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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.
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.
F10 bore sight, (small arms, and field artillery) F11 Setter Fuze, Bracket, M1916, M1916A1, M1916A2; F12 Targets, testing (small arms and field artillery) – parts; F13 Gunners Quadrant, M1918. F14 Compass, lensatic, M1918 – Parts and equipment, 16 September 1927; F15 Machine gun clinometer M1917 Parts and equipment
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
The role of STA units is to locate, track, assess and where appropriate cue the attack for friendly artillery units. It provides commanders with surveillance and targeting information across the battle space and is always linked by a robust command-and-control (C2) system to offensive support (OS) systems.
Directors were introduced into field artillery in the early 20th century to orient the guns of an artillery battery in their zero line (or 'centre of arc'). Directors were an essential element in the introduction of indirect artillery fire. In US service these directors were called 'aiming circles'.
A plotting board was a mechanical device used by the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps as part of their fire control system to track the observed course of a target (typically a moving ship), project its future position, and derive the uncorrected data [note 1] on azimuth (or direction) and range needed to direct the fire of the guns of a battery to hit that target.