Usually means: Launch missile, no further guidance.
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  1. fire-and-forget: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. fire-and-forget, fire-and-forget: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fire and forget: Wiktionary
  4. Fire-and-forget, Fire and forget: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (fire and forget)

noun:  (military) A kind of missile guidance system which does not require further control after launch, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target.
noun:  (programming, attributive) The practice of transmitting or raising something, such as an event, and then proceeding without checking for any result or response.
adjective:  Not requiring further control, feedback, or response after an initial action, launch, etc.

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