Rocketdyne Omega Class Destroyer EAS Lankinen

Omega class destroyer is one of the many iconic space ships from the tv-series Babylon 5. This Warp models' polyurethane resin model is in scale 1:4000. In the show Rocketdyne started Omega destroyers' development during the Earth-Minbari war. None were completed before the Battle of Line. Shortly after the war mass production started to replace the losses during the war and let older Nova class dreadnoughts and Hyperion heavy cruisers to retire.

Nova's design was developed further in the Omega. Rotating sector allows the crew to operate in gravity which improved efficiency. Destroyer's lenght is 1714,3 meters and it has four particle thrust engines powered by 4 fusion reactors. Omega class ships are hyperspace jump cabable and they can navigate far into the uncharted space for the duration of 18 months.Omega's two main guns are 52mm Plasma Pulse Cannons at the fore and 4 Heavy Particle-Lasers at the aft. As a secondary guns there are 12 turrets along the ships hull. Adding to the ship's enormous firepower and protection it carries 36 Starfury or Thunderbolt fighters and maximum of 18 000 troops. Complement is 250 officers and 1000+ crew.

Earthforce's backbone are the ubiquitous Omega destroyers. The most significant engagements where they have taken a part are the Earth civil war 2260-2261 and the Drakh war 2266-2271.