"flareship" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From flare + ship.",
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          "ref": "1968 January, Lou Stalsworth, “Night Owl”, in The Airman, volume XII, number 1, page 10:",
          "text": "Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass.",
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          "ref": "1989 july, Sam McGowan, “Blind Bat”, in AIR FORCE Magazine, volume 72, page 82:",
          "text": "Originally, the phrase Blind Bat was just the call sign for C-130s on forward air controller/flareship duty over southern Laos.",
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          "text": "The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships.",
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        "A military aircraft that drops illumination flares."
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          "text": "The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships.",
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