Re: by submarine?



"Dave Welsh" <dwelsh46@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Putting sensors for a bombardment capable GFCS high up where they can be
effective is not trivial at all.


When we would do NGFS, we would only use the radar to establish our
postion. (We'd do this by either tracking a prominant shore feature, or
tracking a "beacon" laid on shore.) Sometimes, we wouldn't use the radar at
all, but just establish our position by "dead reckoning."

This was in the late 80's, early 90's. We didn't have GPS.

Now, with GPS, it should be possible to maintain the ship's position
accurately, without having to rely on such things. The only "sensors" one
would need would be a two-way radio (to talk to the forward-observer) and
some kind of GPS antenna. You're talking about fewer antennae than are on
some cop cars.

Once you've established you're own ships position, the rest is just keying
in grid numbers of targets, observer-target lines, and spots. We would
usually watch our fall of shot on our camera, but that was pretty much for
entertainment purposes only.

-- Kirk




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