Orbital Assault Carrier (DOTM)

A Medium sized Fighter trieing to shoot humans.

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 Small Pilot hatch.

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 Fighters Plasma cannon.

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 any humans passing by.

Refueling

A Medium Fighters Fuel mode configuration.

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

Two fighters Clinged onto a Biudling

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 will fly next to a Carrier. They will reconfigure into Defense mode for defense.

A example of Defending: 1 fighter on each side of the carrier, each in Defense mode.

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

Medium Fighters Rising out of the Moon.

Medium Fighters flying over Washington DC

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.

A Medium Fighter shooting Humans over a street in Chicago

Dozens of Medium Fighters attack Chicago

A Medium Fighter Fighting with Devcon.

Later, when Sam, Epps and the team are entering Chicago, they see hundreds of Medium Fighters and carriers over the city.

Hundreds of Medium Fighters along with Carriers gaurding Chicago.

Two medium fighters shoot down Human Jets in seconds

A medium fighter opens fire onto the Team

Bumblebee accidenlty crashes into a destroyed Biudling

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

A medium fighter Reconfiguring

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

Sam:"What is is this? oh, so you can so-so can fly."

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 how they were in a sperate booster engine on the

The Pilot breaks out of the Cockpit

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

Dylans Building is destroyed by the Fighter

Bumblebee starts shooting Dylans Buidling.

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

The inside of the Medium Fighter

The Fighter Crashes

ne and knocks it into the Fighters engine. The engine 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 smashes into a small rock wall near the middle of the road. the fighter flips and spins out of control, tossing Sam off of The fighter.The Fighter

The Crashed Fighter

crashes into the biudling next to it, and bursts into Flames. Bumblebee survives, and so does Carly.

The carrier starts dropping medium fighters into the River.

Wheelie and Brains' Fighter inside the Carrier

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 agianst 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.

Throughout the entire film, you can always see Medium Fighters flying over the city.

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.

The Remaning Fighters being sucked into Cybertrons atmosphere

Age of Extinction

The new Better and bigger backwards engines of the Upgraded Fighter

Three other Upgraded Fighters Preparing to attack Bumblebee and Crosshairs

The Gun-Pod attachment to the Back of the Fighter

The Upgraded Medium Fighter from Transformers 4

In Transformers 4, there is a much bigger and more upgraded version of the Medium Sized Fighter. One of its new upgrades is that it has backwards engines, and much bigger engines with jet turbines fixed into them.. It has much bigger guns, and an open cockpit. It also has new 2x2 missle launchers, and a mini gun-pod attached to the back. The Fighter is now faster, stronger, and better then the older version. Cade, Tessa, and Shane were first introduced to the new fighter when Crosshairs backed it up and let them on. They climbed into the Gun pod. Crosshairs flew the fighter, and Bumblebee shot at the pursuing Fighters. Bumblebee used his Grapple Hook to catch a ship, then tossed the ship at a Pursueing Fighter. Then, Corsshairs shot two missles to take out the dam, causing the rubble to fall apon another fighter. Eventually, Crosshairs got bored of flying, so he decided to switch places with bumblebee. Crosshairs explained to Cade and Tessa how the Gun-pod guns worked.(Punch,hold,slide Repeat) Then jumped off and shot down two fighters with his guns. They continued flying, while Cade,Tessa and Shane continued shooting down fighters. They were soon under a bridge, while being pursued by two Small Decepticon Fighters, expect upgraded ones. they shot them down, then escaped the Bridge. They crashed, causing the Gun-pod to go flying, crashing into a "Bud Light" Truck, then crashing onto the hood of a car. The angry man in the car got out and complained to Cade asking him if he had In

"You better have insurance"

surance.

Merchandise

Starscream Orbital Assault Carrier(2011)

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  This 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.

Notes

• For the film, Micheal bay amde a life-sized Model of the Medium fighter for the Film. The gunfire and ThrusterFire was added with speical effects.
• Medium Fighters were the most commonly used Fighters in the film.