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calibration fire

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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.


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However, perhaps the most important fires were the calibration fires conducted during the early part of the extension.
 
 
 
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