Skywatch transport aircraft

Skywatch transport aircraft are vehicles from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Observed operating in tandem with crash suits in anti-Cybertronian activity, Skywatch transport aircraft provide a means of deploying these units via aerial insertion.

Each suit is carried underneath one of the wing-mounted engine pods before deployment. As yet, it is unknown what other specifications these craft possess, or what kind of means (if any) they may have regarding extracting suits already deployed.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Three transports were deployed carrying a Skywatch unit led by Spike Witwicky when Breakdown was discovered attacking a power station. Only two craft were shown carrying suits, though whether the third craft was doubling as an armed escort is unclear. ...For All Mankind