NOUN
- fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives
How To Use suppressive fire In A Sentence
- Door gunners also provide suppressive fire when inserting or extracting troops from hot landing zones.
- Cover is of high importance to achieve tactical advantages. Suppressive fire will button the enemy and they hardly will shoot back or have any chance to retreat without high casualties.
- If buildings are being bombarded by suppressive fire, they destruct flowingly like a real building would.
- Behind her was another sleek figure laying down suppressive fire with an MA5 Assault Rifle.
- A five officer assault rifle squad performed what is called suppressive fire at Ronald. The Seattle Times
- In the close battle, armoured forces and artillery are likely to remain extremely useful in applying suppressive fire to support troops in action.
- The phrases 'standard infantry tactics', 'suppressive fire' and 'the enemy' can be heard. Times, Sunday Times
- And they slowly, painfully, retaught themselves the importance of combined arms and the tight integration of suppressive fire with movement.
