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strafe [strāf] (ordnance) To rake a body of troops or other persons with gunfire or rocket fire at close range and from a flying aircraft, or to attack a roadway, railyard, factory, or other installation with bullets, projectiles, or rockets fired from a low firing airplane. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Riders then find themselves in the middle of a scene, with revving cars being strafed from a low-flying helicopter until bullets trigger explosions in nearby fuel tanks, causing fireballs that send the two vehicles airborne toward the tram. As the commanding officer of VF-51 on Ticonderoga (CVA 14), his flight of F-8s strafed three Vietnamese P-4 patrol boats that attacked Maddox (DD 731) on 2 August 1964, leaving one of the P-4s dead in water and on fire. Whereas Israeli military forces strafed, napalmed, and torpedoed the USS Liberty at will with only token resistance from the Liberty machine guns and; |
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