Cutlass (disambiguation)
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"Cutlass" is the name for:
- Cutlasses are a type of sword.
- the cutlassfishes, a famikly of tropical fish.
- a car built by Oldsmobile.
- a submarine of the US Navy: The USS Cutlass (SS-478) was built during World War II and later used by the Republic of China (on Taiwan). It was named after the fish.
- a nickname for the U.S. Navy's Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist pin.
- a type of light civilian single-engined aircraft: the Cessna Cutlass.
- a type of carrier-based aircraft flown by the US Navy: the Vought F7U Cutlass.
The acronym CUTLASS stands for the Co-operative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System, a research facility using radar to study the ionosphere. See the CUTLASS home page.