Prepared by the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery, United States Naval Academy. Edited and produced by the Bureau of Naval Personnel, NavPers 10798-A. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. 1958 edition revised from the 1950 edition.
Contents
- Chapter 15 — Introduction to Fire Control
- A. Historical preface
- B. Modern fire control systems
- Chapter 16 — Radar and Optics
- A. Introduction
- B. Principles of radar
- C. Types of radar equipment
- D. Special purpose equipment
- E. Principles of optics
- F. Types of optical equipment
- G. Combat information center (CIC)
- Chapter 17 — Exterior Ballistics
- A. Forces affecting trajectories
- B. Range tables
- C. Practical application of range tables
- D. Target-practice post-firing analysis
- Chapter 18 — Spotting
- A. Laws of probability in their effect on gunfire and on spotting
- B. The spotter
- C. Methods of spotting
- Chapter 19 — Surface Fire Control Problem
- A. General
- B. Analytical solution
- C. Graphic range keeping
- D. Mechanical solution — general
- E. Basic mechanisms
- F. Mechanical solution — basic range keepers
- G. Mechanical solution — establishing the horizontal plane
- Chapter 20 — Main Battery Systems
- A. General
- B. A typical system
- C. Gun directors
- D. Fire control stations
- E. Main-battery plotting room
- F. Turret fire control equipment
- G. Main battery radar
- Chapter 21 — Battery Alignment
- A. Alignment of gun sights
- B. Train alignment in drydock
- C. Elevation alignment in drydock
- D. Battery alignment afloat
- E. Firing stop mechanisms
- Chapter 22 — Naval Gunfire Support
- A. General
- B. Naval gunfire support operations
- Chapter 23 — Aircraft Fire Control
- A. Introduction
- B. Aircraft gunnery
- C. Aircraft weapon systems
- D. Theory of horizontal bombing
- E. Other bombing problems
- F. Rocketry
- Chapter 24 — Antiaircraft Problem Analytical
- A. Target positioning
- B. Ballistic computations
- C. Gun positioning
- Chapter 25 — Linear-rate Antiaircraft Fire Control Systems
- A. General description
- B. Director
- C. Computer
- D. Mark 6 stable element
- Chapter 26 — Relative-rate Antiaircraft Systems
- A. Fire control problem
- B. Basic elements of lead-computing sights
- C. Gun sight Mark 15
- D. Gun Fire Control System Mark 63
- E. Gun Fire Control System Mark 56
- Chapter 27 — Torpedo Fire Control
- A. General
- B. Destroyer torpedo fire control problem
- C. Destroyer torpedo fire control system
- D. CIC’s function in the radar-aim torpedo attack
- Chapter 28 — Antisubmarine Warfare
- A. General
- B. QHBa scanning sonar equipment
- C. Controlling the attack
- D. OKA-1 sonar resolving equipment
- E. Depth-determining sonar equipment
- Chapter 29 — Missile Control and Guidance Systems
- A. Introduction
- B. Control systems
- C. Basic guidance systems
- Chapter 30 — Organization and Communications
- A. Battle organization
- B. Communications
- Chapter 31 — Junior Gunnery Officer
- A. Gunnery department
- B. Administrative duties
- C. Sources of information
- D. Gunnery exercises
- Appendix
- A. Safety precautions (see Volume 1)
- B. Extracts from 8″/55 range table (and associated equipment)
- C. Extracts from 5″/38 range table (and associated equipment)
- D. Natural trigonometric functions
- E. Fire control definitions
- F. Standard fire control symbols
- G. Bureau of Ordnance functions and controls