Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! - Artillery

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Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Don M <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com> wrote:

> But normal artillery survey techniques require fairly good maps of the
> area you're fighting over.  The point is that you have to know where
> you are and where the enemy is in order to do the math as to how to
> get a quantity of explosive from where you are to where the enemy is.
> The speed of modern techniques comes largely from computerizing this
> process rather than doing manual math or going off paper charts.  If
> you don't have a way to do this AT ALL, then you cannot conduct
> effective artillery fire AT ALL.
>
> One caveat, if you have ships in orbit, you have the ability to map
> the planet quite well I should think.
>

Counter-caveat(s) :

Clouds

Weather systems can be substantial. Mars maybe not so much. Earth, quite
a
bit, depending on location and season. Venus, total.

And/or other airborne particulant matter inherent to a given planet that
might interfere with other sensors/detectors.

Mk