glide bomb

English

Noun

glide bomb (plural glide bombs)

1. A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.
   • 2024 January 8, Carlotta Gall, Vladyslav Golovin, Mauricio Lima, “Exhausted, on the Defensive and at ‘Hell’s Gate’ in Ukraine”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The destruction wrought by glide bombs is visible in towns and villages near the front line.

Derived terms

• glide bomber

Verb

glide bomb (third-person singular simple present glide bombs, present participle glide bombing, simple past and past participle glide bombed)

1. To bomb using glide bombs

Alternative forms

• glide-bomb

Further reading

• glide bomb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia