close supporting fire การใช้

• Unlike rockets, guns ( or howitzers as some armies still call them ) and mortars are suitable for delivering " close supporting fire ".
• To supplement the preliminary offshore bombardment and aerial assaults, some of the landing craft were equipped with artillery and anti-tank guns to provide close supporting fire.
• Through skillful use of close supporting fires from artillery, helicopter gunship and tactical air, the officers and the men of the Task Force repulsed human wave counterattacks and defeated a numerically superior enemy force, which left one hundred and eighty-two dead on the battlefield.