WordNet
homing torpedo
n. a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)
Usage examples of "homing torpedo".
The pilot released the homing torpedo, feeling his craft lurch up and sideways from the sudden loss of weight.
Normally she would have simply ordered a homing torpedo dispatched and forgotten the matter.
The plane will give Hector a course and when he is in range Hector will cut loose with a homing torpedo and that will be the end of the skunk.
At the opening of the war our main weapons were the long-range homing torpedo, dirigible ball-lightning and the various modifications of the Klydon beam.