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strafing

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who strafes. vb. (present participle of strafe English)

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Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons ranging from machine guns (5mm to 20mm) to autocannons or rotary cannons (typically 20mm to 37mm). This means that, although ...

Usage examples of strafing.

I oriented them to make strafing runs from the Tacan building toward the radar equipment where I figured the enemy troops were.

Air Group Twenty with simulated attacks on the little task group, bombing and strafing towed sleds, while aboard ship search and fire-control radars tracked the mock attackers, CIC vectored fighters out to meet them, guns followed their movements according to automatic signals received from the computers below, and the new captain, Cato D.

He approached each strafing run as an opportunity to stun or trank one of the sculpers long enough to harvest a trophy.

From this base they marauded southward, hitting the Frelimo garrisons and strafing and raiding the railway line between Beira on the coast and Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

Spacehawks seemed to come in an endless string, raking the forest on all around the firebase, even strafing the western slope of the ridge.

A strafing rain roosted in the skies overhead, tearing through the sievelike forest canopy as it had all that day.

The choppers swooped closer, strafing the crater where the cabin had stood.

As Drew rose, kneeling, aiming his Mauser, a second priest appeared in the doorway, flanking the first, clutching an Uzi, strafing the chapel.

Then they invited these recruits on actions: the assassination of a detective, the driveby strafing of a police station, the bombing of a city councilman's office.

Another loop and another strafing run racked up two more tanks and an armored truck.

Even as the next bomber straightened out on its strafing run, even as he flung himself backwards, Turner saw the mangled, bloody hand reach out for the trigger grip again.

Urging his men to follow him up to the center of the beach itself, he ordered them to bunch together and stand between one of the pair of black scars that had been left behind by the strafing jets.

Suddenly she was back, strafing the long and unarmed ranks upon the road while fragmentation grenades tumbled from her doors.

At the moment, however, his only concerns were the seven military hoverjets regrouping for another strafing run at the spot from which three other hoverjets had already been shot down in flame and smoke.

But then Agradeleous flew past, fiery breath strafing the confused Bearmen, immolating the central ranks and defeating the integrity of the formation.