Kilrathi
Dralthi
Dralthi is a family of Kilrathi fighters, not one airframe. The silhouette people mean is the bat wing. The first of the line, the KF-100 in 2521, did not have those wings. The Dralthi IV is the late-war variant flown in large numbers in 2669, and it is the set of numbers in the table.
| Fact | Reading | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Class on the infobox | Medium fighter | 1 source (WCPedia) |
| Conflicting label | Some WCPedia prose calls the IV a light fighter | same page, both kept |
| Length / mass | 31 m / 15 t | 1 source (WCPedia) |
| Speed | 430 kps, afterburner 1100 kps | 1 source (WCPedia) |
| Guns | 1 particle cannon, 2 meson blasters, 4 ImRecs | 1 source (WCPedia) |
| Shields / armour | 120 cm shields; 80 cm fore/aft, 60 cm sides | 1 source (WCPedia) |
The line, year by year
KF-100 arrives in 2521 without the famous wings. Dralthi I is dated 2645. The Mk II is 2655. A Dralthi III is described as a light scout. The IV, dated 2669, is the last variant of the Kilrathi War itself. Later marks — VI, VII and IX — belong to the Nephilim years, when the same hull family is still at the front in the 2680s. Landreich forces and the Ragark clan both fly the IV. I am not going to invent a "best mark" for a model kit. The IV is simply the one with a full infobox.
Acceleration is printed as 200 k/s², with yaw/pitch/roll of 55/65/55 degrees per second. Crew is one. Six decoys. If you meet it in Heart of the Tiger, the same page calls the shields weak relative to the size of the target and the acceleration modest. That is a fighting note from the wiki, not a claim I timed in a mission.
Where the word shows up in the games
Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV are the games on the infobox. The earlier sprites in the 1990 and 1991 games are the older marks, and I will not paste the IV's 430 kps onto a VGA Dralthi. Search traffic for the bare word is about the silhouette. The film uses its own ships; those are not this infobox either. Related reading: the Kilrathi and the full table.
Questions people ask
Is the Dralthi a medium or a light fighter?
The infobox says medium. A sentence on the same WCPedia page says light. Both stay. I follow the infobox in the title and mention the clash.
Which Dralthi is in Wing Commander 3?
The IV, the 2669 variant, is the one with these stats.
Sources
- WCPedia: Dralthi IV — checked 2026-11-08
- WCPedia: Kilrathi — checked 2026-11-08