The Fuze Keeping Clock (FKC) was a simplified version of the Royal Navy's High Angle Control System analogue fire control computer. It first appeared as...
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HACS (section The Fuze Keeping Clock)
ships from such attacks. Destroyers did not use HACS, but rather the Fuze Keeping Clock (FKC), a simplified version of HACS. Starting in 1938 all new RN destroyers...
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Flotilla, built under the War Emergency Programme. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. Four ships, Verulam, Venus, Vigilant and...
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gun mounting. They were fitted with Denny Brown stabilisers and the Fuze Keeping Clock anti-aircraft fire control system. Three ships were built; HMS Auckland...
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Admiralty Fire Control Table (redirect from Admiralty Fire Control Clock)
control against surface targets. The High Angle Control System and Fuze Keeping Clock were used for gunnery control against aircraft. Director (military)...
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Table Arthur Pollen's Argo Clock Admiralty Fire Control Table – from 1920s HACS – A/A system from 1931 Fuze Keeping Clock – simplified HACS A/A system...
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a twin mounting forward and two singles aft. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. The quadruple mounting Mark VII for the...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Seaslug – retired Sea Viper Sea Wolf Unrotated projectile - retired Fuze Keeping Clock Gyro rate unit HACS Hazemeyer gun mount Pom-Pom director Ikara - retired...
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(HACS) for secondary armament AA fire while the Ceylon group used the Fuze Keeping Clock for AA fire control. Both groups used the Admiralty Fire Control Table...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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was known as the "3 man modified rangefinder". These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. The N class were ordered in 1940 as repeats...
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again, as the Mk.I "K tower" of the Z class. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. Despite its problems, the L and M class'...
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favourably on paper with many contemporaries. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. In the Q class, 'Y' gun could be removed...
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Flotilla, built under the War Emergency Programme. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. The W and Z-class destroyers were two classes...
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of King's College Folkestone Central railway station, in England Fuze Keeping Clock, a fire control computer This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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counter the poor riding qualities of the Js. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer. The O-class ships were built in two groups...
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taken over applications such as kitchen timers, alarm clocks, bank vault time locks, and time fuzes on munitions, from earlier mechanical balance wheel...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Type 285 for 4.7-inch gun control and a DCT controller, utilizing a Fuze Keeping Clock, for the 4-inch guns (working with the Type 285 radar). The radar...
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class were completed in time for wartime service. All ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock High Angle Fire Control Computer. The "Ca" flotilla were generally...
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with Fuze Setting Pedestals or Mk V Fuze Setting Trays, to allow the mountings to be fired against aircraft while being controlled by the Fuze Keeping Clock...
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4-inch guns which had superior anti-aircraft fire control via the Fuze Keeping Clock, while retaining excellent anti-submarine capability. They were designed...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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Control Clock. Anti-aircraft fire for the main guns was controlled by the Rangefinder/Director which sent data to the mechanical Fuze Keeping Clock. The...
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