They showed a scrapped TIE Fighter in Mandalorian, where they had to spring that pirate guy from prison to raid that Imperial compound. It showed the cockpit's viewport with broken glass. The nerd inside me screamed, "TRANSPARISTEEL! It's called 'transparisteel' for a reason, you goofballs!" That had been accepted as Star Wars gospel ever since the Han Solo novels by Brian Daley in the '70s. The show depicted vibroblades, which also came from those same books, so they must have known about this.