fire control

technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.

Origin of fire control

First recorded in 1885–90

fire-con·trol, adjective

Others were mounted aloft in the tops, just as they were in our own days until the tops were required for fire-control platforms.

The British Navy Book |Cyril Field
This glass is issued as a part of the fire-control equipment to field artillery.

Visual Signaling |Signal Corps United States Army
During all this turmoil the fire-control plane pilot had kept his machine at work.

Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines |Charles Amory Beach
Come on, now, with more of your special brand of death, fire-control officer!

The Last Shot |Frederick Palmer

The ugly, deep red fireball from the exploding wreckage was still growing as Clay slammed down on the fire-control panel.

Code Three |Rick Raphael

fire control

military the procedures by which weapons are brought to engage a target