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Re: Index corr., Octant as dipmeter
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 19:26 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 19:26 -0500
Trevor, Thank you for your interesting explanation of the coast bombardment techniques. On my opinion, these are interesting non-electronic navigation techniques, so this is well within the scope of our list:-) (I am an artillerist by training, but of a different kind, of anti-aircraft artillery:-) I think Cel Nav has little to do with aiming guns. (Even in the most refined CelNav experiments, they achieved only 1/4 of a mile precision, which is not enough to hit a ship, unless you use nuclear munition). So I always thought that in the open sea gun battles they could aim their guns only visually, I mean in WWI and WWII. That is why the battleships had these enormous tall towers with hudge range-finders on the top. In a recent book on the history of Soviet Navy (early Cold War preriod), the following system of aiming ship-to-ship winged missiles was described. The missiles had range of few hundred miles. Several airplanes in the air between the ships formed a sort of "triangulation net", permanently determining their position with respect to each other, and one of them with respect to the enemy ship. These airplanes guided the missile by radio. Alex. On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > Ian Buxton's excellent technical history of the monitors ("Big Gun > Monitors", World Ship Society 1978) > contains some information on the