How is artillery so precise?

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Firing hundreds of KM in some cases, accurate within a few hundred feet? How is that possible? And how do they “dial in” new coordinates exactly? It all seems like magic to me

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In addition to all the maths that others have talked about, there’s also guided munitions.

M927 Excalibur, to be more precise. It’s a shell that uses fins to change its trajectory in the last bit of the path.

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