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A US Army M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzer performing direct fire, 2013
Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece or turret, such as a gun, howitzer, or mortar, on land, in air, or at sea, against surface or aerial targets. It may be laying for direct fire, where the gun is aimed similarly to a rifle, or indirect fire, where firing data is calculated and applied to the sights. The term includes automated aiming using, for example, radar-derived target data and computer-controlled guns.
Gunlaying may be for direct fire, where the layer sees the target, or indirect fire, where the target may not be visible from the gun. Gunlaying has...
both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. It was the first such gun to combine a gunlaying radar, analog computer (director) and an autoloader on a single...
unsuitable for gun-laying applications, it did show the way for future systems. An operating feature, however, rendered Zenit unsuitable for gunlaying for attacking...
settings. Equipment that requires laying before it can be used accurately includes: theodolites guns and howitzers in indirect fire (gunlaying) v t e...
autonomous gunlaying in the DANA, the gunner of howitzer uses a ZZ-73 panoramic telescope with a PG1-M-D collimator for indirect gunlaying. This sight...
might be fitted to several different aircraft types. Some models included gun-laying radar that could lead the target and compensate for bullet drop. As almost...
effective. The FN-121 was the Automatic GunLaying Turret (AGLT), an FN-120 fitted with Village Inn gun-laying radar. Aircraft fitted with Village Inn...
aircraft. When cued by the SCR-584 centimetric gun-laying radar and used in concert with anti-aircraft guns firing shells with proximity fuzes, it helped...
microwave-related fields. Among their notable products were the SCR-584, the finest gun-laying radar of the war, and the SCR-720, an airborne interception radar that...
computers became available. In World War 2 this method was used to design Gunlaying control systems. It is still used now, but not always referred to by name...
defence and fortification Seacoast defense in the United States Gunlaying Disappearing gun Anti-ship ballistic missile Chung, Ong Chit (2011). Operation...
Swiss-designed L47 155 mm gun with an increased firing range of up to 36 km. It features an inertial navigation system coupled with a new gun-laying system, along...
Home Low AMES Type 7 GL Mk. I radar, gunlaying radar for anti-aircraft batteries GL Mk. III radar, gunlaying radar for anti-aircraft batteries Aircraft...
operation (OZ) utilizes electro-optical sights on the gun mounts, this allows the direct laying of the guns by their crews; this mode of operation limits the...
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