The Spectre Class Destroyer is 188 m long, and has a displacement of approximately 85,000 tons. The layout of the Spectre Class is highly unusual . Rather than the flat disc of the 1b starship primary hull, Spectre Class ships have a dorsally streamlined, blunt arrowhead-shaped primary hull. The bridge module is buried deep within rather than atop the primary hull.  The secondary hull houses the warp power assembly (M/AM reactor, AM containment bottles, warp plasma conduits, nacelle supports), twin rearward-firing quantum torpedo launch tubes and a small shuttle bay for the two A-20E attack craft. A shuttlecraft drop bay is located in the ventral primary hull, immediately in front its junction with the secondary hull, and houses the two MS-10 dropships.

   Spectre Class Destroyers are powered by a specially modified, high-capacity 3500+ Cochran Warp Core M/AM reactor, feeding two SSWR-45D MOD I Rotary Warp Nacelles. The plasma conduits are routed through the primary phaser couplings, increasing overall performance by 30%. The nacelles each weigh approximately 20,000 ton and together account for nearly 50% of the ship's total displacement. Primary impulse power is provided by twelve FIB-3 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Units (SUEIU) with secondary impulse power provided by six VSR SUEIU.

   Spectres are extremely heavily armed for a ship of their size. The improved Type XII pulse phaser cannons and MK-75 quantum torpedo launch system are similar to those used in the Defiant class. In addition, facilities are available for a platoon of 40 power-suited Marines, who can land on planetary surfaces with transporters or assault craft or enter ships and space stations with specialized grapples and hull bores.

   The Spectre Class also carries an outstanding sensor-countermeasures array. They include a cloaking device, the ability to clear a sensor-blind corridor several hundred kilometers wide along which others ships could follow undetected, and a "ghost" capability that allows multiple false sensor images to be projected at a distance of several hundred thousand kilometers. For intelligence gathering, Spectres carry a wide array of active and passive onboard sensors as well as facilities for releasing sensor probes and servicing sensor buoys.

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