Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: 16" Battleship gun info wanted Message-ID: <1991Apr6.020849.14082@amd.com> Date: 5 Apr 91 18:15:04 GMT References: <1991Apr4.041931.11567@amd.com> <1991Apr5.092149.8384@amd.com> Sender: military@amd.com Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 19 Approved: military@amd.com From: Irving Chidsey In article <1991Apr5.092149.8384@amd.com> jmc@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes: >If 25 miles is not the maximum range, then the elevation angle can >be higher or lower. It is not obvious to me which would be more >accurate. Against a target that was as tall as it was deep ( front to back ) the lower trajectory would be most accurate because it would be shorter. Against a point target, it would depend. The higher trajectory Might have a smaller ground footprint. Or, it might not. -- I do not have signature authority. I am not authorized to sign anything. I am not authorized to commit the BRL, the DA, the DOD, or the US Government to anything, not even by implication. They do not tell me what their policy is. They may not have one. Irving L. Chidsey