Strafing

Beaufighters strafing a Vorpostenboot, 1944
A German vehicle column destroyed by ground-attack aircraft close to Arnhem, 23 September 1944

Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such as fast boats, using smaller-caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slowly-moving targets.

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