capital ship with them.
With the exception of the Tie Advanced X1 (Vader's ship) And the Tie Defender, The Empire believed that there was no reason to put hyperdrives on carrier born space fighters.