fire control system

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   naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target

   Broadernaval weaponry

   military

Questions about fire control system

What does fire control system mean?

fire control system means "naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target".

Is fire control system a common word?

fire control system 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.