Cannonball (missile)

The Cannonball Missile also known as the D-40 was designed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University under a U.S. Navy contract in the early 1950s.

The missile originally started out as an anti-ship missile to be launched from submarines. In 1952 the US Army Chief of Ordnance funded the project for development as an anti-tank missile. Between 1953 and 1956, around 50 D-40 missiles were test fired.

Design

The D-40 is a “spherically” shaped missile about 24 inches (61 cm) in diameter and had a maximum range around 3,000 yards (2.7 km). The D-40 was propelled by a solid-fueled rocket and stabilized using three pairs of “tangential rocket nozzles” and was guided originally by radio signals and later by signals sent down a wire trailing behind the missile. The first design, the “D-40A”, weighed 300 lbs while the later versions “D-40B” and D-40C” were around 150 lbs.

The main rocket was angled downward at 45 degrees in order to give the missile the necessary lift and to propel the missile forward. While the six “tangential rocket nozzles” stabilized the missile by controlling the pitch, roll, and yaw. While in flight the missile is guided by means of joystick and binoculars.

List of Transformers: Cybertron characters

This article lists characters that appear in Transformers: Cybertron, the third chapter of the "Unicron Trilogy" series of the Transformers franchise. The series features the entirety of planet Cybertron's civilization evacuating the planet to Earth when it is absorbed by a black hole left via the destruction of Unicron. The Autobots act as the main protagonists of the series, with the Decepticons as the main antagonists. Various characters originate from fictional planets shown throughout the series.

Originally, Cybertron was created in Japan as a separate standalone continuity called Transformers: Galaxy Force, but it was dubbed and edited into Cybertron. During the dub, most characters were renamed into new or previously established character to match with the continuity (e.g. Sideways, Hot Shot, etc.) Cybertron features a large cast of characters, something which has not been seen since the original 1980s cartoon. This show also features an incarnation of popular character Soundwave, again, not seen since the 1980s cartoon.

Cannonball (nickname)

Cannonball is the nickname of:

GMT (disambiguation)

GMT may mean:

GMT (TV series)

GMT is a news programme on BBC World News which premiered on 1 February 2010. The programme's main presenter is George Alagiah, with Stephen Sackur as a relief presenter. Each programme begins with the presenter giving the headlines, then turning to the first story, giving the time in that part of the world. But the programme does not emphasize 'headlines' from BBC World News. 'GMT' apparently refers to Greenwich Mean Time, as the programme commences at 12 noon G.M.T. in London.

Schedule

GMT is aired from 12:00–13:00 GMT (11:00–12:00 GMT during summer time, as 12:00–13:00 BST during summer time) on weekdays on BBC World News. The programme acts as a primetime programme for Asia and also as a breakfast programme for the U.S. East Coast. The programme features analysis and discussion of the top news stories of the day and also previews the exclusive reports, correspondent feature films and interviews planned on BBC World News programme BBC World News America at 00:00 GMT later that day.

UTC+05:40

UTC+05:40 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:40.

UTC+05:40 was sometimes used as an approximation for Nepal Time, which until 1986 was based on Kathmandu mean time, which is at 85°19'E or 5:41:16.

Since 1986 (2043 Bikram Era, used in Nepal) Nepal Time is UTC+05:45.