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M18: FADAC (field artillery digital automatic computer), [1] [2] an all-transistorized general-purpose digital computer [3] manufactured by Amelco (Teledyne Systems, Inc.,) [4] and North American—Autonetics. [5] FADAC was first fielded during 1960, [6] [7] and was the first semiconductor-based digital electronics field-artillery computer.
AN/TPS-58 Moving-Target-Locating Radar (MTLR) is a vehicle-mounted radar set used by the United States Army for general surveillance and artillery burst detection. The AN/TPS-58 weighs 3,500 pounds and utilizes a truncated parabolic reflector (65 × 52 cm) antenna. [1]
A range table was a list of angles of elevation a particular artillery gun barrel needed to be set to, to strike a target at a particular distance with a projectile of a particular weight using a propellant cartridge of a particular weight.
In the US system for land-based field artillery, the field artillery team is organized to direct and control indirect artillery fire on the battlefield. Since World War I , to conduct indirect artillery fire, three distinct components have evolved in this organization: the forward observer (FO), the fire direction center (FDC), and the firing ...
Once calibrated upon the desired target or bracketed area, a call for "fire for effect" is made – requesting several batteries or the battalion to fire one or more rounds, with the goal of saturating the target area with shell fragments. In practice, first the Forward Observer (FO) establishes communication with the artillery unit. Then a ...
A counter-battery radar or weapon tracking radar is a radar system that detects artillery projectiles fired by one or more guns, howitzers, mortars or rocket launchers and, from their trajectories, locates the position on the ground of the weapon that fired it. [1]: 5–18 Such radars are a subclass of the wider class of target acquisition radars.
Field guns are one of two primary types of field artillery. Guns fire a heavy shell on a relatively level trajectory from a longer barrel, allowing for very high muzzle velocity and good range performance. Guns are most adequate for providing long-range fire support and counter-battery fire.
AN-TPQ 47, the US Army's latest Target Acquisition and Artillery Locating Radar. Target acquisition is the detection and identification of the location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of lethal and non-lethal means. The term is used for a broad area of applications. A "target" here is an entity or object ...