deep supporting fire

1. 1.

   fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications

   Broadersupporting fire

Questions about deep supporting fire

What does deep supporting fire mean?

deep supporting fire means "fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications".

Is deep supporting fire a common word?

deep 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.