direct supporting fire

1. 1.

   fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole)

   Broadersupporting fire

Questions about direct supporting fire

What does direct supporting fire mean?

direct supporting fire means "fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole)".

Is direct supporting fire a common word?

direct 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.