land torpedo

== English == === Noun === land torpedo (plural land torpedos or land torpedoes) (obsolete) Synonym of land mine. [19th c.] (obsolete) An improvised weapon, an automobile or caterpillar tractor with a bomb attached, meant to be aimed and released and to travel unguided; the on-land counterpart of a contemporary submarine's torpedo, and also viewable as a forerunner of land drones (UGVs). [First World War]