Accession Number:

AD0701865

Title:

The Probability of Hitting an Airplane as Dependent upon Errors in the Height Finder and the Director

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Kent, R. H.

Report Date:

1938-12-14

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

The purpose of this report is to make a study of the combined effects of the errors of the height finder and the director on the probability of hitting an airplane. In making this study the conditions most favorable to fire control are assumed the airplane is assumed to be moving at constant altitude with a constant speed and direction.

Descriptors:

• *ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNNERY
• *GUN DIRECTORS
• ACCURACY
• ANTIAIRCRAFT FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS
• ERRORS
• FRAGMENTATION
• INTERCEPTION PROBABILITIES
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• TARGET POSITION INDICATORS

Subject Categories:

• Fire Control and Bombing Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE