FM 6-120: Field Artillery Target Aquisition Battalion and Batteries

FM 6-120 Field Artillery Target Aquisition Battalion and Batteries

FM 6-120

Field Artillery Target Aquisition Battalion and Batteries

Army · FM · Oct 1967 · 48 pages

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1-5. Registration and Adjustment of Artillery Weapons Registration and adjustment of artillery can be conducted by flash, sound, and radar ranging techniques. Utilizing these techniques, artillery can be registered and adjusted during periods of reduced visibility, darkness, or other times when visual observation is not possible. Sound and radar should not be di- verted from their target location mission if other means of adjustment are available. 1-6. Provide Ballistic Meteorological (MET) Data The target acquisition battalion provides ballistic meteorological messages and sound locating meteorological messages to the artil- lery with the corps. The messages are dis- seminated to units for the correction of firing data and sound locations. 1-7.

DesignationFM 6-120

EditionOct 1967

StatusSuperseded

Pages48

FunctionFires

EchelonBattalion

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Editions 3

References 32

FM 32-5Not in the Vault
FM 21Not in the Vault
TM 5-231Not in the Vault