suppressive fire

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   fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives

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Questions about suppressive fire

What does suppressive fire mean?

suppressive fire means "fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives".

Is suppressive fire a common word?

suppressive 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.