It Systems & Softwares, Workstations & Peripherals Precision Casting, Forging And Machined Components Personal Protection, Medical And Survival Equipment Electrical And Power Supply Equipment, Subsystems And Components Fire Fighting, Protection And Insulating Equipment Propulsion, Transmission And Engine Room Equipment See the on-line Prior to about 1920, little use seems to have been made of spotting data, the guns being fired on the basis of direct sighting from the gun commander's position or plotting board calculations, corrected for non-standard conditions. Sufficient armour to protect from smaller shells and fragments from hits to other parts of the ship was the limit. However, because such elements are well known in the art, and because they do not facilitate a better understanding of the present invention, a discussion of such elements is not provided herein.According to an aspect of the present invention, an indirect fire control system and method is provided. As in most bureaucratic environments, institutional inertia and the revolutionary nature of the change required caused the major navies to move slow in adopting the technology.For a description of an Admiralty Fire Control Table in action: The degree of updating varied by country. Using a Once several positions had been plotted for the target (blue circles on Figure 1 at left), plotting board operators estimated the position of the target at the instant a salvo, fired by the battery, was expected to land.
The performance of the analog computer was impressive. In some cases, ships launched manned The reasons were for this slow deployment are complex. ); ENTITY STATUS OF PATENT OWNER: LARGE ENTITY The addition of During their long service life, rangekeepers were updated often as technology advanced, and by The use of director-controlled firing, together with the fire control computer, removed the control of the gun laying from the individual turrets to a central position; although individual gun mounts and multi-gun turrets would retain a local control option for use when battle damage limited director information transfer (these would be simpler versions called "turret tables" in the Royal Navy). Even if the system is unable to aim the weapon itself, for example the fixed cannon on an aircraft, it is able to give the operator cues on how to aim. Fire Control Basics. 60/525,109, filed Nov. 25, 2003, entitled Software Architecture Mortar Fire Control System, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference as if being set forth in its entirety herein.The inventions described herein may be manufactured, used and licensed by or for the U.S. Government for U.S. Government purposes.The present invention relates generally to indirect fire systems and methods.Indirect artillery fire systems, such as mortar systems, are known to be effective. For example The rangekeeper in this exercise maintained a firing solution that was accurate within a few hundred yards (or meters), which is within the range needed for an effective rocking For early background, see "Fire Control and Position Finding: Background" by Bolling W. Smith in Mark Berhow, Ed., "American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide," CDSG Press, McLean, VA, 2004, p. 257.For a complete description of fire control in the Coast Artillery, see "FM 4-15 Coast Artillery Field Manual-Seacoast Artillery Fire Control and Position Finding," U.S. War Department, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1940. In the U.S. Coast Artillery, the term fire control system was used to refer to the personnel, facilities, technology and procedures that were used to observe designated targets, estimate their positions, calculate firing data for guns directed to hit those targets, and assess the effectiveness of such fire, making corrections where necessary.
When the guns were on target they were centrally fired.Even with as much mechanization of the process, it still required a large human element; the Transmitting Station (the room that housed the Dreyer table) for HMS Directors were largely unprotected from enemy fire. The early versions of the High Angle Control System, or HACS, of Britain's Royal Navywere examples of a system that predicted based upon the assumption that target speed, direction, and altitude would remain constant during the … Typically, the cannon points straight ahead and the pilot must maneuver the aircraft so that it oriented correctly before firing. Accordingly, it is desirable to improve these forces' efficiency and effectiveness.An artillery fire control system including: a plurality of artillery systems, each artillery system including code for receiving a fire command, code for computing a ballistic solution corresponding to the received fire command, code for comparing the computed ballistic solution with the fire command, and code for readying the artillery system to fire only if the comparing indicates a substantial match; and, a fire direction system including: code for receiving a call for fire order from a command, code for selecting at least one of the plurality of artillery systems dependently upon at least one characteristic of the plurality of artillery systems, and code for issuing a fire command corresponding to the call for fire order to the selected at least one of the plurality of artillery systems.Understanding of the present invention will be facilitated by consideration of the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein like numerals refer to like parts and;It is to be understood that the figures and descriptions of the present invention have been simplified to illustrate elements that are relevant for a clear understanding of the present invention, while eliminating, for purposes of clarity, many other elements found in typical indirect fire systems and methods. FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS Self Propelled Howitzer Fire Control System is completely autonomous which provides the howitzers the capability for rapid positioning, deployment, accurate and fast ballistic computation, precise gun laying and integration to the modern artillery command and control systems.