In order to cover a defilade near the Rao Quan River, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel and H & S Companies of 2 / 26 was immediately sent out to occupy Hill 558, with Echo Company 2 / 26 manning hill 861A.
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Artificial entrenchments can provide defilade by allowing troops to seek shelter behind a raised berm that increases the effective height of the ground, within an excavation that allows the troops to shelter below the surface of the ground or a combination of the two.
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By dawn it was clear that they had succeeded in penetrating the perimeter through a gap between the Australian platoons, and they began to engage them with machine-guns from a defilade position covered from fire by a steep dip in the ridgeline, and concealed by thick scrub.
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In modern armoured warfare, "'hull-down "'is a position taken up by an armoured fighting vehicle ( AFV ) such that its hull ( the main part of the vehicle ) is behind a crest or other raised ground, but its defilade ".
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It has inherited proven and successful solutions in design of the weapon and rockets from earlier Russian grenade launchers, and it can be used to engage and destroy battlefield targets from modern main battle tanks and armored personnel carriers to bunkers, military equipment and troops in defilade or in the open.
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Major Cushman hiked from San Diego to Battle of Guam, and the Legion of Merit with Combat V during the Battle of Iwo Jima, where two of his companies were nearly wiped out ( 10 survivors-3 from F Co, and 7 from E Co ) when they were trapped in a defilade later called " Cushman's Pocket .
