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- 3/21/2002 8:45:45 AM

Bernie

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Belisarius
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About the "flyswatter" style sight - isn't that pretty useless for anything but autocannons? [/B][/QUOTE]

Actually, it wasn't half bad, although as you surmised it was used mostly on auto cannons (in my case I used them on the Navy 3"-50cal twin mount at a theoretical rate of fire of 60 rpm, though the best human loaders I ever trained barely touched 25 rpm). For most work the 3"-50cal was linked to a radar fire control director though we did train in "local surface" and "local air" now and then. In "local air" the rings on the sight allowed pretty easy leading of an aircraft drone but, as you say, would be utterly useless for anything fast taking evasive action. In theory (this [I]used[/I] to be classified) we could track and hit a beercan sized target out to just over 6 miles. In practice I did witness one surface shoot where (under radar control) my mount took the antenna (I have pictures of this somewhere I think...) right off the bow of a radar controlled speedboat used as a target drone with an AP shell (we were [I]supposed[/I] to be shooting VT-Frag but wanted a tracer round to see how close we were getting) at a range of about 4 miles, causing it to go wild. Our next 6 rounds of VT-Frag obliterated it. Just for an idea of how accurate that first shot was, the speedboat was a 20' job doing about 50kts and weaving a bit. The antenna was shaped sort of like an hourglass and was about the size of a 5 gallon bucket. A lucky shot? Probably. But it [I]did[/I] earn us a gunnery "E" for that mount, and impressed the heck out of the rest of the crew. :)

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