ship change of direction, and board firing. The rangekeeper also performed the required ballistics calculations associated with firing a gun. This article focuses on US Navy shipboard rangekeepers, but the basic principles of operation are applicable to all rangekeepers regardless of where they were deployed.

Function

A rangekeeper is defined as an analog fire control system that performed three functions:

* Target tracking
:The rangekeeper continuously computed the current

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