skip bombing

noun

1. bombing, as by a low-flying plane, carried out so that each bomb, when released, skips along the surface below before striking the target.

Example Sentences

The competition consisted of aerial gunnery at 12,000 feet and 20,000 feet, skip bombing, rocket firing, panel strafing and dive bombing, according to the Air Force.

From Washington Post

Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing as a standard technique against Japanese ships.

From Time Magazine Archive