What does AF stand for?

Adjust Fire

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The way a soldier operates this is you basically find your target, then laze to it, which gives the range, then you get an adjusted aim point, adjust fire and pull the trigger," Fox News quoted deputy program manager Richard Audette as telling the Army News Service.

US Army testing gun that can take out ' bad guys' hiding around ...

Because Excalibur is accurate, he said, operators do not need to frequently adjust fire to hit a target.

Picatinny's GPS-guided Excalibur artillery round deemed 'amazingly ...

As this vanguard effort reports out, we will know that what we are teaching is on target, and if it is not, we--as we have demonstrated the responsiveness to do--will adjust fires.

President's forum

This will enable the force to link a target with a shooter in real-time, adjust fires allocations dynamically, and assess and reassess target status and damage while reducing the chances of fratricide or collateral damage.

NLOS cannon: meeting the demands of future combat

We attempted to initiate and adjust fire missions against targets of opportunity using UAVs as observation platforms and were unable to do so in a timely and accurate fashion.

The fight for Fallujah; TF 2-2 in FSE AAR: indirect fires in the ...

The battle continued throughout the day as 1/10's batteries bounded forward, firing a number of fire-for-effect (FFE) and adjust fire missions in support of infantry companies in contact.

Marine Artillery in the battle of An Nasiriyah

They couldn't adjust fires or acquire targets as well.

3d ID in OIF: fires for the distributed battlefield: Brigadier ...

Executing adjust fire missions actually minimized collateral damage.

101st Div Arty: fighting with artillery fires in an urban environment