Meaning of flareship | Babel Free

Definitions

A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.

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.”

“Originally, the phrase Blind Bat was just the call sign for C-130s on forward air controller/flareship duty over southern Laos.”

“The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships.”

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