high-angle fire

The gunners said that with skilled observers and good communications, high-angle fire - a skill taught at the Corps' advanced machine-gunner course - from Mark 19s could quickly be walked onto a target.

We continued to rely on their high-angle fire as we trained during the Cold War and during the global war on terrorism.

Rather than aiming through the sighting bar, the little auxiliary sights on the left side of the bar are used in high-angle fire.

A mortar's high-angle fire is easy to detect by enemy counterfire radar.

Its purpose was to provide offshore patrol boats with a comparatively lightweight direct and high-angle fire weapon capable of engaging both watercraft and targets ashore.