Enfilade and defilade are concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire. In addition, enfilade fire's used to describe gunfire directed against an "enfiladed" formation or position. The words themselves come from French (enfiler - to skewer; défiler - to scroll). Enfilade fire's also commonly known in English as "flanking fire". Enfilade A formation or position's "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its longest axis. For instan… (More on Enfilade)