Originally Posted by
dook
My colleague thinks it is similar to a device used to calculate the forward throw of a bomb, but since it was found in an old gun bunker it's probably an early form of analogue shell ballistics/ trajectory calculator.
Seems logical.
That's what I wondered, but I can't for the life of me work out what the scales mean (doesn't help that one scale is illegible) and how it'd be used.
Originally Posted by
FantomZorbin
MB It looks very similar to a Trajectory Table, I was on a course (FORTRAN) where a member was programming such a thing. Not being a Gunner it was all a bit 'over my head'.
Ditto... but don't get me on a nostalgia-fest about FORTRAN
MB