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rafales

rafales is the plural of rafale.

Meaning of rafale

Noun

rafale (plural rafales)

  1. A short, intense burst of artillery fire from a number of weapons fired with the intention of overwhelming resistance or routing an attacking force.
    • […] a salvo is […] a succession of shots […] with the same elevation... a single shot for each piece. By a rafale is meant all the shots of a battery fired with the same elevation, without any determined order, at the rate of more than one shot per gun. According to circumstances, three different...1903, Andrew Hero Jr., “Opening & Conduct of Fire”, in Antiaircraft Journal, volume 20, page 47

Questions about rafales

What is rafales the plural of?
Rafales is the plural of rafale.

Words near rafales in the dictionary

  1. Rafa
  2. Rafael
  3. Rafael Palma
  4. Rafah
  5. rafale
  6. rafales
  7. Rafalivka
  8. rafampacin
  9. Rafanan
  10. Rafanans
  11. RAFBF

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