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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A bunch of complete and excellent answers here. The only thing left for me to add is that, even after all of the above, there is still sometimes a game of darts to play.
You know in the movies you hear people say things like “fire for effect”. They say that because its a movie and it sounds cool. duh.
Ok, really though, its something different from firing for adjustments.
Basically, the spotter is like “hey I see a bunch of trucks and stuff. Lets blow it up. Gimme… about 10 rounds of High explosive. That should do it.”
But first… shoot one round and I’ll make adjustments”
Then the arty guy is like “ok. 1 round. shot it. Should hit in 30 seconds…. ok hitting in 10 seconds look for it”
BOOM
Spotter watches, and then calls back the adjustment “ok uhhh go left 6 0 meters and add 1 0 meters distance”
shoots again
“ok that was too far left, come back right 3 0 meters”
shoots again
“Ok. That got it, FIRE FOR EFFECT” = we’re on. We’re done adjusting onto the target. Now go ahead and shoot that batch of 10 to cause destructive effects on the target. Let’s mess them up.”
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