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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Five requirements for accurate predicted fire:
1) accurate target location and size
2) accurate firing unit location
3) accurate weapon and ammunition information
-muzzle velocity variation
-projectile weight
-propellant tempature
4) accurate meteorological data
5) accurate computation procedures
hundred feet?? bro, in exercises out to sea and on land, we hit stuff within 10 feet of our target, even vehicles on the move.. this isn’t the 1930s anymore, we have military grade gps that’s active and can navigate things at thousands of MPH… and this kind of tech is normal without our military, when you get to blackop type stuff i wouldn’t be surprised if we could shoot a bullet witih some navigation on it to hit extreme precision stuff from a mile out. no need to two person snipe teams any more.
If you want to be impressed look up the “one shot kills 6 men” cannon in the fortress of gawilghur in India.
It was black powder and dead reconing
The same way any other rifled firearm is accurate: Precisely measured propellants & projectiles, and a long barrel. The only difference is that with artillery, you’re not (usually) sighting the weapon directly at your target, you’re computing the parabola the shot will travel over to determine where it’s going to land.
In Vietnam my dad used radar and a handheld paper computer table to track mortar shells from the enemy and pen point return fire. Absolutely math
Like your five:
Son it’s like you are picking up a rock and throwing it at a tree.
Except for this time, the adults are turning your throw into numbers so they can hit that tree with that rock, every time.
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.
Math. Artillery is the answer to the question “ when will I ever use this in real life” that any math student asks himself/herself.
Excalibur shells, have fins that deploy after being fired to steer the shell in the air to target, has a 4 square meter targeting area on a moving target and 2 square meter on stationary, at maximum range, each shell hits exactly where it is wanted, and the way they do it is by feeding firing location + targeting location coordinates into a ballistics computer, and take the trajectory of the shell and upload it into the warhead, not sure how they get moving targets although they have absolutley demonstrated that they can do it.
Projectile motion physics indicate they will always land at the same spot if you ignore air resistance
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