Flareship
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.
"Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass."
Example
More examples"Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass."
Etymology
From flare + ship.
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