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firing table

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firing table [′fīr·iŋ ‚tā·bəl]
(ordnance)
A table or chart giving data needed for firing a gun accurately on a target under standard conditions, and also the corrections that must be made for special conditions such as winds or variations of temperature.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Soviet equivalent to the graphic firing table, which allows for the rapid application of nonstandard conditions to firing data, is a weapon specific range arm used on the Soviet firing chart.
There will be fun games, target table tennis, two robots (the equivalent of a cricket bowling machine) firing table tennis balls for people to hit back and a funny bat competitions.
Although the Field Artillery's tactics of massing fires had not changed as the US Army entered World War II, the fire direction center (FDC) and graphical firing tables (GFTs) developed at the Field Artillery School in the 1930s along with organic Field Artillery aerial observation produced devastating concentrations of fire.
 
 
 
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