List of Decepticon Ships (DOTM)

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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

Ships attacking Chicago

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 armed with missile pods above the "Bridge" and on each flank. They are very versatile, and they carry their own personal fighter escort.

The fighter craft store in the sides of the these ships for refueling and resupplying. 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. When changing positions, the whole body of the aircraft reconfigures.

There are at least three different types of Fighters, some are bigger, with larger engine turbines, fixed weapons mounts, and open cockpits. They include:

• The small version.

This smallest versions consist of two smaller mobile engines, with a closed cockpit in front, and a single, fixed, gun emplacement. These craft also have small wings.

• The medium sized version.

This is similar to the small version, but with a larger body and mobile engine pods. It also has two more mobile weapons appendages. The whole can also be reconfigured for different attack modes.

This is the model that is hijacked by Bumblebee.

• The largest version.

This has a shorter, wider and more rounded appearance than the other two and has six, smaller engines but they are not movable like those of the smaller versions and have fixed gun emplacements.

Fiction

Dark of the Moon film

While the Ark tries to escape Cybertron, five fighters attack the ship. They pursue it through the bombed-out city until they start to leave the atmosphere. A fighter launches a missile that springs open and releases eight separate homing rockets that form a spiral. They hit the Ark, sending it tumbling through Space.

Years later on Earth, Megatron launches his invasion on Chicago where he deploys hundreds of the ships. The carrier ships launch salvos of missiles, wrecking buildings while the smaller fighters swarm all over the city causing destruction and killing many people.

When the Autobots show up in Chicago after being assumed destroyed, Optimus Prime shoots one down and the Wreckers kill the pilot. Bumblebee manages to pilot the fighter and takes Sam to Trump Tower where Carly is being held. Laserbeak knocks it out of the sky by sending a mini UAV into one of its engines, but Sam manages to position Laserbeak's head in front of one of the fighter's guns, allowing Bumblebee to decapitate him with a shot.

While Sam, Carly, Epps and his team are in the Hudson Tower, one of the fighters hovers outside the building and spots them. The pilot then jumps into the building, but the team manages to evade him.

Later, after being accidentally 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 Prime is overwhelmed by the attacking Autobots and NEST team, he calls in the remaining ships and Decepticons to attack. Optimus Prime tries to hold them off and destroys several of them, but he is eventually outnumbered and outgunned. Fortunately, the US Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles arrive, being guided by a laser designator held by one of the NEST team members, and destroy most of the remaining fighters.

When the space bridge is destroyed, all the remaining ships are sucked up into Cybertron which implodes, presumably destroying them. Dark of the Moon

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.

Notes

• The carriers have tentacles that hang down under the ships. The purpose of these are unknown.

• Most of the fighters seem to shoot some sort of beam or plasma with shockwaves that tear humans to shreds, leaving nothing but some burnt bones, and clothes, as seen in the movie.
  • This weapon is very similar to the ones used by the Martian Tripods seen in the 2005 adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

• There are at least three different variations of the fighter craft.

• Some of the larger ships look like Phantom Class Dropships from the Halo series.