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On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:42:23 -0500, Wayne B
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:39:29 -0500, wrote:

The old coasie fire control systems (WWII surplus stuff) were not
really up to shooting down a high performance fighter but they were
plenty good enough to hit just about any surface target out to 15,000
yards or so.

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Even a target that's moving at 40 to 50 knots? We have a Furuno
tracking RADAR on our trawler that would be the envy of any WWII ship
but it has difficulty with targets moving that fast.

Don't confuse "search" radar with "Fire Control radar".
We could plot relative course and speed up to about 350 knots, then
you feed that into the computer to get the fuse time and the servos
aim the gun. The problem might be seeing it at all tho. Looking down
from the 05 deck still might not be high enough to separate a small
boat from the grass once it gets out there a ways. We did do pretty
well shooting at towed targets but they are a big radar reflector.

Don't confuse them with two dimensional and three dimensional radars.