flareship

English

Etymology

From flare +‎ ship.

Noun

flareship (plural flareships)

  1. A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.
    • 1968 January, Lou Stalsworth, “Night Owl”, in The Airman, volume XII, number 1, page 10:
      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.
    • 1989 july, Sam McGowan, “Blind Bat”, in AIR FORCE Magazine, volume 72, page 82:
      Originally, the phrase Blind Bat was just the call sign for C-130s on forward air controller/flareship duty over southern Laos.
    • 2024 October 13, Wikipedia contributors, “Dennis Fujii”, in English Wikipedia‎[1], Wikimedia Foundation:
      The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships.
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