Thunderbolt (disambiguation)

Contents 1 Military 1.1 Aircraft 1.2 Naval vessels 1.3 Operations 1.4 Other 2 Technology 3 People 4 Places 5 Transportation 6 Films 7 Cartoons and comics 8 Video games 9 Fictional vehicles 10 Roller coasters 11 Symbols 12 Other uses 13 See also

A thunderbolt is a discharge of lightning accompanied by a loud thunderclap, or a symbolic representation thereof.

Thunderbolt may also refer to:

Military

Aircraft

• P-47 Thunderbolt, a United States Army Air Force fighter aircraft
• A-10 Thunderbolt II, an American ground support aircraft
• Mitsubishi J2M Raiden ("Thunderbolt"), a Japanese land-based fighter
• Saab 37 Viggen, also known as Thunderbolt, a Swedish fighter and attack aircraft

Naval vessels

• HMS Thunderbolt, four vessels of the Royal Navy
• USS Thunderbolt (PC-12), a US Navy patrol ship

Operations

• Operation Entebbe or Thunderbolt, the Israeli Defense Force rescue of civilian hostages held at Entebbe, Uganda
• Operation Thunderbolt, a Singapore Armed Forces hostage rescue operation
• Operation Thunderbolt (1951), a United Nations offensive during the Korean War

Other

• Thunderbolt, a test bed variant of the M8 Armored Gun System
• Thunderbolt-2000, a wheeled rocket launcher system used by the Republic of China (Taiwan) Army
• Legio XII Fulminata, a Roman legion which took its name and unit emblem from fulmen, Latin for Thunderbolt; formed and commanded by Julius Caesar
• The Thunderbolts, the former aerobatic demonstration team of the Indian Air Force
• Nickname of the 11th Armored Division (United States)

Technology

• Thunderbolt (interface), a high-speed data port from Intel originally code-named Light Peak
• Apple Thunderbolt Display, the successor to the Apple Cinema Display with a Thunderbolt interface
• HTC Thunderbolt, a cell phone
• Thunderbolt siren, a warning siren

People

• Captain Thunderbolt (1833-1870), an Australian bushranger
• Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł (1547-1603), a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and nobleman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Thunderbolt Gibbons (fl. 1820), an Irish leader of the secret Whiteboys agrarian organization
• Claude Patterson (born 1941), American professional wrestler under the name Thunderbolt Patterson

Places

• Thunderbolt, Georgia, an American town
• Thunderbolt Peak, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California
• Thunderbolt Wreck, a dive site based on the scuttled ship Major General Wallace F. Randolph

Transportation

• Thunderbolt, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive
• Thunderbolt (car), British land speed record car of the 1930s
• Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt, an experimental automobile built by the Ford Motor Company in 1964
• BSA Thunderbolt, a British motorcycle manufactured by BSA between 1964 and 1972

Films

• Thunderbolt (1910 film)
• The Thunderbolt, a 1912 short
• Thunderbolt (1929 film)
• Thunderbolt!, a 1947 film
• Thunderbolt (1995 film) (Pi li huo), starring Jackie Chan
• Quentin Tarantino's Thunderbolt, the fictitious "original title" of the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof

Cartoons and comics

• Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, Charlton Comics character and inspiration for the Ozymandias character in Watchmen
• Thunderbolts (comics), a Marvel comic book title
• Thunderbolt (Marvel Comics), two characters in the Marvel universe
• Thunderbolt Ross, perennial nemesis of the Hulk
• Thunderbolt, a genie who merges with the DC Comics character Johnny Thunder to create Johnny Thunderbolt
• Thunderbolt Jaxon, a Golden Age British superhero currently being revived in a Wildstorm comic series by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins

Video games

• Thunderbolt (website), a video games website
• Colonel Volgin, also known as "Thunderbolt", a character in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Thunderbolt, a Pokémon attack

Fictional vehicles

• Starfury Thunderbolt, a spacefighter from the Babylon 5 television series
• Thunderbolt heavy fighter (Warhammer 40,000), from the Warhammer 40,000 game universe
• VF-11 Thunderbolt, a fighter in the Macross storyline

Roller coasters

• Thunderbolt (Celebration City), at Celebration City in Branson, Missouri
• Thunderbolt (Coney Island), at Coney Island, New York
• Thunderbolt (Dreamworld), a defunct roller coaster at Dreamworld, Queensland, Australia
• Thunderbolt (Kennywood), at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
• Thunderbolt (Six Flags New England), at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts
• Viking Voyage, called Thunderbolt between 2003 and 2008

Symbols

• Wolfsangel, a runic symbol known as the "thunderbolt", used by Nazi Germany and others
• In heraldry, an emblem in the shape of a pair of wings emitting flames and lightnings

Other uses

• Windy City Thunderbolts, a Frontier League baseball team in Crestwood, Illinois
• Thunderbolt (Norwegian band)
• Thunderbolt: A Tribute to AC/DC, a 1998 tribute album
• Thunderbolt, a publication of the National States' Rights Party
• Lampropeltis getula, the eastern kingsnake

See also

• lightning bolt (disambiguation)
• Thunderclap (disambiguation)
• Thunder (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.