List of Decepticon Ships (DOTM)



The Decepticon armada is a vast force, ranging from small, nimble fighter craft to large, powerful troop carrier ships.

"Ho ho, we gonna screw this ship up!"

- Brains about to sabotage one of the carriers.

Carrier ships


These big ships carry troops and fighter craft to the battle field. They are slow moving but there ominous presence in the sky can strike fear into the strongest of warriors. They are unarmed but very versatile, and they carry there own personal fighter escort.

The Fighter craft store in the sides of the these ships for re-fuelling and supplying. When they need to be deployed, the side panels open and the ships are carried out by Tractor beam. The pilots board by a gangway that stretches along the inside of the ship. There are ladders going to where the fighters dock.

Fighter craft
"I can't hold them! The ships have us pinned...!"

- Optimus trying to fight off the ships while fighting Sentinel.



These fast, nimble little fighters are deadly. They carry multiple weapons, Machine guns, (heavy and light) and missile launchers. The pilots are in-closed inside a solid metal cockpit for protection. When not being stored in the carrier ships, the fighters can latch onto the sides of buildings like bats, using claws built into the weapons appendages. These weapons appendages have different positions, when at full speed, the guns are locked in the forward position, when hovering, they're movable like turrets, and can rotate 180 Degrees.

There are different types of Fighters, some are bigger, with larger engine turbines, fixed weapons mounts, and open cockpits.

Dark of the Moon film
On Cybertron, when the Ark is trying to escape, five fighters attack, one launches a missile, the missile springs open and releases eight separate ones forming a spiral. They hit the Ark sending it tumbling through Space.



Years later on Earth, Megatron Launches his invasion on Chicago, he deploys hundreds of ships. One carrier ship launches a salvo of missiles, wrecking a building. And the smaller fighters swarm all over the city.

When the Autobots return after being assumed destroyed, they shoot one down. Bumblebee manages to pilot the fighter. He takes Sam to Trump Tower where Carly is being held. Later, one of the bigger fighters, hovers outside the building, when he thinks he sees something, he leaps out of the open cockpit and through a window. Epps and his team manage to dispatch him though.

Later, after being left behind by Leadfoot, Wheelie and Brains find a crashed fighter and pilot it to a carrier ship. They only just manage to land in the ships hanger. Inside the ship, they wreck its internal systems by pulling out wires and circuits, causing the ship to crash into the river running through Chicago and saving several Autobots from execution thanks to the distraction.

When Sentinel starts to be overwhelmed by the Autobots and NEST, he calls in the remaning ships and Decepticons to attack. Optimus tries to hold them off with his machine-guns, and although he destroys several, there's too many and he starts to get overwhelmed. However, missiles are launched from a nearby base and guided by a laser designator, destroy most of the remaning fighters.

When the space bridge is destroyed, all the remaning ships are sucked up into Cybertron which explodes, presumably destroying them.

Merchandise

 * Starscream Orbital Assault Carrier (2011)
 * This Legion sized figure of Starscream comes with an "Orbital Assault carrier". This "carrier" appears to be based on the smaller fighter craft in Dark of the moon.. This vehicle can turn into a weapons platform, a carrier Starscream can ride, and the separate fighter mode. The Starscream figure itself is a slight re-mould of the previous Legends mould.