• The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and anti-aircraft artillery applications...
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    system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon...
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    example, radar-derived target data and computer-controlled guns. Gun laying is a set of actions to align the axis of a gun barrel so that it points in the...
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    SCR-584), M10 gun director, and M4 Gun Data Computer that automatically laid the guns. The M6 Tractor was used as the prime mover. The M1 gun entered service...
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    The M9 Gun Director was an electronic director developed by Bell Labs during World War II. This computer continuously calculated trigonometric firing...
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    Gun data computer M16: mechanical gun data computer used on M60 M19: mechanical gun data computer used on M60A1 and its variants M21 solid state gun data...
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    electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct...
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    The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during...
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    often sat on top of nearby hills or ridge lines. Gun data computers were electro-mechanical computers were introduced into the Coast Artillery in the 1940s...
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    or strategic units to command. Computers: The computer systems and compatibility of computer systems. Also includes data processing. Intelligence: Includes...
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    functions were eventually handled fully by central electronic computers. The major components of a gun fire-control system are a human-controlled director, along...
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    electronic attack "jams" a weapons system with a literal jar of jam. In both Top Gun: Maverick and Behind Enemy Lines, characters utilize chaff and flares from...
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    A field gun is a field artillery piece. Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march, that when in combat...
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    Artillery (redirect from Artillery gun)
    first is guns with a high rate of fire. The second is the ability to use different sized propellant charges. Third is a fire control computer that has...
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  • instructions to the computer, such as a mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, image scanner, barcode reader, game controller, light pen, light gun, microphone and...
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    the gun-laying radar was fed to the M9 gun director, an electronic analogue computer to calculate the lead and elevation corrections for the guns. With...
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  • List of delayed blowback firearms List of grenade launchers List of machine guns List of multiple-barrel firearms List of pistols List of recoilless rifles...
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    Bell Labs M3 gun data computer, and M9 director, which could direct and lay the guns automatically, all the crews had to do was load the guns. The M3 was...
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  • considered suicidal as the bow and arrow/sword morphed into the rifle and machine gun. Second generation: tactics of linear fire and movement, with reliance on...
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    gun directors, gun data computers, and bomb sights used mechanical analog computers. In 1942 Helmut Hölzer built a fully electronic analog computer at...
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    the launch of the first dreadnought in 1905, or the use of the machine gun, aircraft, tank, or radio in World War I. In other senses, it is tied to...
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    the conversion of artillery parks from the muzzle-loading guns, to quicker breech-loading guns with recoiling barrels that allowed quicker aimed fire and...
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