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dive bomber
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dive bomber
a military aircraft designed to release its bombs on a target during a steep dive
dive bomber [′dīv ‚bäm·ər]
(aerospace engineering)
An aircraft designed to release bombs during a steep dive.
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Changing from one type of aircraft to another seemed not to require any transition at all--pilots moved from dive-bomber to fighter merely by sitting in the cockpit for a spell and then taking off to learn by doing.
The Hostile Sky: a Hellcat Flyer in the Pacific by Mets, David R. / Air & Space Power Journal
I have even been persuaded to concede one point that affects the timing in my scenario for the operation to rearm the torpedo planes and dive-bombers on the Japanese carriers.
In My View by Naval War College Review
At 7:51am the first Japanese dive-bombers swooped down to strafe Hickam Airfield and the naval air base on Ford Island.
Horror day that paradise became hell by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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