adjusting fire

  • 1Fire for effect — is a military term.According to NATO doctrine: * 1. Fire which is delivered after the mean point of impact or burst is within the desired distance of the target or adjusting/ranging point. * 2. Term in a call for fire to indicate the… …

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  • 2Indirect fire — means aiming and firing a projectile in a high trajectory without relying on a direct line of sight between the gun and its target, as in the case of direct fire. Aiming is performed by calculating azimuth and elevation angles, and may include… …

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  • 3Coast Artillery fire control system — A conceptual diagram of the flow of fire control data in the Coast Artillery (in 1940). The set forward point of the target was generated by using the plotting board (1). This position was then corrected for factors affecting range and azimuth… …

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  • 4Trial By Fire (The 4400 episode) — The 4400 episode Title = Trial By Fire Season = 1 Episode = 05 Airdate = August 1, 2004 Writer = Robert Hewitt Wolfe Director = Nick Gomez Prev = Becoming Next = White Light IMDb id = 0502808 Trial By Fire is an episode of the science fiction… …

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  • 5Public Insurance Adjusting — Public Insurance Adjusters help policy holders receive payment from insurance companies. Public adjusters represent s for a small percentage of the resulting settlement money from the insurance claim. What they doThese companies can inspect… …

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  • 6observed fire procedure — A standardized procedure for use in adjusting indirect fire on a target …

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  • 7ladder fire — noun : a method of adjusting artillery or mortar fire by firing in rapid succession three rounds with the same deflection but at different ranges …

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  • 8MOS 0331 — is the USMC infantry specialty for crew served machine guns. A machine gun team can utilize a medium machine gun (240G), a heavy machine gun (M2), or an automatic grenade laucher (MK 19). A machine gun crew is trained in the maintenance, first… …

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  • 9bracketing — A method of adjusting fire in which a bracket is established by obtaining an over and a short along the spotting line, and then successively splitting the bracket in half until a target hit or desired bracket is obtained …

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  • 10left (or right) — 1. Terms used to establish the relative position of a body of troops. The person using the terms “left” or “right” is assumed to be facing in the direction of the enemy regardless of whether the troops are advancing towards or withdrawing from… …

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