third eye
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Are you even serious? Covering fire is used only when you are trying to mount a breach into enemy lines during an exchange of fire, you do not initiate an exchange of fire during an incursion just so you can get covering fire. There is no way you are military. I think I will ask @third eye to shed some light on what Indian Army manuals on basic infantry tactics have to say about this matter.
What you are saying would amount to Pakistan bombarding Indian positions in Ladakh when they were infiltrating into Kargil just because they get to use a fancy word called covering fire, it would have no strategic utility. The same principle extends to the LoC, why would I want to fire at Indian positions and announce that something is up when the very porous and densely forested area can allow me to easily infiltrate unannounced?
Manuals the world over suggest infiltration is best done in conditions of stealth - using of terrain & poor visibility ( fog / rain) as aids.
Along the LC we have examples of use of speculative fire, engagement on a wide front and use of feints to serve the purpose when the weather gods do not help.
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