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?
Distribution of fire
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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.
Ulrich
These two sources are a good place to start for the US and RN systems
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/FIRE-CONTROL-PAGE.html
and
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/br224/index.htm
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/FIRE-CONTROL-PAGE.html
and
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/br224/index.htm
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Re: Distribution of fire
Hi Karl: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?
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