Aerial Torpedo

Definition: Aerial Torpedo

Aerial Torpedo

Noun

1. A torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, 4 June 1942. Photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24). Yorktown is heeling to port and is seen at a different aspect than in other views taken by Pensacola, indicating that this is the second of the two torpedo hits she received. Note very heavy anti-aircraft fire.Credit: NAVY.

Ships maneuvering between Tulagi and Guadalcanal during the Japanese aerial torpedo attack on 8 August 1942. USS President Jackson (AP-37) is at left. HMAS Australia is in the center distance, with anti-aircraft shells bursting nearby. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398).Credit: NAVY.

Crewmen of USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942.Credit: NAVY.

Largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398).Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hungarian

légi torpedó, légi bomba, légi akna (fragmentation bomb). (various references)

Manx

torpaid aer. (various references)

Pig Latin

aerialay orpedotay

Turkish

uçaktan atılan torpido. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: praetorial, retailored.

-4 letters: arteriole, deaerator, doorplate, leporidae, perorated, raptorial, reradiate, trailered.

-5 letters: adroiter, aerolite, areolate, arterial, depilate, deplorer, detailer, dioptral, dipteral, dolerite, droopier, elaterid, eradiate, idolater, idolator, lapidate, lariated, lepidote, loitered, loiterer, operated, operator, paltered, palterer, paltrier, parietal, parotoid, parroted, pearlier, pearlite, pedalier, perorate, petaloid, petiolar, petioled, pileated, portaled, portered, portiere, portlier, praedial, predator, pretrial, priorate, prorated, proteide, radiator, railroad, rapiered, reloader, repaired, replated, reported, retailed, retailer, retailor, retooled, tailored, tapadero, teardrop, toreador, toroidal, trapdoor, treadler, tripedal, tripodal, troopial.

+3 letters: macrolepidoptera.

+5 letters: electrocardiograph.

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