Up 250 right 100 fire.
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Hahahahahaha... nice try.
Sorry, my friend... but we never "adjusted" artillery rounds that way. We used increments of 100 yards or more in
even 100 yard increments (200, 400, 600, etc.). The only time we went to "50 yards" was in the final "add" or "drop" going into "Fire For Effect". The actual wording (following your range values) would be " Right 100", add 200."
Then if the base piece's (the base "gun's"),,, we only used the "base piece" (a single howitzer) to adjust the fall of the rounds we're adjusting to get on target... and only when the target was "bracketed" within 50 yards do we use
all the howitzers in the battery. So if the round hit beyond the target, but alignment was about correct, the next command would be "
Drop 100" in order to "bracket" the target with one round hitting over and one rounds hitting short, but within a 100 yards of the target.
At this point, unless the enemy was totally stupid, they'd be "bugging out" like crazy with an "over" and a "short" (of their position) just fired by an artillery piece... 'cause they'd KNOW what was coming next!!!
Then if that last round had hit short of the target, we have "bracketed" the target with a round "over" and a round "short" of the target and we were down to within 50 or less yards of the target since the previous round was over, and the last round was "short" by dropping only 100 yards.
And so, the final command to FDC (
Fire
Direction
Center) would be "Add five zero, battery 3 rounds, fuse five-one-four (a radio/timed fuse for air-bursts 50 meters in the air for use over enemy personnel or "soft targets"),
"Fire-for-effect!".
And if you were the Forward Observer for a 105mm howitzer battery, you'd get 3 rounds each from 6 howitzers or 18 air-bursting rounds over the target... and since the "kill-radius" on a 105mm round is about 50 yards, you most-likely would have "eliminated" a whole bunch of "targets".
Air-bursts from a 155mm round have a "kill radius" of 100 yards and with a air-burst 50 yards in the air, "battery 3 rounds" would only put 12 rounds on-the-target since a 155mm battery consists of only 4 guns, not 6 guns like the 105mm battery unit.
Incidentally, if the target was a T-34 (Russian-made tank the "gooks" used in Korea), a 155 H.E. (
High-
Explosive) round could knock the turret off a T-34 which tended to "ruin their WHOLE day" (
) ... whereas with a 105mm round, you needed to use a "H.E.A.T." round... "
High-
Explosive-
Anti -
Tank" pro-joe with a base fuse.
Wow... how's that for going back a lotta years??? I hope this didn't bore you...
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.