USS Joxer - NX-1996

[Thom216]

Did this lil kitbash for a contest on Starship Modeler. It's the 1/1000 Grissom suped up with a Refit's nacelles, torpedo bay and bridge dome to become a Dominion War torpedo boat. Just one of many of the hashed together designs Star Fleet through out there to fight while they were losing ground.

 

 

Thom

Edited March 10, 2021 by Thom216

[Moggy]

I love your design - it looks like all engine ( warp 9+ at least) big on power resources for strong shields. Highly manouverable probably

A huge complememt of quantum torpedos I hope! The Galor-class spoonheads don't have a chance 😜

 

🖖 Live long and prosper, Moggy (Trekkie since age 7)

 

 

[RobL]

Nice.  Oberth class mashed with a Constitution class. 👍

[Thom216]

8 hours ago, Moggy said:

I love your design - it looks like all engine ( warp 9+ at least) big on power resources for strong shields. Highly manouverable probably

A huge complememt of quantum torpedos I hope! The Galor-class spoonheads don't have a chance 😜

 

🖖 Live long and prosper, Moggy (Trekkie since age 7)

 

 

 

8 hours ago, RobL said:

Nice.  Oberth class mashed with a Constitution class. 👍

 

Thanks guys! And yes, Moggy, the lower hull that used to house all the science equipment is now stuffed with torpedoes!😉

[Moggy]

It feels right - while the Defiant class is a superior design, production couldn't get going as fast as needed. So, enter a staple of naval history: lashup of existing decommisioned ships still extant.

 

There's a sad part to this: small corvettes and torpedo boats are (let's be up front with this) disposable. 

So the crews are (probably) young, enthusiastic, with little experience. The officers probably have a handle on what the survival rate might be.

 

In DS 9 sixth season episode 6 "Sacrifice of Angels" Starfleet uses about 70% of the Miranda class light destroyers (themselves improved Reliant class ships) to open a gap in the Dominion fleet battleline.

All died honorably; posthumously succeeding in the task. 💩

 

 

Cheers, Moggy

[Thom216]

2 hours ago, Moggy said:

It feels right - while the Defiant class is a superior design, production couldn't get going as fast as needed. So, enter a staple of naval history: lashup of existing decommisioned ships still extant.

 

There's a sad part to this: small corvettes and torpedo boats are (let's be up front with this) disposable. 

So the crews are (probably) young, enthusiastic, with little experience. The officers probably have a handle on what the survival rate might be.

 

In DS 9 sixth season episode 6 "Sacrifice of Angels" Starfleet uses about 70% of the Miranda class light destroyers (themselves improved Reliant class ships) to open a gap in the Dominion fleet battleline.

All died honorably; posthumously succeeding in the task. 💩

 

 

Cheers, Moggy

Exactly! In fact, Joxer did not survive for long. Her career was short, with just three or four sorties. But she helped take out several Jem'hadar raiders and even a battleship, though the battleship was her last fight. With her consort ship, USS Exeter, damaged and trying to withdraw, and her own warp drive failing, her skipper, Commander Theodore Raimi, set the Joxer on autopilot and had his crew abandon ship. Joxer rammed the battleship amidships and her remaining torpedoes detonated, taking it out. She went out in the proverbial 'blaze of glory.'😪

[F-32]

Superb work!