Skywatch gunship

Skywatch gunships are examples of Cybertronian-derived technology seen on Earth, from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Skywatch gunships provide airborne close firepower support for anti-Cybertronian Skywatch operations.

These gunships are armed with side-mounted particle cannons, intended as lethal force weapons against Autobot or Decepticon targets. Other details regarding these units' capabilities are as yet unspecified.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

After the Decepticon Breakdown was successfully captured, Spike Witwicky ordered the particle cannons on the supporting gunship to be armed, in order to give the impression that Breakdown was to be terminated. This gambit - to lure out other Cybertronians in the area - worked, as Prowl revealed himself - only to be caught in turn by an infantry-launched inhibitor. ...For All Mankind