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Subject: Re: MBT main gun stabilization - how?
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Marcus Metzler wrote:
> Additionally the computer is able to add 'Vorhalt' (what's the English
> term ?) - when a target is moving, calculated through angle turn of the
> turret & distance (and calculating the own tanks movment into all this)
> but one needs to hold an additional button over some seconds until
> firing (many gunners forget this and unpress the button just before
> firing leading in a misfire).
I think the english term that you're looking for is "lead" (pronounced with
a long e as in leader, not a short e as in the material bullets are made of)
ISTR on the M1, the sight automaticly adds lead, but the gunner has to
turn it off when he's shooting an area target with the coaxial machine gun.
If he doesn't, the sight thinks that he's shooting a fast moving target
instead of trying to strafe over a large area, so it adds large amounts
of lead at long distances, and he would spray a much larger area with
bullets
than was intended.
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