water bomber

noun

1. an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires

Example Sentences

It was a Canadair aircraft - a "water bomber".

From BBC

The water bomber glides just meters above the lake.

From Literature

It included $80 million to establish a national water bomber fleet, to be paid for through closing tax loopholes for multinationals and the wealthy.

From Slate

Bolivia leased the world’s only Boeing 747 water bomber to fight fires in the Amazon in August, after the plane had been used in Israel in 2016, Chile in 2017 and California in 2018.

From New York Times

A Spanish pilot flying a water bomber in northern Portugal left an Instagram photograph of thick plumes of smoke surrounding wind energy towers on a hill below his wing, with a caption: "This is the largest inferno I have seen in my life."

From Reuters