field of fire

Noun

Meaning

the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover effectively with gun fire from a given position

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All we know is that, sometimes, in our battles with the Russians, we had to remove the mounds of enemy corpses from before our trenches, in order to get a clear field of fire against fresh assaulting waves. Paul von Hindenburg

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