Talk:Rangekeeper

Context
A very parochial article.

Naval gunnery was following the developments in coast artillery gunnery in the second half of the 19th century. Development of AA gunnery starting in WW1 was also rapid and involved tachymetric instruments, with some significant French developments.Nfe (talk) 05:21, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Development and Manufacture
I like the technical details on how these machines worked, but I'm missing information on the companies involved. The Picture caption says "Ford Mk 1 Ballistic Computer" Is this Heny Ford's Automobile Company, or another Ford? Are there any other companies or government agencies involved in its development? --BjKa (talk) 14:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Firing
I keep reading about "computing gunfire solutions", but how were the guns actually fired? I can see some pistol grips of the firing triggers in the FordMk1Rangekeeper.jpg. (I know them for what they are from my visit to USS New Jersey.) Was it usual for someone to hold a trigger in his hand or was it usual to have them "docked" at the console, as pictured, when actally firing? Did the machine fire the guns automatically at the correct moment? Or did the machine tell an operator when to pull the trigger? Or did an operator trigger a firing command and the machine then executed the command at a calculated moment? Or something totally different altogether? --BjKa (talk) 14:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Globalise
This page, is pretty much just a history of US range keeping, with a few honourable mentions for the british and the japanese getting pastings, what about the sophisticatec rangekeeping the germans had? Needs a globalise template, like this:


 * Agree, so reassessed B-2 criteria as "no". DPdH (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2018 (UTC)