Thunderbolt (disambiguation)

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, town directly adjacent to east Savannah, Georgia
• 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 publication of the National States' Rights Party
• Lampropeltis getula, the eastern kingsnake

See also

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