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To: BBQToadRibs
40 years ago, we fire direction center guys could manually, (artillery slide rule/chart) plot a 175mm, firing 10 miles downrange, to impact within 10 meters of target, taking all variables into account: weather/wind direction, earth rotation, round rotation, etc.

Nowadays with GPS I imagine much better accuracy.

Of course with nuke rounds, (which we never did fire during the Cold War, thankfully), impacting in one grid square was close enough.

11 posted on 07/25/2019 3:28:39 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: PROCON
Of course with nuke rounds, (which we never did fire during the Cold War, thankfully), impacting in one grid square was close enough.

The Soviets didn't think so. Their artillery planning included protocols for an entire corps to deliver their airtillery payload time-on-target into a single grid square, everything from company-level mortars to 200mm+ field arty' plus barrage rockets. No idea if they included their 152mm- nuclear rounds in that deliver, but I'd not be surprised if one or two was in the mix, just to be sure,

No wonder Ivan calls his artillery *God of Battle*....

А что такое современная война - интересный вопрос, чего она требует? Она требует массовой артиллерии. В современной войне артиллерия это бог... артиллерия решает судьбу войны, массовая артиллерия.

[And what is the modern war, it's an interesting question, what it requires? It requires massive artillery. In modern warfare, artillery is a god... Artillery, massive artillery decides the fate of the war.] --Josef Stalin (1940)

126 posted on 07/26/2019 11:13:09 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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