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Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era. Norman Friedman

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• Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era
• Norman Friedman
• Page: 319
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781591145554
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, U.S. naval analyst Norman Friedman explains in this new book, finding a "firing solution" was a significant problem made all the more difficult when gun sizes increased and fighting ranges lengthened and seemingly minor issues like wind velocity had to be factored in. To speed up the process and eliminate human error, navies sought a reliable mechanical calculation. This heavily illustrated book outlines for the first time in layman's terms the complex ...

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