
Episode 11 - The Battles That Never Were
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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The Importance of Zeroing Weapons
There's a thing called tang rounds which required for what was it the The radio station to tell how far out right the plane or the perceived plane yes Radio back how far out they were It was up to the gun crews at that point to guess how far it would take them to get from point A to point B. And then they would time their shells with a specified tool to then put in the cannons the fire Right and you can imagine the time delay between those two and Actually, we have a pretty good guess of that because initial Inspector General reports stated that you had to fire 13,000 rounds to damage one aircraft,. Yeah, so and along with the time fuse there's also impact pieces
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