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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Early modern warfare
- Trench warfare
- "Caught in the crossfire"
- References
thumb|Depiction of crossfire
A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crossfire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.