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F1 Major items, small arms, automatic gun, trench mortar, and field artillery sighting equipment, and fire control instruments; F2 Major items, harbor defense, railway, and antiaircraft artillery sighting equipment, and fire-control instruments; F3 Items not authorized for general issue; F4 Rule, slide, M1917 – Parts and equipment
The field of fire (also zone of fire, ZF [1]) of a weapon (or group of weapons) is the area around it that can easily and effectively be reached by projectiles from a given position. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term originally came from the field of fire in front of forts (and similar defensive positions), cleared so there was no shelter for an approaching ...
Coincidence rangefinders were important elements of fire control systems for long-range naval guns and land-based coastal artillery circa 1890–1960. They were also used in rangefinder cameras. A stereoscopic rangefinder looks similar, but has two eyepieces and uses a different principle, based on binocular vision. The two can normally be ...
Ideally, this dead space should be covered by the interlocking fields of fire of other nearby positions, and/or by pre-planned indirect fire such as mortars or other forms of artillery. In the case of antitank weapons, and especially short-range man-portable antitank rockets, defiladed positions behind a hill have several important advantages ...
The M252 81 mm medium weight mortar is a British-designed smooth bore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used for long-range indirect fire support to light infantry, air assault, and airborne units across the entire front of a battalion zone of influence.
Careful, controlled fire can be beneficial to south-central Indiana lands. ... Tickets range from $5 for the field tour only to $15 for an evening program with dinner and the field tour.
The M2 has an effective range of 1,830 metres (2,000 yd) and a maximum effective range of 2,000 metres (2,200 yd) when fired from the M3 tripod. In its ground-portable, crew-served role as the M2HB, the gun itself weighs 84 pounds (38 kg) and the assembled M3 tripod another 44 pounds (20 kg).
The Times estimate of losses, $22 billion in Palisades and $7.8 billion in Altadena, for homes rated by Cal Fire as destroyed or up to 50% damaged, represents only a fraction of the total cost of ...