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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
firepower \firepower\ n.
(military) The relative capacity for delivering weapons fire on a target; as, the battleship has more firepower than a cruiser.
[figurative] A measure of the resources available to a group which allows them to achieve their objectives; capacity for action.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 the capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target 2 the ability to deliver fire 3 (context sports English) the ability to shoot and score goals.
WordNet
n. (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target
Wikipedia
Firepower is the military capability to direct force at an enemy. (It is not to be confused with the concept of rate of fire, which describes cycling of the firing mechanism in a weapon system.) Firepower involves the whole range of potential weapons. The concept is generally taught as one of the three key principles of modern warfare wherein the enemy forces are destroyed or have their will to fight negated by sufficient and preferably overwhelming use of force as a result of combat operations.
Through the ages firepower has come to mean offensive power applied from a distance, thus involving ranged weapons as opposed to one-on-one close-quarters combat. Firepower is thus something employed to keep enemy forces at a range where they can be defeated in detail or sapped of the will to continue. In the field of naval artillery, the weight of a broadside was long used as a figure of merit of a warship's firepower.
Firepower (also known as Multi-Ball Firepower) is a 1980 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams. The machine had a production run of 17,410 machines.
The machine was originally supposed to have two sets of 3 drop targets. For economical reasons these were changed to stand up targets. Some Firepower owners have modified their machines to drop-targets.
Firepower is a military concept rooted in the ability to direct a heavy weight of metal onto the enemy or enemy possession.
Fire power or Firepower may also refer to:
- Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, a 2009 boxing event
- Firepower (film), a 1979 film starring Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach and Victor Mature
- Firepower (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Firepower (pinball), a 1980 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams
- Fire Power (video game), a tank action game for the Amiga and DOS
- Firepower (computer game), an expansion pack for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
- Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, a military museum in Woolwich, London, England
- Chrysler Firepower, a Dodge Viper-based concept car produced under the Chrysler brand
- "FirePower", a song by Raven from their 1982 album Wiped Out
- Firepower International, an Australian fuel pill company
- "Fire Power", a song by American electronic artist Wolfgang Gartner from his 2009 single "Fire Power/Latin Fever"
Firepower is a 1979 British thriller film directed by Michael Winner and starring Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson and Eli Wallach. It was the final film in the career of actor Victor Mature.
Firepower is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Firepower is a video game of the combat flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe. Firepower adds 18 new aircraft bringing the total of 36 military aircraft (or 56 with variants) to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe. Firepower also adds 50 new historical type missions, new ordnance and improved graphic effects to Microsoft's combat flight simulation.
The aircraft in Firepower include the B-17 Flying Fortress models F and G, B-29A Superfortress, Arado 234B Blitz, Dewoitine D.520 fighter, Dornier 217M medium bomber, Dornier 217N night fighter, He-162A Salamander, Me334, Me410A Schnellbomber, Me410B-2 R-3 zerstorer, Me410B-2 U-2 R-4 zerstorer, Me410B-2 U-4 zerstorer, P-40N Warhawk, Ta-154 Moskito, Ta-152C1 R31, Ta-152H-1, Ta-183 Huckebein (Raven) Interceptor, Avro Lancaster Mk III heavy bomber, Ho-229 V5 Supersonic Fighter / bomber, Avro Lancaster GS heavy bomber, and a B-24J Liberator.
What's interesting in Shockwave Production's add on to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe is the vast increase in the amount of available WWII military aircraft in the European Theater of Operations. Also there are 4(or 5 with a free patch) new bombers in which the player can man different aircrew positions.
It can be very interesting to use the bombsight to drop newly added ordnance onto a target like the Little Boy, Fat Man, German radiological dirty bombs or the Tallboy bomb. However some of these aircraft are hypothetical especially the German designs some of which never saw aerial combat during WWII. So is the German ordnance hypothetical as well. Another feature in this add on is that you can fly bombers in a formation, with FLAK effects when under enemy anti aircraft fire. Twenty-five missions of the Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress are included in this add on. One thing that's lacking though is a sophisticated simulation of the Norden Bombsight which B-17 Flying Fortress the Mighty 8th has a decent representation of albeit not fully emulating the Norden computer, it's gyrostabilizer and ancillary equipment. Instead the Bombsight in Firepower is fixed but it is functional. Even so, this is workable in the simulation add on with a fixed sight but it takes a lot of practice. Firepower is one of the most popular add ons to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3.
Usage examples of "firepower".
Star Destroyers to concentrate firepower on the remaining three smaller ships, while Cronus took the 13X and fourteen warships against the Calamarian Star Cruiser.
If the Dreadnaught retained any firepower, it would then be behind his line, forcing him to a two-front battle.
Peregrine is the next-fastest thing we have that packs significant firepower, besides the Jayhawk and the Ariel itself.
He expected to hear more big guns, the men adding to the firepower that was around him, throwing the deadly charges farther down the lines, farther into the rear.
From the day it was built it was capable of greater maneuverability, more extensive sensor range, and more precise firepower than had been thought possible for a warship, and since then it had been improved.
The speeder came at him, a saddle-shaped vehicle with no weapons in evidence, made to rely on quickness and maneuverability rather than firepower.
The creeps had them heavily outnumbered, but the Rebels had far superior firepower.
No one believes that the slime mold accomplishes this by means of supercomputing firepower.
He intended to keep his tanks tightly formed, not only to concentrate his firepower but to display his command.
Over three hundred rifles and machine guns, the combined firepower of Charlie and Alpha companies, and four terawatt lasers, belched coherent light and metallic lightning at the Posleen horde.
Superior tactics, training, firepower, and leadership still create important advantages even in city fighting.
The plane was intended for surveillance and interdiction, usually against endos, so its firepower was not great.
The hellions had shown that it would take heavy firepower to take down this mage, and the launcher was big bang.
Babylon outweighed Illyria and Lapithia together, and these three major powers about balanced the League as a whole, if not in wealth and firepower then in population and difficulty of conquest.
To hold against a determined attack would require the forward deployment of our battle-line, but this would place our slowest, most powerful, least expendable vessels far from retreat should the infidels muster sufficient firepower to break through in strength.