What is the difference between Direct Fire and Indirect Fire ?

Answer 1

It depends on your point of view.

If you are the recipient not a lot of difference.

If you are the shooter Direct Fire is good and Indirect Fire is bad luck.

If your a neutral observer they are both messy.

If your a terrorist Direct Fire is bad. BUT Indirect Fire is good a propaganda opportunity especially if you managed to duck behind a child.

Answer 2

Indirect Fire

Answer 3

Direct fire is when you can see the target you are aiming at from your location. Indirect fire is when you can't. Mortars and artillery for example are usually indirect. They are capable of being just as accurate particularly with modern weapon systems. But as has been said already, if you are the target, it hardly makes a difference.

Answer 4

Boy, did this one generate a lot of wrong answers?!
The difference is a matter of trajectory.
Direct fire is almost self-explanatory. Suppose you're in a tank. You see an enemy tank. You point your cannon at it and shoot.
Indirect fire is a bit different. If you are shooting a mortar or howitzer, your round will go high in the air, make a big loop, and come back down. That big loop means you can hit things behind the next hill, or dug into a trench, by dropping rounds into the position from a height, even though your weapon is not at that height.
Not a very technical explanation, but I think this'll give you the idea.

Answer 5

Indirect fire is the use of artillery to fire at targets out of the crew's line of sight, by firing in a high arc out to long distances and/or over blocking terrain. Usually an observer in closer proximity to the target reports the target's estimated position back to the crew or their headquarters, and the weapon is then fired at that point on the basis of mathematical calculations for the necessary horizontal and vertical angles and shell velocity. The observer then takes note of any error in the resulting fire, and if necessary requests adjustments relative to the impact point of the initial rounds, e.g. "right 400 add 2000", in units of distance understood by the army's conventions.

Direct fire, in contrast, is the use of artillery to fire at targets that can be observed, aimed at, and corrected for by the crew itself.

Throughout most of the history of indirect-fire artillery the aiming was done on the basis of pre-calculated firing tables, which took account of wind velocity in addition to the relative position of the enemy and allowed crews to aim their guns by means of look-up tables rather than their own mathematical calculations. The creation of the tables was a labor-intensive task. When digital computers were first invented one of their primary uses was to automate the calculations for firing tables, thus making accurate indirect fire an easier task.

Answer 6

Direct fire is when there is a line if sight between the weapon and the target. Indirect fire is when the target can not be seen from the weapon and it requires an observer to call down the fire.

Answer 7

it's all to do with line of sight when aiming at the target. also indirect fire is aimed at a general area - direct at a specific target.

pathfinder and martin b - you're talking shyt. think about artillery? meant for you but comes from a distance where you are not in line of sight. therefore indirect.

Answer 8

Direct Fire- Front line rifles and machine gunners
Indirect Fire- More like bazookas or mortar type things

I guess you could look at it like like Direct is aiming at a certain target while Indirect is firing in more of a vague area and not neccessarily at one direct person but at the lot of em.

Like a rifleman aims and shoots at one specific man, a mortman will fire the mortar at the basic area of the company, or platoon or whatever of the enemys men.

Answer 9

Direct fire is a target fired at by line of sight using a weapons scope or cross hairs.

Indirect fire is means that the target cannot be seen but is targeted using a map and fired at with artillery, mortars, or machine gun fire.

Answer 10

Direct fire: fire from a aimed shot, where as indirect fire is mortar fire, where they lob shots in the desired area hoping to cause damage.