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To: Mariner
The computer does it, or it doesn’t get done.

Not 40 years ago.

We had the FADAC, (field artillery digital automatic computer), which a good FDCer could beat in deriving firing data, and we often fired off of manually derived firing data.

18 posted on 07/25/2019 3:33:14 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: PROCON

I read somewhere that FA is teaching manual fire control again so that the batteries can operate even if an electronic attack takes out the computers.


20 posted on 07/25/2019 3:37:01 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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