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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Former 13B field artillery guy, here. Basically it works like this…there’s 3 positions: the target, the ones looking at the target, and the ones shooting at the target. The ones looking at the target send the coordinates of the target to the ones shooting at it. The shooters adjust the artillery so it’s pointing at the given coordinates and target, and shoot. Target hit. But not always. The ones watching sometimes have to adjust right or left, in or out, and sometimes the shooters can F up the “translation” of the coordinates.

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