Dalek flying saucer Flying saucers were the most common spaceship s used by the Dalek s from their early history , through the Last Great Time War and beyond , proving to be an integral part of the Dalek war machine . History . Development . The Daleks began to research space travel when a Krattorian ship piloted by a slave - owner Kest landed on Skaro . Interested in seizing the ship for themselves , they began examining it . Kest ' s escaped slaves Sala and Astolith managed to steal the ship , killing Kest and leaving Skaro . However , by then the Daleks had learned enough about spaceship operation to begin the construction of their own spacecrafts . ( COMIC : " Power Play " ) Research was delayed when the Daleks encountered the problem of metal fatigue . They needed a material that could withstand more heat than their own casings . When Dalek scientist Zeg accidentally discovered such a material in metalert , he claimed it would suit their needs but a power struggle resulted between him and the Dalek Emperor . Zeg was destroyed in a duel but the Emperor decreed they would improve on the metalert experiments , allowing them to resume to space travel program . ( COMIC : " Duel of the Daleks " ) The Daleks built prototype ships such as " Proto 1 " , " 4 " , and " 9 " . " Proto 13 " had a flying saucer design , was successful in take off , space flight , and entering / exiting hyperspace . It became the standard Dalek ship . ( COMIC : " The Amaryll Challenge " ) Early history . The Daleks used saucers when invading planet s , including the 22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth . Each saucer was under the command of a Dalek Saucer Commander . They were all caught in the upshot of an explosion when their base in Bedfordshire blew up . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) The First Doctor , Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom stole a Dalek saucer to escape the planet Mira . Thousands more were part of the invasion fleet the Daleks planned to use to wipe out the solar system . They were destroyed by the Time Destructor . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " , PROSE : " The Mutation of Time " ) During the course of the Daleks ' Great War , Thal forces destroyed 200 Dalek saucers in Sector Seven , and the Draconian s destroyed half of the Dalek fleet along the Draconian frontier . ( PROSE : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Saucers were present on Earth when the Daleks retried their invasion of the 22nd century , following the destruction of the Second World Peace Conference . ( HOMEVID : " Day of the Daleks " ) The Daleks used a saucer to destroy Earth satellite s during the Cold War , hoping the American s and the Russia ns would blame each other and the conflict would escalate . The saucer landed at the bottom of the ocean , sealed within a pressure dome , where it was to wait until the Daleks saw the perfect moment to strike . However , it was infiltrated by the Doctor who contacted a submarine , the HMS " Pandora " , and ordered it to fire on the ship . The Daleks died as the ship flooded . ( COMIC : " The Threat from Beneath " ) The saucers were a huge part the Dalek Empire ' s war effort during the Second Dalek War of the 26th century . At the very beginning of the war , the Supreme Dalek ' s saucer was stolen by a group of Thal s who used it to escape Spiridon , causing the Supreme Dalek to send for a rescue craft . ( TV : " Planet of the Daleks " ) Another saucer , named the " Exterminator " , was a supreme " Exterminator " - class flagship belonging to the Dalek Inquisitor General , Dalek X , which contained over 500 Daleks . When the " Exterminator " was destroyed at the end of the war on the planet Hurala , the Dalek fleet was pushed right back from Earth - Space . ( PROSE : " Prisoner of the Daleks " ) After the Dalek war , a Dalek saucer travelled to the planet Exxilon in search of parrinium . All of its power was taken by the Exxilon City . When the power was restored , the ship took off . It was destroyed by Dan Galloway , who had stowed away on the ship with a Dalek bomb , which he detonated . ( TV : " Death to the Daleks " ) Much later in their history , the Daleks launched over a thousand Dalek Saucers into the Time Vortex . These forces were stopped by the Eighth Doctor , who left them trapped in the vortex . ( AUDIO : " The Time of the Daleks " ) The Time Lord s later made a deal with the Daleks that allowed them to leave the Time Vortex . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) The Last Great Time War . During the Last Great Time War each saucer contained over two thousand Daleks each and were small and bronze - coloured , the same colour as the drone Daleks of that time , as they had been in the Second Dalek War ( PROSE : " Prisoner of the Daleks " ) . In addition , they held multiple Dalek fighter pod s . The flagship was the same colour but many times larger and contained both Dalek drone s " and " the Emperor ' s Personal Guard s . ( TV : " Bad Wolf " ) A fleet of Dalek saucers in the Tantalus Spiral were forced to retreat by the Fifth Time Lord Battle Fleet . The War Doctor and Cinder investigated inside one of their saucers on the city of Andor on Moldox . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) On the final day of the Time War , ten million Dalek saucers ( TV : " Dalek " ) surrounded Gallifrey and launched their biggest attack ever . The saucers bombarded the planet from orbit and deployed countless Daleks and Dalek fighter pods to invade the surface . Many Dalek saucers entered the Gallifrey ' s atmosphere and attacked the Capitol of the Time Lord s itself . Although the Capitol was badly damaged , the Sky Trenches held . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Dozens of Dalek saucers were shot down during the battle , and crashed around the Capitol . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) At the end of the War , the Doctor s froze Gallifrey in time , causing the Dalek fleet firing on the planet from all directions to blast itself apart , although everyone would believe they all burned with the planet . