Jem'Hadar fighter
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| Jem'Hadar fighter* | |
|---|---|
| Category | Light Multi-role vessel |
| Expected Duration | 80 years |
| Time Between Resupply | 3 months |
| Time Between Refit | 4 years |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 43 |
| Officers | 1 (Vorta) |
| Marines | 42 |
| Passengers | 6 |
| Maximum (Evacuation) Capacity | 32 |
| Speed | |
| Cruising Velocity | Warp 6.8 |
| Maximum Velocity | Warp 8.9 |
| Emergency Velocity | Warp 9.2 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 90 meters |
| Width | 93 meters |
| Height | 18.9 meters |
| Decks | 5 |
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Jem'Hadar fighters (also referred to as attack ships ) are a small class of starship in use by the Dominion beginning in the 2360s. They are the backbone of the Dominion fleet and fulfilled a variety of roles from scouting or patrol duties, to transporting assault forces.
These ships were small, agile attack ships whose design is vaguely similar to an insect. In fact, many Starfleet personnel refer to them as a "scarab", "bug ship", or "warbug". It is an extremely tough and well-built vessel, although it has short range and almost no crew support facilites, such as a Sickbay or replicators. It's crew is comprised of a Vorta that serves as captain, and a Jem'Hadar First that was Executive Officer, along with 41 other crewmates that also served as combat troops. The Bridge has no chairs; the Commanding Officer stood in the center of the room with all other stations facing him in a circle.
They were capable of operations in a planetary atmosphere and were able to land and take off from a planet's surface but were not designed to perform battle maneuvers while in a planet's atmosphere. They can disembark troops through a ventral ramp.
Armament & Defensive Systems
The primary weapons of the fighters were powerful phased polaron beams which were produced from emitters located on the nose of the vessels. During the initial engagements between the Dominion and the Federation in the 2370s, the fighters weapons were easily able to penetrate the shields of Federation starships. This would be later fixed by the retro-fitting of auto-modulating shields to the majority of Starfleet vessels. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar", "Call to Arms")
As well as possessing advanced transporter technology that allowed transport through the shields of Federation starships, an advanced deflector also allowed the ships to be immune to the effects of a tractor beam. This type of system was unknown by the Federation Alliance, and they continue to try and reverse-engineer it to this day. Cloaking devices also did not work well against them, as their sensor arrays used an antiproton beam and a long-range tachyon scanner, both of which could detect such technology. Because they were easily destroyed by fire from a larger ship, Dominon fighters usually fought in units of three. They were also not above employing kamikaze attacks to destroy their targets, which was first witnessed in the destruction of the USS Odyssey. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar"; "Tears of the Prophets")
Armament
- Phased polaron beam weapon or System 4 disrupters: 4
- Unspecified torpedo launcher
- Breen energy dissipator weapon (retrofitted in 2375; rendered ineffective once Federation and Romulan ships developed counter)