Crossfire

:This article is about the military tactic of crossfire. For alternate meanings, see Crossfire (disambiguation).

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A crossfire is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I.

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