fire at will

English

Phrase

fire at will

1. (military) Fire when ready. A command that allows troops to use weapons at their discretion and choose their own targets, allowing the individual soldier a greater freedom of timing the shot with target movement and similar.
   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Rtas 'Vadum (Robert Davi), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

     All cruisers, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!

Usage notes

• In contrast, the plain command fire means to open fire at once.

Translations

military command

• Catalan: foc a discreció!
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由射擊！／自由射击！ (zìyóu shèjī!)

• Danish: ilden fri (da)
• Dutch: vuur naar believen!
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tuli vapaa!
• French: feu à volonté !
• German: Feuer frei! (de)
• Greek: πυρ κατά βούληση! (pyr katá voúlisi!)
• Italian: fuoco a volontà!
• Japanese: 発砲許可
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: آتش به اختیار! (âtaš be extiyâr!)
• Polish: strzelajcie bez rozkazu
• Portuguese: fogo à vontade!
• Romanian: foc de voie!
• Russian: огонь по готовности! (ogonʹ po gotovnosti!)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пуцај по вољи!

  Roman: pucaj po volji!

• Spanish: ¡fuego a discreción!
• Swedish: efterhand eld!