sniper fire
Hidden shooter's attacks
Sniper fire is gunfire from a concealed shooter, typically at long range and targeting specific individuals rather than spraying bullets indiscriminately.
The term appears in military and conflict reporting: The convoy came under sniper fire.
It also surfaces in political contexts when someone claims to have faced danger: She said they landed under sniper fire, but video showed a calm tarmac ceremony.
- gunfireDischarge of weapons
- bulletsFirearm projectiles
- crosshairsIntersecting sighting lines
- scopeExtent or range
- line of sightDirect visual path, unobstructed
rifle · marksman · target · kill shot · rooftop · ambush · urban warfare · cover · ducking · hit the deck · incoming · whizzing · crack · suppression · hostile · combat · precision · kill
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- war violencemassacre, bombardment, bombing, shelling, combat
- attacksattack, assault, raid, strike, offensive
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- river warfareriver patrol, patrol boats, gunboats, PBR, brown water navy
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
sniper firebarrage
Sustained, overwhelming attack
suppressive fire · saturation bombing · artillery barrage · carpet bombing · spray and pray
sniper firefrontal assault
Attack from the front
charge · pitched battle · cavalry charge · hand-to-hand combat · infantry charge
sniper firehand-to-hand combat
Fighting without distance weapons
close-quarters combat · melee · knife fight · grappling · trench warfare
sniper, fire, snipe, snipers, sniping, sniped, fires, fired, firing