dive bomber

American  

noun

1. an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.

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dive bomber British  

noun

1. a military aircraft designed to release its bombs on a target during a steep dive

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Etymology

Origin of dive bomber

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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dive bomber

“I miss him,” Biden said of McCain at the memorial, located near where McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down in 1967 by the North Vietnamese.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Biden was ending the trip at the John Sidney McCain III Memorial near where, as a 31-year-old Navy lieutenant commander, his Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down by the North Vietnamese.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

"It was very frightening - like a stuka dive bomber with screaming motors and the pressure gauges spinning around."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2013

Completing the backdrop behind him on the hangar deck was a Dassault dive bomber.

From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2011

This report says His Majesty's carrier, Staunch, has on board a new type of dive bomber which put a pocket battleship out of action and later landed upon the deck of the carrier.

From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Rutherford George Montgomery