Oberth class

128 Oberth Class

Program

• Government: UNITED NATIONS GOVERNMENT
• Ship Type: SPACE DESTROYERS

First Oberth class space destroyer commissioned 2005 March. Third space destroyer Tsiolkovsky destroyed after being hijacked 2005 September. 125 destroyers commissioned and in service at the outset of the Battle with Boddole Zer Fleet 2010 February.

Main machinery

• Two main thermonuclear reaction cruise rockets.
• Two battle-use booster rockets.
• Six retro-rockets.
• Vernier belt on nose.

Armament

Cannons

• Four beam cannons.

Missiles

• Eighteen small anti-ship nuclear missile launchers to the rear of main body.
  • RB-5 reaction missiles with variable explosive yield of 20-100 kt.

Radars

• Search: Search and targeting radar.

Dimensions

• Length, overall: about 200m

Ships in class

• Name: OBERTH
  • Commissioned: 2005 Mar
• Name: GODDARD
  • Commissioned: 2005

• Name: TSIOLKOVSKY
  • Commissioned: 2005
  • Destroyed: 2005 Sept

• Name: MIRANDA
  • Destroyed: 2009 Feb

• Name: AKISHIMA
  • Destroyed: 2009 Feb

Background

The actual class (and whether it is Oberth class or not) of the Miranda, Akishima, and later destroyers is unspecified. The first three Oberth class ships are named after aerospace pioneers Hermann Oberth, Robert Goddard, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The similar names in both the Macross and Star Trek franchises are a matter of parallel evolution. (The first appearances of Oberth class ships in both the Macross and Star Trek franchises occured in 1984. Similarly, the first appearances of a ship named Miranda or Miranda class ship in both the Macross and Star Trek franchises occured in 1982.)