Defilade used in a sentence

Defilade in a sentence as a noun

The procedure is; measure the target, then use cross marks on the cross hairs to raise the gun tube to the appropriate level, manually guess lead and defilade, fire, on the way. It obviously takes practice to get good at.

They are effective even with enemy in defilade. Rifles are cumbersome, give their position away and have recoil.

Suppressing fire is used to keep the enemy’s head down and to reduce their volume of fire even from defilade so that you can move shoot and communicate. Obviously it is preferable to **** your enemy but you can’t always see them.