Orbital Assault Carrier (DOTM)

The Medium sized Decepticon Fighter is the most common Fighter and the most agile. This is the model that is Hijacked by Bumblebee

Biography
Shape The Fighter has a hud-shaped cockpit that can rotate 360 degrees and up and down during reconfiguration. There are two long engines that are attached just towards the corner of the Cockpit. the engines can rotate 360 degrees and can twist in any position. the cockpit has one small hatch on top for smaller pilots, but if your a larger pilot, the whole cockpit will transform into a open space. If you removed the guns and engines, it would look like an AAT from Star Wars.

Weaponry The Medium Fighter has many weapons. its two primary weapons are its plasma cannons. When not in Plasma Mode, they will shoot ordinary fighter bullets. But when the 2 cannons connect together, they will form a large Plasma Cannon that turns humans into bones,skulls, and burnt clothes. Its secondary weapons are its 2 hanging shotguns. They hang right under the Plasma cannons. When in reconfiguration, the plasma cannon muzzles will flip and switch with the shotguns. The fighters other weapons include: 8 seperate Machine Guns, 2 rocket launchers, and 3 other unkown weapons.

Methods of Attack

Medium Fighters usually stay in grous of 1-6. And when toegther, they can shoot down entire human aircraft fleets. When alone, the Fighters will use its plasma cannons to kill anyhumans passing by.

Refueling When the Fighter needs to Refuel, it will reconifugre into Fuel mode, by tucking in its guns and engines. Then, The Decepticon Carrier Ship will use its Tractor Beam to pull the fighter in backwards through the Latch door,then locking it in on the inside wall, right above the Latch door. The Carrier will automaticly refuel the fighter. When the fighter is done with refueling, it will drop out of the latch door, and reconfigure back into attack mode.

Wall Clinging When not refueling, the fighter will turn downwards, then flip its engines forward, proppeling it backward. The fighter will then cling onto the Biudling its closest to. Then it will reconfigure into a bat-like mode. When an enemy passes, the fighter will detach, reconfigure, and pursue the enemy.

Defending

A mode where two fighters wil fly next to a Carrier. They will reconfigure into Defense mode for defense.

Configurations
 * 1) Attack mode: Both plasma cannons are pointed forward, engines straight
 * 2) Defense mode:The engines and Plasma cannons are hanging loosely, along with slow speeds
 * 3) Fuel mode:The guns and engines tuck in, so it can fit into Latch doors
 * 4) Cling mode:Will Straighten out, by becoming flat.
 * 5) Plasma Mode:The 2 plasma Cannons will connect together, and the shotguns will swing and attach underneath.

Fiction
Dark of the Moon film In Transformers 3, this Fighter is used in Dozens of times. When Sentinel Prime launched his Space Bridge, hundreds of Medium fighters rose out of the moons surface along with several other different other fighters. The fighters used the space Bridge to get to Washington DC on Earth, then flew across town.

It is unkown where they flew after this.

Later in the film, hundreds of fighters along with carriers return to chicago, destroying the City. The Medium fighters mostly flew low and killed off humans and vehicles. The rest of the medium fighters gaurded the carriers. Later, when Sam, Epps and the team are entering Chicago, they see hundreds of Medium Fighters and carriers over the city. Later, when Epps and Sam and the Team enter the city, they start having second thoughts when they see three US Aircraft jets get shot down in 4 Seconds by medium Fighters. They decide not to go in, but Sam still wants to. Epps tells him no, but at that moment a Medium Fighter comes in and starts fireing at them, the Fighter misses, and starts shooting other humans that are passing by. It uses its Plasma cannons to kill off most of the Humans. the Fighter flys low right over Sam and Epps and then Reconfigures into Attack mode. It trys to fire at sam, but misses. The Fighter is then shot down by Optimus Prime. The Fighter spins out of control, fireing randomly, then slides underneath a subway train and crashes. A angry Decepticon Pilot breaks out of the cockpit with his gun drawn. But he is sadly ripped to peices by the Wreckers. Optimus and the Wreckers explain ho

w they were in a sperate booster engine on the Xanthium. Then sam thinks that he and Bumblebee can sneak in using the Crashed Medium Fighter. He asks Bumblebee if he can pilot the Fighter. Bumblebee says "so-so". But Sam decides to do it anyway. They fly in, crashing into a destroyed biudling, scraping the top of the subway train, then fly off. They later fly towards the biudling where Carly is being held prisoner. They hover near the buildings balcony, then Sam jumps off onto the Biudling using the Medium Fighters Plasma Cannon as a walkway. He hides under a counter, until Dylan walks in, complaining about how sick of waiting he was. Sam jumps out, surprising Dylan. Laserbeak transforms, and throws sam off the balcony. Carly starts screaming for him, when Bumblebees Fighter hovers over the Balcony, surpising Dylan that sam lived. carly jumps onto the Fighter with Sam. The Fighter turns its guns onto Dylan. Bumblebee instantly starts fireing all of the Fighters guns into the Buidling. After Bumblebee broke all of the

Windows, a UAV drone was flying by to watch the action. Laserbeak flys towards the dro ne and knocks it into the Fighters engine. The enigne bursts into flames, while spinning out of control. The fighter hits a couple of biudlings, while on fire. Sam grabs Laserbeak by the neck, and yells at Bumblebee asking him to fire. Bumblebee fires, decapitating Laserbeak. The Fighter gets to low and hits a Stoplight, then smahses into a small rock wall near the middle of the orad. the firghter flips and spins out fo control, tossing sam off of it. the Fighter crashes into the biudling next to it, and bursts into Flames. Bumblebee survives, and so does Carly.

Later, Wheelie and Brains hijack a Medium Fighter and start playing around with it, but they accidently fly inside a Carrier Ship. They crash iniside, Smash aginast the Pillar, then crash land in the middle of the ship. They both disable the ship, causing the carrier to drop the Fighters Everywhere, killing decepticons and distracting Soundwave from killing Bumblebee. The rest of the Fighters are dropped into the River below, while the Carrier plumets into the river itself.

Towards the end of the film, Bumblebee destroys the pillar, causing Cybertron to suck in the remaining Fighters and Carriers. The remaining Medium Fighters where destroyed.

Merchandise
Starscream Orbital Assault Carrier(2011)
 * Cyberverse set.PNG Legion sized figure of Starscream comes with an "Orbital Assault carrier". This "carrier" appears to be based on the Medium Fighter 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.