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To: BBQToadRibs
That’s just an insane “reach out and touch someone.”

Well, maybe to an infantryman with a rifle. Some guys with 16-inchers throw a projectile the size of a Volkswagon something like 52 miles:

I wonder what accuracy is at that range with so many variables on that length/arc of a flight

We once worked out a 15-mile firing exercise for the U.S.S. New Jersey at 15 miles at right around a minute of angle. Of course their FDC [thankfully , not the ANGLICO guy calling for fire] has to take into account the Coriolis effect, as well as the Eötvös effect caused by the rotation of the Earth on it's axis, the projectile's leaving the denser atmosphere, the Earth continuing to rotate [hopefully!] and the projectile reentering *normal* artillery conditions. Winds, of course, can be blowing in any direction, or not at all, at different altitudes of the projectile's journey.

Even a relatively dumb ol' tank gunner knows that main gun rounds fired to the east always fly a little higher, and those fired to the west always impact just a tad low. On the Way! [Y'all call it *Shot, out!*]

128 posted on 07/26/2019 11:33:25 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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To: archy
We once worked out a 15-mile firing exercise for the U.S.S. New Jersey at 15 miles at right around a minute of angle...

IIRC, HMS Warspite managed to hit the Italian battleship Julius Caesar at a range of 28,500 yards (~15 miles?), which might still be a record, for naval artillery "fired in anger" at a moving target. The British 15" 42 caliber guns were an older design than the American 16"/50s used in the Iowa class, but the Brits apparently knew how to use them (or got lucky ;^)...

134 posted on 07/26/2019 12:52:59 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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