Gun data computer - Wikipedia
The Battery Computer System (BCS) AN/GYK-29 was a computer used by the United States Army for computing artillery fire mission data. It replaced the FADAC and was small enough to fit into the HMMWV combat vehicle.
Fire-control system - Wikipedia
It was only later in World War II that electro-mechanical gun data computers, connected to coast defense radars, began to replace optical observation and manual plotting methods in controlling coast artillery. Even then, the manual methods were …
Mark I Fire Control Computer - Wikipedia
The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during World War II and up to 1991 and possibly later. It was originally developed by Hannibal C. Ford of the Ford Instrument Company [1] and William Newell.
THE COMPUTER AGE - artilleryhistory.org
The Field Artillery Computer Equipment (FACE) was first issued to batteries in 1969. It was only used in specially fitted vehicles (initially FV610 Saracen CP RA), FV432 and Landrover and comprised several components cabled together in its vehicle.
The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it …
2023年5月22日 · The FADAC was developed to be used in the field to compute artillery firing data. It was supposed to replace the manual process used at the time to set the guns. It even had the capacity to enter weather information collected by weather balloons.
ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution - United States Army
During World War II, a "computer" was a person who calculated artillery firing tables using a desk calculator. Six women "computers" were assigned to serve as ENIAC's original programming...
ENIAC - National Museum of the United States Army
Widely considered to be the first electric, digital, general-purpose computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was one of the most influential technological innovations of World War II.
The ENIAC Story - United States Army
The ENIAC led the computer field during the period 1949 through 1952 when it served as the main computation workhorse for the solution of the scientific problems of the Nation. It surpassed...
ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS
The machine is a stored-program, solid-state (no vacuum tubes), electronic digital computer to be used primarily for automatic computing and visual displaying of firing data (gun orders) for...
Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the …
2020年5月24日 · The USS Zumwalt, the latest destroyer now undergoing acceptance trials, comes with a new type of naval artillery: the Advanced Gun System (AGS). The automated AGS can fire 10 rocket-assisted,...
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