Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor

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The name or term "Vanguard" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Vanguard (disambiguation).

A Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor is a large and heavily armed spacecraft. The most famous ship of its class is the Ark.

Fiction

A number of Vanguard-class ships left Cybertron when the Great War broke out. Their departure was recorded on history tapes that Spike, Carly, and Swoop viewed. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

After leaving Torax Prime following the demise of Squadron X, Ferak and Tornado traveled through space on a modified escape pod. They were intercepted by an Autobot Vanguard-class fighter and were about to be arrested for but were saved by the arrival of the Star Seeker warship Tidal Wave, which destroyed the Autobot ship. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, 2014/03/18

According to Garrison Blackrock, the Cybertronian word used to name the Ark vessels more accurately translates into English as "Vanguard". Lagrange

The Ark was a Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor. Matrix of Leadership

Sideswipe described the Ark as a Vanguard-class. Fall of Cybertron

The Vanguard-class designation was first assigned to the Ark's ship class in Transformers: The Ultimate Guide.
The pseudocanonical novel Alignment includes a type of starship named "Vanguard Command ships". As Simon Furman also wrote The Ultimate Guide, Alignment may be the first usage of the "Vanguard" idea.