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Show National Guardsmen Train to Improve Gunnery Techniques In keeping with the "Pentomic" concent of warfare a new sytem of communications has been de. vised by Capt. David A. Melville, Mel-ville, TNG officer of the 213th Field Artillery Battalion, National Nation-al Guard unit in southern Utah. The communication system as pictured here enables the fire direction di-rection center to control the artillery ar-tillery fire of - up to 10 firing units at the same time. This system sys-tem also enables the center to control the firing of artillery weapons up to the size of the Honest John Rocket. General fire direction system is based mainly on trigonometry. The men who operate the plotting plot-ting tables, plot each target on the charts and then replot each shell burst until the target is hit. In the computations many things are figured such as the direction of the wind, temperature, tempera-ture, density of the air, and the rotation of the earth. Once a set of corrections is determined, based on computations of the above information, it is possible to hit any target that can be located lo-cated by coordinate, with the first shell. It is a1 so possible to place the artillery firing of 1 to 20 artillery artil-lery battalions (about 200 artillery artil-lery weapons) on a target without with-out any warning to the ememy. The "Fire Direction Center" Is I one of the most compact and interdependent in-terdependent teamwork organizations organi-zations in the U. S. Army today. It has proved one of the most interesting phases of operation for members of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of the 213th locate! In Cedar City. Under the organization of the 213th Battalion there are three firing batteries. They Include the batteries at St. George, Fillmore and Richfield. Although each of these batteries has its own fire direction sections for emergency purposes, it becomes the prime responsibility of the Battalion fire dircerion center, a part of headquarters battery, to direct fire of these other units. |