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CharlesBHoff
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el paso texas
May 2002
time: 05:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Ghostbear
Sure they had computers. First mechanical, then primitive electrical. I believe the Iowa class BBs had fairly sophisticated fire control computers.
The proximity fuses you refer to were highly classified but used on bombs, then artillery shells (in the West).
In the Pacific, they were used much more extensively for AA since there was much less chance of the Japanese picking up a dud shell of the bottom of the ocean. |
The Sophisticated fire control computer got they data from radar I believe. If the Jap have one it would not help against fast moveing small wooden hull PT MotorBoat. As radar mightnot pick then up or pick then up put give misleading data to the computer. It still took than good gunner with than good eyes and a good mind to hit something fast and small back then.
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Kahn
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Rocky Horror Picture Show!
(An apt name for MoO3 come to think of it!)
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17-05-2003 00:43
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