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    Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...
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    A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist...
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    of radars List of military electronics of the United States Ship gun fire-control system Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.)...
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    The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during...
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  • applications see ship gun fire-control system. Moving land-based systems tend to require more specialized stabilization. Due to the need to fire while in motion...
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    The Mark 34 Gun Weapon System (GWS) is a component of the Aegis Combat System that is responsible for controlling and providing fire control to the 5" Mark...
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    The Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system (MGS) is a shipboard weapon system designed to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially...
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    Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.56 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-35 radar tracker and the Mark 42 ballistic computer. The directional...
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    the fire control system; it passes information to the computer that calculates range and elevation for the guns. Typically, positions on the ship measured...
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    Mark 63 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.63 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-34 radar tracker and the Mark 29 gun sight. They were usually...
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    In the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, the term fire control system was used to refer to the personnel, facilities, technology and procedures that were...
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    FCS-1 was a Japanese ship gun fire-control system (GFCS). In the 1950s, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) used Mk 57 and Mk 63 as its main...
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    other ships were often used as floating gun platforms expressly for this purpose. However, given the relatively primitive nature of the fire control computers...
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    either the Mk 86 Gun Fire Control System or the Mk 34 Gun Weapon System. Since before World War II, 5 inches (127 mm) has been the standard gun caliber for...
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    part of BAE Systems AB), designed in the late 1960s as a replacement design for the twin barreled Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60. The gun is remotely...
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  • Thumbnail for Mark 92 Guided Missile Fire Control System
    The Mark 92 Fire Control System is a US-built medium-range anti-aircraft missile and gun fire control system. It was developed for the FFG-7 Oliver Hazard...
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    Oerlikon Contraves) for mounting on ships. It is based on the 35/1000 revolver gun land-based air defense system and uses Advanced Hit Efficiency And...
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    Phalanx CIWS (redirect from Phalanx (gun))
    An entirely self-contained unit, the mounting houses the gun, an automated fire-control system and all other major components, enabling it to automatically...
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    dual purpose naval gun of World War II, especially as it was usually under the control of the advanced Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System which provided accurate...
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    up-to-date Mark 160 Fire Control System was used to guide the fire of the Iowa-class battleship Mark 7 guns. The Mark 7 gun was a built-up gun and was constructed...
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    and systems; operate and maintain combat and weapons direction systems, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, and gun fire control systems...
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    was a control system and was made possible by an effective data transmission network between an external gun director, a below decks fire control computer...
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    AK-176 (category Naval anti-aircraft guns)
    displacement ships and comprises the Gun Mount with a MR-123-02/76 Fire Control Radar System. It has high survivability owing to autonomous use of the gun mount...
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    multi-purpose 100 mm gun. The gun was designed to be effective for anti-aircraft defence, anti-ship combat, and shore bombardment fire support. The first...
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    of firing. The system was eventually replaced by the improved "Admiralty Fire Control Table" for ships built after 1927. By the 1950s gun turrets were increasingly...
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    early main battery fire control consisted of the Fire Control Tower, two Mark 38 Gun Fire Control Systems (GFCS), and fire control equipment located in...
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    conditions under which they are to be used." Ship gun fire-control system Coast Artillery fire control system Periscope Heliometer Stadiametric rangefinding...
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    radar, an AN/URN-25 TACAN system, along with several additional radars for navigation and fire control. All Wasp-class ships were built by Ingalls Shipbuilding...
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  • Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification...
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    batteries, or adjust the aim of guns by spotting shell splashes. Fire control towers came into general use in coastal defence systems in the late 19th century...
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