US NAVY
FIRE CONTROL PAGES
NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY
VOLUME 2 FIRE CONTROL
Prepaired by the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery
United States Naval Academy Edited and produced by the
Bureau of Naval Personnel
NavPers 10798-A
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D. C. Price $2.75
1958 edition revised from the 1950 edition
PREFACE, VOLUME 2
CONTENTS
Chapter 15 Introduction to Fire Control
A. Historical preface
B, Modern fire control systems
CHAPTER 16 RADAR AND OPTICS
A. Introduction
B. Principles of radar
C. Types of radar equipment
D. Special purpose equipments
E. Principles of optics
F. Types of optical equipment
G. Combat information center (CIC)
Chapter 17 Exterior ballistics
A. Forces Affecting Trajectories
B. Range Tables
C. Practical Application of Range Tables
D. Target-practice Post-firing Analysis
Chapter 18 Spotting
A. Laws of probability in their effect on gunfire and on spotting
B. The Spotter
C. Methods of spotting
Chapter 19 Surface fire control problem
A. General
B. Analytical solution
C. Graphic rangekeeping
D. Mechanical solution-general
E. Basic mechanisms
F. Mechanical solution-basic rangekeepers
G. Mechanical solution-establishing the horizontal plane
Chapter 20 Main battery systems
A. General
B. A typical system
C. Gun directors
D. Fire control stations
E. Main-battery plotting room
F. Turret fire control equipment
G. Main Battery radar
Chapter 21 Battery alignment
A. Alignment of gun sights
B. Train alignment in drydock
C. Elevation alignment in drydock
D. Battery alignment afloat
E. Firing stop mechanisms
Chapter 22 Naval gunfire support
A. General
B. Naval gunfire support operations
Chapter 23 Aircraft fire control
A. Introduction
B. Aircraft gunnery
C. Aircraft weapon systems
D. Theory of horizontal bombing
E. Other bombing problems
F. Rocketry
Chapter 24 Antiaircraft problem analytical
A. Target positioning
B. Ballistic computations
C. Gun positioning
Chapter 25 Linear-rate antiaircraft fire control systems
A. General description
B. Director
C. Computer
D. Mark 6 stable element
Chapter 26 Relative-rate Antiaircraft Systems
A. Fire Control Problem
B. Basic elements of lead-computing sights
C. Gun sight Mark 15
D. Gun Fire Control System Mark 63
E. Gun Fire Control System Mark 56
Chapter 27 Torpedo fire control
A. General
B. Destroyer torpedo fire control problem
C. Destroyer torpedo fire control system
D. CIC's function in the radar-aim torpedo attack
Chapter 28 Antisubmarine warfare
A. General
B. QHBa scanning sonar equipment
C. Controling the attack
D. OKA-1 Sonar resolving equipment
E. Depth-determining sonar equipment
Chapter 29 Missile control and guidance systems
A. Introduction
B. Control systems
C. Basic guidance systems
Chapter 30 Organization and communications
A. Battle organization
B. communications
Chapter 31 Junior gunnery officer
A. Gunnery department
B. Administrative duties
C. Sources of information
D. Gunnery exercises
Appendix
A. Safty precautions (See volume 1)
B. Extracts from 8"/55 range table (and associated equipment)
C. Extracts from 5"/38 range table (and associated equipment)
D. Natural trigonometric functions
E. FIRE CONTROL DEFINITIONS
F. STANDARD FIRE CONTROL SYMBOLS
G. Bureau of Ordnance functions and controls
Index