bombsight
/ˈbɒmsʌɪt
/noun
A mechanical or electronic device used in an aircraft for aiming bombs.An observer leans over the fuselage of an aircraft to use a Mark 1-A bombsight, the first one designed for aircraft use....
- Toward the end of the war, electronic bombsights, which could aim through clouds, gave American bombers some precision-bombing capability.
- Then he'd look through the Norden bombsight, bouncing in his seat from the flak bursts, release the bombs and utter ‘bombs away’.
- be (or come) nowhere
- be (or find oneself) in a minority of one
- be (or get) across something
- be (or get) dialled in
- be (or get) lost in the shuffle
- be (or get) mixed up in
- be (or get) mixed up with
- be (or get) shut of
- be (or go) on the lash
- be (or go) on the piss
- be (or go) on the shicker
- be (or have a) down on
- be (or have something) written all over one (or one's face)
- be (or look) a picture
- be (or make) friends with
- be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
- be (or put oneself) in another person's shoes
- be (or stand) in awe of
- Beothuk
- be out of here (or there)
- be out of (or have gone out with) the ark
- be out on one's ear
- be over
- Beowulf
- be part and parcel of