hostile fire


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Noun1.hostile fire - fire that injures or kills an enemy
firing, fire - the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
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The fire was now flaring about the ship's stern, whereon Achilles smote his two thighs and said to Patroclus, "Up, noble knight, for I see the glare of hostile fire at our fleet; up, lest they destroy our ships, and there be no way by which we may retreat.
The eCHR is evolved from RADA's compact hemispheric radar, or CHR, currently in use for active protection systems, or APS, and hostile fire detection, or HFD, solutions for combat vehicles.
The incident is under investigation but there are no indications the crash was caused by hostile fire. The person's name and further details related to the incident will be released by the pertinent national authorities, CENTCOM said.
The VFW Post 1337 is reserved for veterans who have received a campaign medal for overseas service; have served 30 consecutive or 60 nonconsecutive days in Korea; or have ever received hostile fire or imminent danger pay.
JEDDAH: A coalition jet fighter on a mission in Yemen was 'intercepted' by hostile fire but managed to return safe to base, the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting for the Legitimacy in Yemen said on Wednesday.
The AJK Council session also offered 'Fatiha' for the martyrs in IOK and those who have embraced shahadat as a result of constant hostile fire against civilians and armed personnel of Pakistan across the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir.
Hostile fire crashed through his windscreen as the patrol boarded his helicopter."
"The security spokesman of the Interior Ministry has stated that at nine o'clock in the evening of Thursday, one of its security patrols at Al-Dair in Jazan Region was exposed to hostile fire across the borders from Houthi elements.
" It said in a statement today, "the air strike, which was carried out by the international coalition within the sector of liberation of Nineveh operations, was based on information provided from the tribal mobilization, stating the existence of hostile fire from one of the houses in Karaib Jaber village, where the information check with its source, who confirmed the information, then , the air strike carried out on the specific target, according to the information ".
The company said the CIRCM system completes Northrop Grumman's full suite of electronic warfare protection systems, to include advanced missile warning, hostile fire indication, radar warning, radio frequency jamming, laser warning, IRCM jamming capabilities, and cockpit digitization.