"No, the entire Imperial fleet couldn't have done this. It would take a thousand ships massing a lot more firepower than has ever existed."
That Solo's quote could imply that entire Imperial Starfleet is less than 1000 capital ships strong. Given that single fleet protecting Death Star had 1 Super Star Destroyer (SSD) and ~20 Star Destroyers, we can assume 47 Super Star Destroyers and 940 Star Destroyers.
Solo might not be military man, but he is resident of that place and time, and we should not assume he is wrong. I already know that Croatian fleet has only 5 missile boats, with 3 of these being home-produced, even without checking Wikipedia (written on 28. 11. 2010.).
There is also one quote from RotS novelization:
"With little else to lose, Ackbar decided to try Calrissian's strategy. In the next minutes, dozens of Rebel Cruisers moved in astronomically close to the Imperial Star Destroyers—and the colossal antagonists began blasting away at each other, like tanks at twenty paces, while hundreds of tiny fighters raced across their surfaces, zipping between laser bolts as they chased around the massive hulls."
"Dozen" means thirty. So we have several hundred Rebel cruiser and presumably similar number of ISD's. That gives Imperial fleet size of 5 SSD's and 1000 ISD's. However, movie is still higher canon.
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