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Double-tap strike

Bombing the same location a second time

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
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Source-derived summary

A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a military strike with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack. A triple tap refers to an additional third strike which follows the second strike. The term is usually associated with instances where emergency responders and medical personnel rushing to the site hit by the first strike are hit by the second strike. A quadruple tap refers to a sequence of four strikes, where three subsequent waves follow an initial attack in the same location to target those who gather at the site.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 109-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Double-tap, strike and Bombing can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Double-tap strike” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.