interlocking fire

The whole structure is a series of interlocking fire lanes, with concentric strong points until you reach the center.

They built 2,376 machine gun nests with interlocking fire.

"This will have the Posleen in a trap of interlocking fire.

Fighting positions were dug with full overhead cover and interlocking fires all around, as was the standard practice.

The Caliphate was dug in, deep, in bunkers with interlocking fire.

He'd detailed four of the teams to the forward slope of the hill, arrayed to create interlocking fire on the main approaches.

"All units lay down interlocking fire with your sharpshooters concentrating on the God Kings.

"Booby traps and energy guns," he replied absently, examining the intricate field of interlocking fire.

To minimize casualties and break the ambush, Charlie Company formed a circular perimeter with interlocking fire.

Enfilading fire was often directed down the enemy axis of advance, and interlocking fire from each leg across the 'V'.

The German stronghold, contained machine gun nests which produced deadly interlocking fire upon the Allied forces.

Tanks were destroyed by interlocking fire or were hoisted into the air on the spouting fireballs of buried mines".

With the interlocking fires of the exurbs and the city bastions, the forces might be able to break through the surrounding Posleen and start on the long route to safety.

Machine guns were emplaced with interlocking fire, the squad of engineers established a semi-circular defense, fields of fire were cut, and hasty field fortifications were built.

The foxhole had been built for interlocking fire, with a mound of earth in front of it and the firing slot angled out to the right at a forty-five degree angle.

The way to take out bunkers with interlocking fires is to have your troops get as close as they can get without getting killed then hit the bunkers with tank fire.

V-shaped, when the firing units are distant from the kill zone at the end where the enemy enters, so the firing units lay down bands of intersecting and interlocking fire.

There were tanks and fighting vehicles dug in on the hill but the division commander wanted a complete and thorough prepared defense with interlocking fire, bunkers, communications trenches and all the rest.

Though we were covered by interlocking fires from the rest of the battalion, my men sat there looking at me and then back where the rest of the battalion was wondering what was going on.

A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap.

A skillful enemy could saturate the gun's defen- sive screen by launching simultaneous attacks from several directions, but even then the interlocking fire of a full, properly-sited six-calliope battery should be able to hold out and keep the target it defended safe.

Wherever possible, they'd placed the rubble revetments where sunken lanes through the ruins would inevitably channel the heads of any invading columns into heavy interlocking fires, and the riflemen and spearmen manning those entrenchments took brutal advantage of their positions.

Initially formations were created in keeping with the pre-war Air Corps doctrine that massed bombers could attack and destroy targets in daylight without fighter escort, relying on interlocking fire from their defensive machine guns, almost exclusively the Browning M2 .50-calibre gun.