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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The magic just begins there: There’s a long history of artillery development that spawned all kinds of magic things from Wilkinson’s original equipment to bore better barrels, to various flavors of analog and digital computers to calculate the effect of many variables on the trajectory and accuracy of shells. Also the beginning of the understanding of compressibility phenomena and the speed of sound began with the problem of why adding more and more gunpowder to a cannon will only get you more range up to a certain point and no farther. Later efforts developed supersonic shells like the German 88, which in turn shed light on how to make other things supersonic like V-2 rockets and the American Bell X-1.
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