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Distribution of fire
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:56 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
How does the distribution of fire worked? As a matter of fact how someone flotaing on a warship at certain speed and course and looking thru a fire director can hit an object at another speed and direction?
No digital computers in WWI and WW2: all manual?
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:18 pm
by Matthias
They had electromechanical devices that we can call "computer" for the calculation of the fire data.
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:20 pm
by Ulrich Rudofsky
Paul Schmalenbach, 2nd and then 1st Gunnery Officer in the PRINZ EUGEN, and later director of the Bundesmarine's Federal Artillery Testing Facility, wrote a very comprehensive book on the subject and its historical evolution: "Die Geschichte der deutschen Schiffsartillerie", Koehler Verlag, 1993. Unfortunately, there is no English edition, but some of the diagrams are self-explanatory. I am sure there are equivalent English texts for the armchair admirals.
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:58 pm
by tommy303
Re: Distribution of fire
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:57 am
by marty1
Karl Heidenreich wrote:How does the distribution of fire worked? As a matter of fact how someone flotaing on a warship at certain speed and course and looking thru a fire director can hit an object at another speed and direction?
No digital computers in WWI and WW2: all manual?
Hi Karl:
If you have not already poked around "The Dreadnought Project" you should give it a look. Tony Lovell has done some amazing computer animated simulations showing RN methods of developing firing solutions using mechanical computers. WWI Dreadnought material.
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/
Best Regards
marty