pincer attack

pincer attack

English

The successful pincer attack executed by the Red Army against German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Noun

pincer attack (plural pincer attacks)

1. (military) An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once.
   1. A set of simultaneous attacks against the flanks of an enemy salient in order to cut off and trap the enemy in an encirclement.

Translations

attack from multiple sides

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: кле́щи (bg) m pl (kléšti) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: sevření do kleští n Danish: knibtangsmanøvre c Dutch: tangbeweging (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pihtiliike French: mouvement en tenaille m Georgian: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Irish: gluaiseacht phionsúir f, pionsúrghluaiseacht f Japanese: 挟み撃ち (hasamiuchi), 挟撃 (kyōgeki) Korean: 협격(挾擊) (hyeopgyeok), 협공(挾攻) (hyeopgong) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Persian: حملهٔ گازانبری‎ (hamle-ye gâz-anbori) Polish: manewr okrążający m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: взять в клещи (vzjatʹ v klešči) Serbo-Croatian: obuhvatni napad m Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: movimiento de pinza m, movimiento de doble embolsamiento m Swedish: kniptångsmanöver c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can