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Cliffjumper is a red Autobot warrior who appears in various Transformers media, such as the animated series, books and comics. Learn about his history, abilities, weapons, alternate modes and appearances in different versions of the franchise.
Petropavlovsk was a Gangut-class dreadnought built for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. She participated in the Russian Civil War, the Winter War and World War II, and was sunk by German bombers in 1941.
The M10 tank destroyer, also known as Wolverine, was an American self-propelled anti-tank gun of World War II. It mounted a 3-inch gun in a rotating turret on a modified M4 Sherman tank chassis and was used by several Allied countries.
The 3-inch/23-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" × 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.) [1]
The 3-inch 20 cwt gun was superseded by the QF 3.7-inch (94 mm) AA gun from 1938 onwards, but numbers of various Marks remained in service throughout World War II. In Naval use it was being replaced in the 1920s by the QF 4-inch (100 mm) Mk V on HA (high-angle) mounting.
The Japanese Type 41 3-inch (76 mm) naval gun otherwise known as the 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun was a direct copy of the English QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun.The original 12-pounders were built-up guns with a single-motion interrupted screw breech that fired Fixed Quick Fire ammunition and had bottom mounted hydro-pneumatic recoil systems.
The Sōryū-class submarines (16SS) are diesel-electric attack submarines.The first boat in the class entered service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 2009. The design is an evolution of the Oyashio-class submarine, from which it can most easily be distinguished by its X-shaped stern combination diving planes and rudders.
The 3-inch gun M5 was an anti-tank gun developed in the United States during World War II. The gun combined a 3-inch (76.2 mm) barrel of the anti-aircraft gun T9 and elements of the 105 mm howitzer M2. The M5 was issued exclusively to the US Army tank destroyer battalions starting in 1943.