An U . S . First Army soldier manning an M1 81mm mortar listens for fire direction on a field phone during the German Ardennes offensive.
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The defending artillerymen and mortar crews fought in desperation, heightened by the loss of communications between most weapons and their fire direction centers ( FDC ).
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If the director was not located near the gun sections, a correction for parallax error could also be entered to produce even more accurate firing direction calculations.
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The fuze length reflects the range between the gun and its target, before digital computers this range was manually calculated in the command post or fire direction center.
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"The Big Heist " certainly won't be remembered as a legendary mob movie, but Robert Markowitz's rapid-fire direction and Sutherland's bug-eyed intensity certainly make it a fairly entertaining one.
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The "'Avibras Falc�o "'is a Brazilian unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) designed for reconnaissance missions, target acquisition, support for firing direction, damage assessment, and land and maritime surveillance.
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"Yes sir, it's not a nice thing, " said Hoover, 29, of Twin Falls, Idaho, the fire direction chief for an MLRS ( Multiple Rocket Launch System ) mobile launcher.
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Lowest, just above the compass bridge, was the torpedo director ( " Hassha shikisho " ), with the gunnery fire direction station ( " Shageki shikisho " ) next above.
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"' TACPOL "'( Tactical Procedure Oriented Language ) is a block structured programming language developed by the United States Army for the TACFIRE Tactical Fire Direction command and control application.
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Like any typical late-war FSB, most of Mary Ann's bunkers were made from converted metal shipping containers known as 155mm howitzers, the fire direction center and the artillery command post.
