8 Results found for "torpedo oneself".

lash out

2022: Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the...


open the range

on 3 November 2022: In the confusion, Johnston manages another about-face and heads away to open the range, with its torpedoes spent. close the range...


burn one's boats

burnt one's boats) To cut oneself off from all chance of retreat; to stake everything on success. burn one's bridges damn the torpedoes go for broke...


submarine

grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, po' boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge (antonym(s) of “boat”): surface ship fleet submarine screen door...


spread

always had the same pink luncheon-meat. (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy...


face

2 : 2 USN)‎[5], archived from the original on 4 December 2022: Then, the torpedo bombers arrived, but, unlike those that had dealt Hornet such a heavy blow...


arm

(IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎[3], archived from the original on 17 October 2022: Torpedoes were loosed, but the range was too short for them to actually arm, and...


take

almost monitor-style bulges, to be able to take multiple air-dropped torpedo attacks, but also to just, literally, slap on four inches of deck armor...