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Fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons
Answer for the clue "Fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons ", 11 letters:
counterfire
Word definitions for counterfire in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context military English) fire of weapons in response
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons
Usage examples of counterfire.
Beklites and Betaklites rushed the walls, the ladder-bearing Desandi among them, Itkovian gave the command for counterfire from the walls and block towers.
But there was no counterfire, and they advanced again to find that the men who had turned on the lights had kit their posts and retreated.
It was vulnerable to counterfire from rur-bolaser batteries, for example.
Simultaneously, lower-altitude intercept units and killsats will contest Jevlenese air space, with carrier-based tactical groups operating in selective ground-strike and counterfire roles.
Minervaists concluded a hasty alliance and opened counterfire with calculations of their own, which invoked the greenhouse effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide to show that a substantially higher temperature could have been sustained.