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Deliberate Fire

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deliberate fire [də′lib·rət ′fīr]
(ordnance)
Fire which is conducted at a rate intentionally less than the normal rate of fire for the purpose of applying adjustment corrections between each round or salvo, for tactical reasons, or for conserving ammunition.
Deliberate Fire 

a type of artillery fire used to keep a target (object) neutralized and exhaust the enemy.

Deliberate fire is conducted from artillery guns and mortars between concentrations of fire and independently. In deliberate fire there are a set number of shells (mines, cartridges) to be fired per weapon and a set rate of fire (intervals between shots), which is much slower than for concentration of fire.
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The blazes are among more than 100 deliberate fires in the town since August.
WHEELIE BINS FIRE WARNING by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
In the first two weeks of this month there were 12 nuisance fires - double that of the same period last year -and in September there were 20 deliberate fires almost trebling last year's figure of seven.
BID TO STOP ARSON; Action taken as fires on the rise by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Last year, Scotland's brigades dealt with around 2000 deliberate fires.
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