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Figure 1: Rangekeeper Coordinate System. The coordinate system has the target as its origin. The y axis value range to the target. US Navy rangekeepers during World War II used a moving coordinate system based on the line of sight (LOS) between the ship firing its gun (known as the "own ship") and the target (known as the "target").
The IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) was a one-of-a-kind first-generation (vacuum tube) computer built by IBM for the United States Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. It went into service in December 1954 [ 1 ] and was likely the most powerful computer at the time. [ 2 ]
First proposed in the 1970s, [2] AIM was designed to maximize the efficiency of the curriculum development process through the use of computer-based automation tools. [3] Currently, over 300,000 hours of the Navy's instructional materials exist using the AIM system.
The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their use often creates or reinforces a sense of esprit and closeness ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
On Nov. 16, Navy gets Tulane, still undefeated in the American, and on Nov. 9, Army travels to North Texas (5-2, 2-1). For the two programs, Army and Navy, to meet in the conference title game ...
The Harvard Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator, [1] [2] [3] was an electromechanical computer built under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University, completed in 1947. It was financed by the United States Navy and used for ballistic calculations at Naval Proving Ground Dahlgren .
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