strafing

thumb|A-10 Thunderbolt-II 30mm GAU-8 cannon conducting a strafing run against suspected Taliban machine-gun crew, footage captured by overhead U.S military-operated reconnaissance drone, Afghanistan thumb|A German vehicle column destroyed by ground-attack aircraft close to [[Arnhem, 23 September 1944]]

Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such as fast boats, using smaller-caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slowly-moving targets.