Via Starwars.com:
MEET THE BRAVE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED STARKILLER BASE.
The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, is a fairly small militia brave enough to take up arms against the mysterious First Order. While the New Republic continued to neglect the rise of the First Order’s power and influence, General Organa didn’t and formed her own organization, consisting of loyal allies from her past and of new recruits who believed in the values that the Resistance represented.
When the Resistance set up their base on D’Qar, its starfighter fleet consisted of Incom-FreiTek T-70 X-wing starfighters, divided into two main units: Blue and Red Squadron. Blue Squadron was supposed to defend D’Qar and Red Squadron supported them. When the time had come to attack Starkiller Base, the gigantic super weapon of the First Order, the brave pilots of the Resistance knew their assault would be crucial. While a strike team led by Han Solo — who had once called such an attack “more like suicide” — would try to knock out the shields of Starkiller Base, 12 X-wings were waiting to attack the thermal oscillator of the base that would give them an opportunity to blow up the weapon.
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