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Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
Volume 2: Fire Control
Appendix B — Extracts from the 8″/55 Range Table

Appendix B of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery, Volume 2: Fire Control (NavPers 10798-A, 1958 edition) presents extracts from the range table for the 8″/55 caliber naval gun, along with data on associated fire control equipment. The 8″/55 Mark 15 gun, mounted in triple turrets aboard the Baltimore- and Oregon City-class heavy cruisers, was among the most powerful cruiser weapons in the U.S. Navy during and after World War II. The range table extracts reproduced here — pages 437 through 464 of the volume — provide ballistic coefficients, range corrections, fuze settings, danger space, and deflection data essential to fire control computations. These tables were used in conjunction with the Mark 34 gun fire control system and the associated range-keeping computers to solve the surface gunnery problem at ranges up to approximately 30,000 yards.

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