WordNet
n. fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) [syn: concentrated fire]
Usage examples of "massed fire".
That was maximum range for the three-kilo bronze smoothbores the enemy used, and well within range for massed fire from Armory rifles.
Yet while those two dozen fighters and another thirty destroyed by Bug missiles were dying, the massed fire of starships and fighters destroyed another three hundred-plus gunboats.
Anyone who jumped out of a hole and started to run was cut apart by massed fire.
Half a dozen of his troopers rode with him, their massed fire tearing a hole in the Boman line, and then all of them dodged aside as the herd of stampeding civan thundered past them.
Two more volleys were punctuated by a cry of pain and several gleefully triumphant shouts, then the massed fire gave way to individual fire.
The leading enemy unit bellowed up the slope, met massed fire at point-blank range, exploded with a blinding detonation.
The massed fire was so accurate that barely a handful of gnolls escaped each time the archers fired on an enemy company.
If they approached from astern-their favourite attack technique-they would run into the simultaneous massed fire of seven ships .
Nothing can stop them aside from the massed fire of heavy weapons.
Their massed fire, however, no matter how wild, could not help but strike some of the defenders.
The Marines of the 13th FIST, seeking vengeance for their artillery, advanced in the middle and pinned down a regiment from the Third, held it in position and whittled it down until massed fire from the remaining artillery zeroed in on it and reduced the tanks to rubble.