CAPTAIN INGALLS has succeeded in presenting within the limits of 128 pages, for the most part a very good and complete account of the various methods now in use for calculating range tables and ...

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During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army ...

The term “ballistic coefficient”(BC) is on everybody’s lips these days. It’s the driving force behind the latest wave of cartridge innovation , to the point where ammo manufacturers can hardly offer a ...

An analog calculator built in the 1930s by Vannevar Bush at MIT. Designed to solve differential equations, the Differential Analyzer was used in World War II to calculate ballistics tables that showed ...

Ballistic missiles are rocket-propelled weapons that follow a predetermined arched trajectory. They undergo three phases: the boost phase (launch), the mid-course phase (coasting in space), and the ...