| 单词 | loft-bombing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasloft-bombing loft-bombing n. (see quot. 19561). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1956 Time 24 Sept. 36 Its [sc. a low-flying fighter-bomber's] bombing can be made extremely accurate, but if it uses any ordinary bombing system, such as dive-bombing, it is apt to be vaporized by the fireball springing up under its tail. The best way to avoid this misadventure is ‘loft-bombing’, which uses the speed of the airplane to make the bomb behave like an artillery shell. 1956 Time 24 Sept. 36 The main advantage of loft-bombing..is not the range of the bomb, but the time that it spends in the air while the airplane is making its get-away. 1960 Aeroplane 99 352/2 The first L.A.B.S. manœuvre was complete by an A3D, in which loft bombing had been pioneered by Cmdr. H. F. Lang. < as lemmas |
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