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Emperor ' s flagship survived and fell through time to about the 2000th century . The Dalek Emperor built two hundred ships of his fleet and created half a million new Daleks to rule . They attacked Earth , distorting entire continents with their attack , but were all destroyed by the Bad Wolf entity . ( TV : " Bad Wolf " / " The Parting of the Ways " ) The New Dalek Empire used saucers with a modified appearance in their 2009 invasion of Earth . Though the Daleks themselves could fly and had personal weaponry , smaller versions of the saucers served as fighter craft . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) The Dalek ships were destroyed by the Meta - Crisis Tenth Doctor along the Crucible and the Daleks of the Empire . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) The New Dalek Paradigm . One ship survived an encounter with the Doctor , and fell through time to 1941 , acquiring a Progenitor . This ship hid behind the Moon . When the three surviving Daleks on board were confronted by the Eleventh Doctor , they used a beacon on the ship to activate all the lights in London , leaving it vulnerable to the German Blitz . Enhanced Spitfire s were sent to destroy the beacon . Two were destroyed by the Dalek defence guns mounted around the saucer , but the Eleventh Doctor disabled the ship ' s shields and the dish was destroyed . The new Daleks escaped in their ship through a time corridor . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) A single Dalek saucer was used by a platoon of Daleks to recover their lost Time Axis from the " SS Lucy Gray " . The ship was fired into the sun . ( GAME : " Return to Earth " ) The Dalek ship escaped by making a random jump several hundred years into the past . The Daleks attempted to force the Doctor to fix their ship by attaching his TARDIS into their ship ; the Doctor escaped and used his TARDIS to fling their ship into a black hole . ( GAME : " Evacuation Earth " ) Dalek saucers were used in the attack on Station 7 when the Daleks conducted a search for " the Abomination " . They disguised their saucers as asteroids which they discarded when the attack began . All were destroyed — save one , which was used by an SSS officer to travel home — when caught in a deliberate volcanic eruption . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) When the Daleks joined the Alliance formed to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica to save the Universe , many Dalek saucers were part of the Alliance fleet which arrived at Stonehenge in 102 A . D . The Doctor stated that a typical Dalek battle fleet contained a minimum of twelve thousand ships . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) A fleet of Dalek saucers waited above Earth in 2106 when the New Dalek Paradigm invaded London using a piece of the Eternity Clock . The fleet was lead by a Dalek Flagship owned by the Dalek Emperor . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) A contingent of Daleks - in Survey Ships Sigma , Delta and Epsilon - sent on a mission through human history to learn how humans fought war were caught in a Vortex storm and were stranded in 1908 , with Ship Delta being destroyed . Still proceeding with their plan , they were foiled by the Eleventh Doctor and the combined armies of the First World War in 1917 and Ship Sigma was sent crashing to the ground . One hundred years later , some archaeologists discovered the saucer underground and accidentally powered it back up . The Eleventh Doctor arrived just in time and connected the ship to a power line , overloading the reviving Daleks and their ship . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) When the Doctor , Amy and Rory were captured by Dalek puppet s , several saucers were present around the Dalek Parliament . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks ) " On the Dalek Foundation world of Carthedia , the Eleventh Doctor assumed the Daleks would not fire on him and the Blakely children while they stood close to a Dalek saucer , as they risked damaging it . The Doctor was proved wrong as the Daleks opened fire on them , tearing the saucer apart in the process . The Daleks continued to pursue the Doctor across the Sunlight Worlds in other saucers and the Dalek Time Controller retreated in one when it was attacked by Jenibeth Blakely . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) During the Siege of Trenzalore , several saucers were present but by the end , only one was , the others apparently destroyed or having retreated . When the Doctor was granted a new regenerative cycle , the final burst of energy from his first regeneration in the cycle obliterated the saucer as it descended on the Doctor to try to kill him before he could regenerate . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) A saucer chased the Combined Galactic Resistance ship piloted by Journey Blue and her brother , attempting to destroy it and kill the two . The Twelfth Doctor succeeded in rescuing Journey , but her brother died . After " Rusty " turned evil again , he sent out a distress signal from the " Aristotle " and the saucer docked with the ship , dispatching boarding Daleks to slaughter the crew . At first they were successful , but the efforts of the Doctor and Clara Oswald turned " Rusty " against his own kind once more and he slaughtered the other Daleks on board the " Aristotle " . " Rusty " then ordered the saucer to retreat , telling the crew that the humans had activated the " Aristotle ' s " self - destruct . Fearing destruction and believing their mission accomplished , the saucer retreated with " Rusty " joining it to continue his campaign against his species . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " ) A Dalek saucer was chasing a Cyber Ship with a Dalek later named Lumpy inside who had a piece of the Orb of Fates . ( GAME : " The Doctor and the Dalek " ) Weaponry . Dalek flying saucers were equipped with particle beam weapons , ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) magnetise beams to trap escaping ships , ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) missile launchers ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) and a hypnosound device to make targets see what they most feared or desired . ( TV : " Frontier in Space " ) Pre - Time War Dalek saucers could destroy entire planets with ease . Davros threatened to destroy Earth with his killcruiser , ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) The Dalek saucer known as the Parliament of the Daleks was able to destroy the Dalek Asylum planet with a barrage of missiles once its force field was taken down . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " )