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Bronze Dalek drones and their red commanders. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)

The Dalek drone was the most common Dalek model. (TV: Victory of the Daleks, GAME: City of the Daleks) They were used as the main "foot soldier", which led to them very occasionally being called warrior Daleks. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)

Variations

  • Pre-Time War
  • Post-Time War
  • Post-Resurrection drone

Pre-Time War

During and after the Time War

During the Last Great Time War, the new standard Dalek basic design had no major alterations except for an expanded base and an overall heavier, more solid look. The Daleks also had a metallic brass finish. The ear-bulbs were much larger and cylindrical and both the eyestalk and indicator lights glowed blue.

This Dalek design was also more advanced, with a swivelling mid-section that allowed the Dalek a 360-degree field of fire and a force field that disintegrated bullets before they struck it.

This Dalek design also had advancements to the eye stalk in which heat would melt anything off the lens. (TV: Stolen Earth)

It was also able to regenerate itself by absorbing electrical power and the DNA of a time traveller. The manipulator arm was also able to crush a man's skull in addition to the technology interfacing abilities shown by earlier models. (TV: Dalek)

At least the Cult of Skaro could also remotely interface with technology without using the manipulator arm and be able to have "Emergency Temperal Shift" functions. (TV: Doomsday)

The Daleks which escaped the destruction of the Crucible (TV: Journey's End) camouflaged themselves as "Ironsides" which were supposedly created by Edwin Bracewell. These Daleks were khaki-green coloured, probably because it was a self-applied paint job in order to perpetuate the deception that they were obedient war robots. Following the restoration of the Dalek race, the standard Daleks became a bright red colour, but were otherwise no different from their superiors. The original three Daleks were then destroyed by their "superior" successors. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)

While the design of the New Dalek Paradigm drone was mass-produced some of the time, (GAME: City of the Daleks, COMIC: The Only Good Dalek) the Daleks later chose to mass-produce the design seen in the Last Great Time War again. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)

However, the Time War design of the Daleks in also used by them in the Second Dalek War, in PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks, which is set before the Time War. It is possible that the Daleks which started the war, seen in TV: Frontier in Space & Planet of the Daleks, upgraded their casings after failing to retrieve their army in Planet of the Daleks, and the design was later used to fight the Time War.