field of fire

American  

noun

1. the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.

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field of fire British  

noun

1. the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover with fire from a given position

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Example Sentences

The gadget flooded his field of fire with invisible infra-red light.

From Time Magazine Archive

They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Grants had a serious fault: their main guns' limited field of fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each stubbed his well-polished boot when he stepped outside his own field of fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be better, if possible, to have the enemy in the open, or to have what is called a clear "field of fire."

From The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Swinton, Ernest Dunlop