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artillery survey

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artillery survey [är′til·ə·rē ′sər‚vā]
(ordnance)
The process of determining, with sufficient exactness, the relative horizontal and vertical locations of the pieces and targets so that they may be plotted on the firing chart, and of providing accurate data for the pieces.


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Up until now, gunners have used GPS mainly for artillery survey purposes.
Common survey is the final component of common grid and is primarily provided by our artillery survey sections using the position and azimuth determining system (PADS), conventional means or, in the case of the Marine Corps, differential GPS equipment.
Despite restricted circumstances, the 1st and 2nd Medium Brigades with 60-pdr guns and 6-inch howitzers were raised in 1925, mechanisation made some progress from 1928, and an anti-aircraft battery and two artillery survey companies established.
 
 
 
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