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In ballistics, the elevation is the angle between the horizontal plane and the axial direction of the barrel of a gun, mortar or heavy artillery.Originally, elevation was a linear measure of how high the gunners had to physically lift the muzzle of a gun up from the gun carriage to compensate for projectile drop and hit targets at a certain distance.
A Guide to Modern Mortar Systems "Field Manual 3-22.90 – Mortars" (PDF). Department of the Army. December 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2013 "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
Harlingen AAF had a Waller Gunnery Trainer for firing at "planes projected on a screen", [1]: 26 and B-29 Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham, Harlingen, and Las Vegas included the "manipulation trainer". The manipulation trainer used 12 towers at heights of 10–40 feet (3.0–12.2 m) and arranged like a B-29 formation.
The Waller Gunnery Trainer was a simulator for training World War II aerial gunners using multiple film projectors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its inventor, Fred Waller , later invented the Cinerama film format. [ 3 ]
The course provides instruction in machine gunnery, mortar gunnery, anti-armor operations, Marine Corps leadership, Marine Corps planning process, law of land warfare, anti-terrorism and force protection, written communications, verbal communications, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and personnel administration, section and platoon leadership ...
Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece or turret, such as a gun, howitzer, or mortar, on land, at sea, or in air, against surface or aerial targets. It may be laying for either direct fire , where the gun is aimed directly at a target within the line-of-sight of the user, or by indirect fire , where the gun is not aimed directly ...
A video of a US test fire. The 20mm Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System (also called Centurion C-RAM) is a land-based variant of the U.S. Navy's Phalanx close-in weapon system, a radar-controlled rapid-fire gun for close-in protection of vessels from missiles. [1]
Precision gunnery and skills training; Tactical training; Live fire training; Urban operations training [3] Tactical training is the most complex of the categories because the entire session is recorded on a computer. When a soldier participates in a training session, he/she wears a vest with small loudspeakers, a radio antenna and built in GPS.