| | The Starfleet Museum - Klingon D5 Cruiser |
 | | The D5 retained the ventral hull extension where the D4's plasma cannon had been but instead used the hull space for cargo bays and a shuttlecraft deck. |
 | | The D5 carried a new, more powerful sensor suite intended to defeat the most recent generation of Romulan cloaking systems, new sensor-countermeasures of its own, a more robust energetic shielding system, and new rapid-fire disruptor cannons with more accurate targeting control. |
 | | Although the new D5 cruiser, with a maximum speed of wf 5.6, was only slightly slower than the Federation's LANCASTER-class heavy cruiser introduced in 2205 (maximum speed, wf 5.8), the Klingons did not take advantage of this tactical near-parity to challenge the Federation with large-scale fleet actions. |
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