radio-dirigible

Updated: May 22, 2025

Offensive beams, rods and daggers of frightful power struck and were neutralized by defensive screens equally capable; the long range and furious dodging made ordinary solid or high-explosive projectiles useless; and both sides were filling all space with such a volume of blanketing frequencies that such radio-dirigible torpedoes as were launched could not be controlled, but darted madly and erratically hither and thither, finally to be exploded harmlessly in mid-space by the touch of some fiercely insistent, probing beam of force.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary

But the Triplanetary forces had one great advantage. In furious haste the Secret Service men had been altering the controls of the radio-dirigible torpedoes, so that they would respond to ultra-wave control; and, few in number though they were, each was highly effective.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary

High-explosive shells, canisters of gas, and the frightful aerial bombs and radio-dirigible torpedoes of highly scientific war all were thrown with lavish hand, as fast as the projectors could be served. But thrust for thrust, ray for ray, projectile for massive projectile, the Brobdingnagian creations of the Vorkuls gave back to the hexans.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC

Bombs, high-explosive shells, and deadly radio-dirigible torpedoes all alike disappeared ineffective in that redly murky veil of nothingness. And the fleet was being melted.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary