Sentence examples for significant indirect fire from inspiring English sources

"We were having ceremonies and announcing it publicly and having a little formal process, but a couple of days before the base was to close, we would start to receive significant indirect fire attacks on the location," said Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the military in Iraq.

The weight of indirect fire available to the defenders had been significant and the whole of the 1st Commonwealth Divisional Artillery (80 guns) had also been engaged during the fighting, firing in support of both the Australians on Hill 121 and the US Marines on their left flank, defending Hill 111 and Boulder City.

We call this indirect fire (IDF).

"They were already surprised, but when we started throwing indirect fire at them, they just disappeared".

Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, 19, is killed by indirect fire while outside his base in southern Afghanistan.

Most of the deaths were said to have been caused by aircraft crashes or indirect fire.

Enemy attacks include direct and indirect fire, like mortar attacks, as well as roadside bomb strikes.

However, she said there was reports of "ineffective indirect fire in the vicinity of the base".

Afghan officers organized no indirect fire support whatsoever in the week of fighting.

"There is a political component behind indirect fire attacks," the American military commander in Baghdad, Brig.

"Direct fire" is listed as causing 4,766 civilian deaths – presumably direct coalition fire – and "indirect fire" a further 2,087, alongside a lot of enemy and insurrectionist deaths, incidentally.