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homing torpedo

NOUN
  1. a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)

How To Use homing torpedo In A Sentence

  • The Lynx adds considerably to the destroyer's firepower - it can fly at 180 knots, and has its own Sea Skua anti-ship missiles and homing torpedoes.
  • The decoys are controlled over a serial data link to decoy passive and active homing torpedoes.
  • Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo.
  • However, the German response was to develop the first homing torpedoes.
  • Often, in the mid-Atlantic, after forcing U-boats to crash-dive, carrier planes dropped homing torpedoes on the submarines.
  • It is armed with one homing torpedo, one torpedo rocket and twelve bombs.
  • Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo.
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