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Definition of Dive-bombing
1. Noun. A bombing run in which the bomber releases the bomb while flying straight toward the target.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dive-bombing
Literary usage of Dive-bombing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"They are used for either horizontal or dive-bombing. In dive-bombing the planes
swoop down from a high altitude, drop their bombs and zoom up again. ..."
2. Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars by Mark (1995)
"The attackers employed both glide-bombing and dive-bombing. ... But where/flak
was heavy, dive-bombing was necessary to reduce a plane's exposure to it. ..."
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