close supporting fire

1. 1.

   fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it

   Broadersupporting fire

Questions about close supporting fire

What does close supporting fire mean?

close supporting fire means "fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it".

Is close supporting fire a common word?

close supporting fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.