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Pursuit of Precision in the Field Artillery (Paperback)
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Artillery has gone through two previous evolutions in employment
methodology. The first, starting in 1670, saw it evolve from
primarily a siege engine, to a precision mobile direct fire support
platform. The second evolution in methodology began in 1865 and saw
the precision mobile direct fire support platform evolve into a
volume fire indirect fire support platform, which culminated in the
Russo-Japanese War. The thesis of this paper is that through a
historical examination of the evolution of the method of employment
during those two periods, this monograph proves that the arrival of
precision munitions heralds the onset of another evolutionary
employment method for the field artillery. This method will
emphasize precision fires over indirect volume fire. In order for
this evolution to occur, the field artillery community must avoid
the same type of evolutionary stagnation that occurred after the
American Civil War. Each evolution saw improvements, of varying
degrees, in four areas and Improvements in mobility, precision,
target discrimination and communications all interacted to a
varying degree to force change. These are used as the evaluation
criteria for each period. The author determined that when moving
from siege to direct fire, only improvements in mobility and
precision were needed to spark an evolutionary change in
employment. This was because target discrimination and
communications were facilitated by the weapons proximity to the
target. When the method of employment moved beyond the direct fire
mode to volume indirect fire, it took improvements in
communications and target discrimination to spark a new method of
employment. Technology has improved the volume indirect fire method
with weapon systems that are capable of self-location and
self-calculation of firing data. Precision guided munitions such as
the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System and the Excalibur
artillery round have effectively removed the errors that occur with
long-range weapon syste
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Imprint: |
Biblioscholar
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2012 |
First published: |
November 2012 |
Authors: |
Manuel R. Garcia
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
56 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-288-31242-9 |
Categories: |
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Education >
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LSN: |
1-288-31242-3 |
Barcode: |
9781288312429 |
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