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FM 6-40, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery (23 April 1996), Chapter 3 - Ballistics; Marine Corps Warfighting Publication No. 3-1.6.19 FM 23-91 , Mortar Gunnery (1 March 2000), Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Mortar Gunnery [5]
"Field Manual 3-22.91 – Mortar Fire Direction Procedures" (PDF). Department of the Army. 17 July 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2013 "Field Manual 23-91 – Mortar Gunnery" (PDF). Department of the Army. 1 March 2000; Mallet's Mortar, the largest British mortar ever made
The fire direction center (FDC) concept was developed at the Field Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, during the 1930s under the leadership of its Director of Gunnery, Carlos Brewer [4] and his instructors, who abandoned massing fire by a described terrain feature or grid coordinate reference. They introduced a firing chart, adopted the ...
M15: A part of the M35 field artillery fire-control system, which included the M1 gunnery officer console and M27 power supply. M16: A ballistics computer for M60A1 tanks. M18: FADAC (field artillery digital automatic computer), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] an all-transistorized general-purpose digital computer [ 3 ] manufactured by Amelco ( Teledyne Systems ...
A total of six 8-cm Mortars and 66 men in the platoon. The 12-cm Mortar Platoon was made up of a 17-man HQ and four six or seven-man Mortar Teams, each team armed with a single 12-cm Granatwerfer 42 mortar. A total of four 12-cm Mortars and 47 men in the platoon. A full-strength Heavy Weapons Company had 205 men in total, including three officers.
Thousands of similar munitions have been found in the area in the decades since it was a designated bombing and gunnery range by the U.S. Army Air Corps. A screen shot from an August 23, 2023 ...
The 81 mm mortar shells used an adapter collar to allow 60 mm mortar shell fuzes to fit. Originally packed in wooden crates, the late war shells (1944–1945) were packed in metal M140 canisters. The M140 canister carried live shells in a four-chambered internal divider, had a horsehair pad in the inside of the lid to cushion the fuzes, and had ...
Students who graduate this course will be able to request, control, and adjust mortar, field artillery, and naval gunfire support; provide targeting information for A-10, AC-130, and other close air support (CAS) aircraft, terminal guidance operations, initial terminal guidance operations, SOF gunship call for fire, close combat attack and ...