Barrage (artillery)
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title:
Barrage (artillery)
text:
In military usage, a barrage is massed sustained artillery fire (shelling) aimed at a series of points along a line. In addition to attacking any enemy in the kill zone, a barrage intends to suppress enemy movements and deny access across that line of barrage. The impact points along the line may be 20 to 30 yards apart, with the total line length of the barrage zone anything from a few hundred to several thousand yards long. Barrages can consist of multiple such lines, usually about 100 yards a
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Artillery tactic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_(artillery)
date created:
2007-10-25T22:16:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T18:41:37Z
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