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tracks of the dragon
a history of Australian locating artillery
keith ayliffe & john posener |
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363 pp - hardback - Published 2005
Australia = AUD $45 (Postage Free) PNG and NZ = AUD $66 (Including air mail) nth america = AUD $76 (Including air mail) The World = AUD $90 (Including air mail)
As soon as artillery arrived on the battlefield, guns posed a threat to infantry and cavalry forces, as they cut swathes through men and horses alike. There was an urgent need for accurate counter-battery fire to neutralise enemy artillery and soon methods of locating their gun site gun sites were evolving. Flash Spotters of the Great War, who detected enemy guns by observing their flash or smoke signatures, would be astonished by the capabilities of a modern systems and satellite communications. Sound-ranging was then developed to detect enemy weapons and target acquisition was born. No longer was there a reliance on the human eye to locate enemy guns and mortars.
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