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calibration fire

calibration fire

[′kal·ə‚brā·shən ‚fīr]
(ordnance)
Preparatory fire to determine the separate corrections to be applied to the individual guns or launchers of a battery in order to cause all the weapons to hit the same point, or bursts or impacts to assume a desired pattern.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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