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Old 12-04-17, 09:32 AM   #44
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The fire control should comprise also the target plotting and computing the necessary lead angle, because if you shoot f.e. at 15 to 20 kms the target will have moved consideably when the shell arrives there. I think that a specific station for the full fire control would be great, then having smaller simplied pannels that present the results in the fire director (This one with binoculars for observation, range finder and fire command) and the individual turrets.

Battelships worked very much like a submarine in that regard (Or rather the opposite lol) and there was a specific part of the crew in charge of being the brain of the ship's fire direction, plotting and calculating (Slide rulers or mechanical devices like the TDC in a submarine).

This is WW1 but the base is common, and the site is probably the most serious resource around:

http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tf...y:Fire_Control
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