Definition of "counterfire" []

• Fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Donovan saw more intense combat, but Truman had been a conscientious artillery captain, receiving commendations from his superiors and reacting coolly when German field guns and planes rained counterfire on the battery he commanded."
• "The soldiers responded at first with counterfire but then paused because of the "OGA dropping bombs," including three 500-pound explosives, according to an Army field report."
• "When Palestinian militants launch rocket attacks intentionally from within civilian Palestinian areas, using civilians as human shields as they intentionally target Israeli civilians, they are themselves responsible -- and no one else is -- for the civilian deaths caused by Israeli counterfire."