Shot board

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Shooting boards are tables that contain all the information - so-called shooting elements - that are required for practical shooting.

For the respective weapon, the associated firing board lists the firing properties of the available ammunition . The tables for guns and small arms differ significantly:

artillery

Since the guns usually have no direct line of sight to the target, the elevation and the direction must be calculated. Although nowadays this is carried out almost exclusively with computer-aided fire control computers , this calculation can also be done manually with a firing board.

The shooting elements include:

  • increase
  • Side shift
  • Angle of fall
  • Flight time
  • Information on accuracy and projectile impact

The values ​​of the firing board are determined for the greatest firing range of the gun concerned as well as at a medium and a short distance in good weather with high-quality ammunition practically on a test site. Values ​​for other firing ranges are approximated by interpolation .

Handguns

The ballistic data of handgun ammunition, usually prepared in tabular form, is also referred to as shot boards. These generally include:

  • Caliber designation
  • Bullet weight
  • Make
  • Airspeed V for the distances 0 m, 100 m and 200 m to the mouth
  • Projectile energy in joules (E) for E0, E100, E200,
  • the G ünstigste E inschieß- E ntfernung (GEE), the sight-in distance up to which the projectile trajectory than 4 cm above the line of sight, and
  • the deviation in centimeters between the line of sight and the point of impact at different shooting distances (+ = high shot, - = low shot).

literature

  • Regulation H.Dv. 119/111 - Firing panel light field cannon 18 - 1941