RE: Battle blimps

At 10:02 PM +1000 4/18/02, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
>G'day,
>
>>  Don't think this is really true for WWII AA guns.
>
>I only had a chance for a cursory dig this evening, but "An Illustrated
Data
>Guide To World War II Maritime Attack Aircraft" notes that
>
>"a biplane of such low performance that it was difficult for both
monoplane
>fighters to fly slow enough to hold in their sights for more than a
fleeting
>moment and for anti-aircraft guns to track the type with sights
calibrated
>for use against faster warplanes"

Those automatic gun sites used some pretty fancy electro mechanical 
computers to compute firing angle for all of the lead indicator and 
range mechanisms on ships. Not something you can just add a software 
update to.
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