FM 4-111: Coast Artillery Field Manual Antiaircraft Artille

FM 4-111 Coast Artillery Field Manual Antiaircraft Artille

FM 4-111

Coast Artillery Field Manual Antiaircraft Artille

Army · FM · Jan 1940 · 63 pages

About

FM 4-111 COAST ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY POSITION FINDING AND CONTROL, ANTIAIRCRAFT SEARCHLIGHTS CHAPTER 1 GENERAL 1. ScoPE.-This manual treats of the position finding, control, and illumination phenomena pertaining to antiaircraft searchlights. A knowledge of the basic principles described in FM 4-110 and FM 4-112 will be helpful in understanding the problem of locating and illuminating aerial targets. Pertinent definitions and symbols should be studied, and a thorough understanding of the picture in space of the various elements of data should be acquired. The training of antiaircraft artillery searchlight units is covered in FM 4-115. * 2. ILLUMINATION PROBLEM.-From the description of fire control instruments contained in FM 4-110 it is evident that the success of the methods employed depends upon the actual tracking of the target by the various instruments.

DesignationFM 4-111

EditionJan 1940

StatusSuperseded

Pages63

FunctionAviation

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 4

TM 4-210Not in the Vault