whole
unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
enfilade
enfilade fire | gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation |
| in-fighting | boxing at close quarters |
| fire watching | (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
| fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
| close-quarter fighting | hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters |
| reconnaissance by fire | a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire |
fire
firing | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy, hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire |
| antiaircraft fire | firing at enemy aircraft |
barrage
barrage fire
battery bombardment
shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
| call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
| close supporting fire | fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it |
| cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
| deep supporting fire | fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications |
| direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
concentrated fire
massed fire | fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) |
| counterbattery fire | fire delivered to neutralize or destroy indirect fire weapon systems |
| countermortar fire | mortar fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons |
| counterpreparation fire | intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered |
| destruction fire | fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects |
| direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it |
| distributed fire | fire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target |
friendly fire
fratricide | fire that injures or kills an ally |
| hostile fire | fire that injures or kills an enemy |
| grazing fire | fire approximately parallel to the ground, the center of the cone of fire does rise above meter from the ground |
| harassing fire | fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale |
| indirect fire | fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons |
| interdiction fire | fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area |
| neutralization fire | fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable |
| observed fire | fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer, fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations |
| preparation fire | fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault |
| radar fire | gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar |
| registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets |
| scheduled fire | prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time |
| searching fire | fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun |
| supporting fire | fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat |
| suppressive fire | fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives |
| unobserved fire | fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed |
artillery fire
cannon fire | fire delivered by artillery |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
| mortar fire | artillery fire delivered by a mortar |
| zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
pyrolatry
fire-worship | the worship of fire |
| fire sale | a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire |
| fire sale | a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy |
fight fighting
combat scrap | the act of fighting, any contest or struggle, a fight broke out at the hockey game, there was fighting in the streets, the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap |
| in-fighting | conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) |
gamecock
fighting cock | a cock bred and trained for fighting |
European fire salamander
Salamandra salamandra | a kind of European salamander |