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Description:: Orders the given unit to suppress the given position or target (without radio messages). The unit starts firing at the given position random amount of shots (to be determined) after which it stops. currentCommand shows "Suppress" and there is no way of stopping unit before it completes random amount of rounds. The position at which unit fires is fixed. When object is passed as position, the position is obtained via getPosWorld and could be different from PositionASL of the object.
Groups:: Uncategorised

Syntax:: unitName doSuppressiveFire target
Parameters:: unitName: Object
: target: Object or Array in format PositionASL. In case of Object, getPosWorld of the object is used
Return Value:: Nothing

See also:: suppressFor fire doFire commandFire canFire fireAtTarget forceWeaponFire commandArtilleryFire commandSuppressiveFire doArtilleryFire isManualFire

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Posted on October 8, 2016 - 16:19 (UTC)
Fett Li: Command expects position as second argument in format ASL in A3 1.64.138497.

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-| Orders the given unit to suppress a given position or target (without radio messages). The unit starts firing at the given position random amount of shots (to be determined) after which it stops. [[currentCommand]] shows <tt>"Suppress"</tt> and there is no way of stopping unit before it completes random amount of rounds. The position at which unit fires is fixed. When object is passed as position, the position is obtained via [[getPosWorld]] and could be different from [[PositionASL]] of the object. |DESCRIPTION=
+| Orders the given unit to suppress the given position or target (without radio messages). The unit starts firing at the given position random amount of shots (to be determined) after which it stops. [[currentCommand]] shows <tt>"Suppress"</tt> and there is no way of stopping unit before it completes random amount of rounds. The position at which unit fires is fixed. When object is passed as position, the position is obtained via [[getPosWorld]] and could be different from [[PositionASL]] of the object. |DESCRIPTION=
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