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http://www.militaryrifles.com/turkey/Plevna/ThePlevnaDelay.html
Bent Ramrod
10-04-2014, 02:26 PM
That was interesting! That trick of surveying the battlefield for distances for rifle fire in advance of the battle must have been a radical innovation in the art of warfare. Actually expecting your troops to hit something when they fired and incorporating it into the battle plan; Osman Pasha was a genius for daring to think like that.
I knew that snipers triangulated various target distances in WWI on the Western Front, but that was more or less after the fact.
Thanks for the link.
beagle
10-04-2014, 07:29 PM
Not too distant from the practice in our army of using aiming stakes in defensive positions for night emplacement of auto weapons./beagle
Scharfschuetze
10-04-2014, 11:15 PM
Go to two minutes on the slider on this Youtube video of "Zulu Dawn."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gF52K_qiP4
As mentioned above, the Army still surveys the battlefield with range cards. Crew served weapon's crews as well as snipers prepare a range card with ranges and bearing to significant terrain features as well as their final defensive fire azimuths. In this way they can quickly engage a target or engage area targets during low visibility or at night. They are often left for the replacing unit when the departing unit is relieved.
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