| 单词 | curved fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurved fire 2. Gunnery. Designating artillery fire (or, in later use, the firing of torpedoes or other missiles) in which the angle of elevation is such that the curvature of the trajectory is great enough to require to be taken into account in ranging calculations. Esp. in curved fire. Cf. direct adj. 2c.The minimum angle of such fire has been variously specified: see quots. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing point and blank1590 false fire1602 potting1613 point-blank1614 running fire1629 pounding1633 bulleting1635 platooning1706 sharp-shot1725 street firing1727 ricochet1740 fire curtain1744 plunging fire1747 reverse fire1758 sniping1773 enfilade1796 rapid fire1800 line-firing1802 concentric1804 sharpshooting1806 rake1810 sniping fire1821 cross-firing1837 file-firing1837 curved fire1854 night firing1856 file-fire1857 volley-firing1859 cross-fire1860 joy-firing1864 snap-shooting1872 stringing1873 pot-shooting1874 indirect fire1879 sweeping1907 rapid1913 curtain of fire1916 ripple1939 ripple-firing1940 ripple fire1961 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 18 Apr. 1/5 The mortar can throw a bomb as heavy as itself, but to a short distance, for the curved fire of fortifications. 1860 R. Delafield Rep. Art of War in Europe 45 The branches connected with its flanks retired to the right and left down into the ravines, from which a curved artillery fire battered the approaches on the capital of the bastion. 1883 G. Mackinlay Text-bk. Gunnery 162 Indirect or curved fire. Fire from guns, with reduced charges, and from howitzers and mortars, at all angles of elevation not exceeding 15°. 1894 Minutes Proc. Royal Artillery Inst. 21 469 Ordnance in concealed positions can be reached by curved howitzer fire. 1907 O. M. Lissak Ordnance & Gunnery 358 Direct Fire is with high velocities, and angles of elevation not exceeding 20 degrees. Curved Fire is with low velocities, and angles of elevation not exceeding 30 degrees. 1917 W. H. Tschappat Ordnance & Gunnery 426 For convenience of discussion curved fire will be considered as firings with elevations between 15° and 40° and high-angle fire as firings with elevations above 40°. 1920 D. A. Macalister Field Gunnery (ed. 4) i. 19 Curved Fire.—Where the angle of elevation is not above 30°. 1942 Boys' Life Oct. 32/2 Stand by the port and starboard tubes. Set curved fire ahead. Port tube fires first. 1964 N.Y. Times 15 Mar. 25/1 Attempts to develop a weapon..that could provide high-angle curved fire (the grenade-launcher), aimed line-of-sight fire (the flechette), [etc.]. 2011 N. Friedman Naval Weapons of World War One ii. 342/2 Mk II was one of the first two US torpedoes designed for curved fire. < as lemmas |
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