Starhawk bombers are larger, slower craft, designed to carry a heavy payload of [[plasma bomb]]s and armour-piercing missiles, for use against enemy capital ships. Crewed by a pilot, co-pilot, [[tech-priest]] (plus acolytes), various turret gunners and a logistics officer, a standard Starhawk features limited sleeping quarters, chemical toilets and even an automated medical unit inside its hull. Armed with a multitude of short-range turret-mounted defence weapons, used to fend off enemy starfighters, a lone Starhawk can wreak havoc among enemy fighter squadrons before swooping in to deliver a crippling missile strike on an enemy capital ship. On rare occasions, Starhawks can be modified to carry and launch a very small number of anti-starship [[torpedoes]].

The Starhawk features in the standard complement of most capital ships designed to deploy navy wings, although some of the less well -equipped sub -sector fleets continue to use the marauder Marauder as their prime primary bomber.