Plunging fire
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Plunging fire is a form of indirect fire, where gunfire is fired at a trajectory to make it fall on its target from above. It is normal at the high trajectories used to attain long range, and can be u
Plunging fire on a warship: the steeper angle of fire allows the shell to hit the thinner deck armor
Top-attack
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A top attack weapon is designed to attack armored vehicles from above, to take advantage of the fact that the armour is usually thinnest on the top of an armoured vehicle. The device may be delivered
Plunging fire
…fitted with a C2A2 Support Weapons Sight - similar to a mortar sight. In this role the MAG 58 can fire a beaten zone up to a range 3,000 m (1.9 mi). Top-attack Ballistic coefficient…
Ukrainian army soldiers fire the NLAW in training.
An Australian Army soldier carrying two FGM-148 Javelins at the Besmaya Range Complex in Iraq, October 2016
An M41 tripod-mounted TOW ITAS-FTL with PADS (a variant of the BGM-71 TOW) of the U.S. Army in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, May 2009