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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse Ah yes, the drop shorts.
Only an artillery man would ever think the nine mile snipers were that accurate.
There was a battery in Vietnam that loudly claimed that they were the most accurate in the entire Army. Any doubters were offered proof (and a sizable wager) of the battery's accuracy. A tree was selected as a target, and one gun fired a round at it. Invariably the battery got a direct hit, turning the tree into toothpicks, and collecting a sizable sum from the wagers. It took a long time for those thus robbed of their money to figure out that the tree had been wired with explosives beforehand and detonated by remote control, while the gun fired a blank charge.
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It does work. You pick a landmark like a mountain or a big hill and tell them to fire a round at that and you watch the fall of shot. Then you adjust fire down onto the target. Left 500m, right 200, add 300 and so on and then "fire for effect" and they lay down a barrage.
Maps aren't very good for accurate fire. You need an observer.
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It just happened in my country that some people have been taken to 'informative talks' (interrogations?) with the police because they own maps of the entire country in 1:25000 scale, on CDs.
These were scanned maps, and server that offered them publicly was also taken down. It was maintained by a bycicle organization.
It appears we have a law that says these maps are military secret because they can be used for calculating artilery attacks
Incredible. I also own a set of these maps on CDs, but so do thousands of other people and ofcourse, the military of all our neighbouring countries
I have to wander how can laws like this exist?
I am interested does anyone here from the former east bloc have simmilar situation in their country... to my knowledge, 1:25k maps are freely available in all western states.
hi ,
maybe those maps had something "special" on them or so , ....
anyway , if those are "illegal" they should also outlaw most GSM's , ......
It does work. You pick a landmark like a mountain or a big hill and tell them to fire a round at that and you watch the fall of shot. Then you adjust fire down onto the target. Left 500m, right 200, add 300 and so on and then "fire for effect" and they lay down a barrage.
Maps aren't very good for accurate fire. You need an observer.
Ever directed arty or mortar fire? I have. Without maps it wont work. The guns need to know where they are, where you are, and the target reference (even approximately) in order to calculate the firing solutions.
Sure, if you could both see a landmark they could take a crack at it and hopefully work their way back. In reality its unworkable without maps because it would take too long.
Ever directed arty or mortar fire? I have. Without maps it wont work. The guns need to know where they are, where you are, and the target reference (even approximately) in order to calculate the firing solutions.
Sure, if you could both see a landmark they could take a crack at it and hopefully work their way back. In reality its unworkable without maps because it would take too long.
hi ,
, not for a trained profeesional crew , .....
imagine a 105 , one for smoke , ( within visual range ) , mabe a second one , then , bang , six a minute with max spread , .....
Perhaps, but then again you could just buy an Ordnance Survey map for £5. They were originally intended for military use but have been freely available for over a century. Britain is the most mapped country on Earth, contour by contour.
The joke about British OS maps is what they don't show. RAF Fylingdales radar station is not shown on the OS maps but if you drive across the North York Moors from Pickering to Whitby you can't miss is, especially at night when it is lit up like a Christmas tree.
Presumably it is meant to be secret from UK peace protestors?
Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Do what? Do all the mapping, or allow it to be freely available?
Let the maps available for a nominal fee.
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Ever directed arty or mortar fire? I have. Without maps it wont work. The guns need to know where they are, where you are, and the target reference (even approximately) in order to calculate the firing solutions.
Sure, if you could both see a landmark they could take a crack at it and hopefully work their way back. In reality its unworkable without maps because it would take too long.
Funny, I was trained to do it. Also to call in artillery by "sound" of fall of shot - like for at night and in close country (jungle warfare).
Sure, its not ideal but you think people have nice maps all the time? Maps are often inaccurate too, even mil style grid maps. They can be out by quite a margin - though less so these days with satellites mapping and such. Also, you cna be worng about where exactly you are, which screws up any map based plotting, lol.
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