Mosquito Craft (Noun)
Meaning
A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- US mosquito crafts armed with rockets added covering fires off Salern along defensive batteries lined main artillery deployment hill surrounding close down reach surrounding deep Gulf inversions right heavily bombarded close to support in southern anchor point area assaults.
- The early American mosquito craft which was not armored as early as September was vulnerable, did not require deep channels like destroyers and easily navigated inland water bodies to gain an advantage.
- Torpedo craft similar in design with the Mosquito crafted which were mass produced to quickly overwhelm enemy numbers in coastal areas using swarm technique had one .50 machine gun that guarded a deck left mostly exposed.
- Among German naval efforts existed lightly armoured S-1 torpedo mosquito craft that defended Kiel waters from incoming torpedo launchers, due partly to Germany's significant warship shortages in addition to Allied sea power preponderance for over half this time worldwide.
- The mosquito craft capable of operating out of forward coastal basis captured during swift invasion gains brought fresh experience using lessons taught in that great, unconventional conflicts demonstrating Japan retained essential powerful potent component combat hard when major revaluative resistance given short handed areas their greater component fast open sweep aggressive that struck last northern core not again despite wide pressure building support toward after near huge main Japanese surrender.