What is "counterbattery fire"

Usage examples of "counterbattery fire".

Now, counterbattery fire from the walls had become desultory, the dwindling number of losses from gun crews mostly being the result of long-range sniping with big bore wall-mounted matchlock calivers, but there seemed a dearth of notable marksmen within the city, for hits were rare, though the inch-or-more-in-diameter balls were almost certain to be the death of anyone so unfortunate as to be caught in the path of one.

Desperate, because after hours under Torstensson's counterbattery fire, there was not much left of the Catholic artillery.

He had lost a third of his frames to the Royalist counterbattery fire, but there were enough for these two targets.

Marine artillery opened fire on schedule and was answered by counterbattery fire, not from the First Tank Brigade, but from the lead elements of the Third Armored Division.

The one company of the battalion that was on the boulevard quickly deployed to begin counterbattery fire.

JSN had run out of missiles and shells for counterbattery fire long since, putting well over half of the ANM's artillery out of action before his magazines had finally run dry.

Lizard counterbattery fire began coming in a couple of minutes later.

The guns were throwing shot and smoke toward the Colonist positions, but only in long-distance counterbattery fire.

Lizard artillery was busy, too, but mostly with counterbattery fire.