FM 4-112: Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Gunnery, Fire Control and Position Finding, Automatic Weapons

FM 4-112 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Gunnery, Fire Control and Position Finding, Automatic Weapons

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FM 4-112

Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Gunnery, Fire Control and Position Finding, Automatic Weapons

Army · FM · Jan 1940 · 57 pages

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FM 4+112 COAST ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY GUNNERY, FIRE CONTROL, AND POSITION FINDING ANTIAIRCRAFT AUTOMATIC WEAPONS (The matter contained herein supersedes sections I, II, III, Iv, and V, and paragraphs 120, 121, and 122, chapter 2, part two, Coast Artillery Field Manual, volume II, February 1, 1933.) CHAPTER I GENERAL @ 1, Avromatic WEAPONS ProBLEM.—Antiaircraft automatic weapons have been designed and developed to attack aerial targets below altitudes that can be covered effectively by antiaircraft guns and to supplement the fire of guns within automatic weapon range. Such targets will usually be light, fast combat airplanes engaging ground troops or installations with fragmentation bombs, chemicals, or machine guns.

DesignationFM 4-112

EditionJan 1940

StatusSuperseded

Pages57

FunctionFires

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Editions 2

References 10

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