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Direct fire, in contrast, is the use of artillery to fire at targets that can be observed, aimed at, and corrected for by the crew itself. Throughout most of the history of indirect-fire artillery the aiming was done on the basis of pre-calculated firing tables, which took account of wind velocity in addition to the relative position of the enemy and allowed crews to aim their guns by means look-up tables rather than their own mathematical calculations. The creation of the tables was a labor-intensive task, usually performed by teams of non-combatant women known as "computers". When Digital Computer s were first invented their primary use was to automate the calculations for firing tables, and thus in the Anglophone World the machines came to be known as "computers" as well. SEE ALSO |
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