What does "fire for effect" mean? regarding artillery?
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Fire which is delivered after the mean point of impact or burst is within the desired distance of the target or adjusting/ranging point. 2. Term in a call for fire to indicate the adjustment/ranging is satisfactory and fire for effect is desired.
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The term "shotgun approach" means doing something indiscriminately.  Instead of focused action (like a rifle shot), it's broad--quite possibly _overbroad_-action (like a shotgun blast).\n\nA literal example of this was how different U.S. Army units reacted to insurgencies in Vietnamese villages.  Some soldiers were very careful to investigate and find only the enemy guerillas.  Others said, only half-jokingly, "Kill them all and let God sort 'em out."  That was the shotgun approach to the insurgency problem.\n\nAn example outside of war would be a law designed to stop young adults from driving drunk.  A focused approach would be to criminalize high blood-alcohol levels while driving automobiles, and to ban booze-drinking behind the wheel.  A shotgun approach would be to ban anyone under the age of 25 from driving a car.
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you load up some hot loads and start shooting. Keep adjusting the elevation and windege till you can put them in the black.\nthen remember the load stats so you can do it again.
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IMPACT EXPLOSIVES\n\n     Impact explosives are often used as primers.  Of the ones discussed here, only mercury fulminate and nitroglycerine are real explosives; Ammonium triiodide crystals decompose upon impact, but they release little heat and no light.  Impact explosives are always treated with the greatest care, and even the stupidest anarchist never stores them near any high or low explosives.\nCARBIDE BOMB\n\nThis is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Exercise extreme caution.... Obtain some calcium\ncarbide. This is the stuff that is used in carbide lamps and can be found at\nnearly any hardware store.\n    Take a few pieces of this stuff (it looks like gravel) and put it in a\nglass jar with some water. Put a lid on tightly. The carbide will react with\nthe water to produce acetylene carbonate which is similar to the gas used in\ncutting torches.\n    Eventually the glass with explode from internal pressure. If you leave a\nburning rag nearby, you will get a nice fireball!\nSMOKE BOMBS\n\n     One type of pyrotechnic device that might be employed by a terrorist in\nmany way would be a smoke bomb.  Such a device could conceal the getaway\nroute, or cause a diversion, or simply provide cover.  Such a device, were it\nto produce enough smoke that smelled bad enough, could force the evacuation of\na building, for example.  Smoke bombs are not difficult to make.  Although the\nmilitary smoke bombs employ powdered white phosphorus or titanium compounds,\nsuch materials are usually unavailable to even the most well-equipped\nterrorist. Instead, he/she would have to make the smoke bomb for themselves.\n\n     Most homemade smoke bombs usually employ some type of base powder, such as\nblack powder or pyrodex, to support combustion.  The base material will burn\nwell, and provide heat to cause the other materials in the device to burn, but\nnot completely or cleanly.  Table sugar, mixed with sulfur and a base material,\nproduces large amounts of smoke.  Sawdust, especially if it has a small amount\nof oil in it, and a base powder works well also.  Other excellent smoke\ningredients are small pieces of rubber, finely ground plastics, and many\nchemical mixtures.  The material in road flares can be mixed with sugar and\nsulfur and a base powder produces much smoke.  Most of the fuel-oxodizer\nmixtures, if the ratio is not correct, produce much smoke when added to a base\npowder.  The list of possibilities goes on and on.  The trick to a successful\nsmoke bomb also lies in the container used.  A plastic cylinder works well, and\ncontributes to the smoke produced.  The hole in the smoke bomb where the fuse\nenters must be large enough to allow the material to burn without causing an\nexplosion.  This is another plus for plastic containers, since they will melt\nand burn when the smoke material ignites, producing an opening large enough to\nprevent an explosion.\n\nSIMPLE SMOKE/STINK BOMB \n\n       Simple smoke/stink bomb- you can purchaase sulphur at a drugstore under\nthe name flowers of sulphur.  now when sulphur burns it will give off a very\nstrong odor and plenty of smoke.  now all you need is a fuse from a\nfirecracker, a tin can, and the sulphur.  fill the can with sulphur(pack very\nlightly), put aluninum foil over the top of the can, poke a small hole into\nthe foil, insert the wick, and light it and get out of the room if you value\nyour lungs.  you can find many uses for this (or at least i hope so).\n\n\nSIMPLE SMOKE BOMB\n\nNeeded :\n\n Sugar\n\n Epson Salts\n\n 1.)  Mix the ingredients, 3 parts sugar, 6 parts epson salts.\n\n 2.)  Put the mixture in a tin container and heat it with a lighter.\n\n 3.)  When it has turned into a gel, put a fuse in it (a match will do).\n\n 4.)  Let the gel harden.\n\n\n5.13        SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE...\n\n  The following reaction should produce a fair amount of smoke.  Since this\n reaction is not all that dangerous you can use larger amounts if necessary\n\n 6 pt. ZINC POWDER\n 1 pt. SULFUR POWDER\n
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In what way mate? Your question doesn't really make any sense, please give us some more details. Cheers.\n\nQuick response to some of the others down below, taking a half step then banging the right foot in behind the left and shooting the left forward again is called  "change step" used to change the whole squads step or when you are out of step to quickly correct this for yourself, seen lots of regiments do a daft shuffle and that takes a couple of tries to get right. A change step is the British Army's way of correcting step.
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castal artillery? Or coastal artillery?\n\nNever heard of castal artillery but field artillery is the portable guns deployed in support of infantry, usually up to 155mm in caliber, they can be called up to break up attacks, fire smoke to mark positions and provide cover, or soften up defensive positions before an attack. Field Artillery can be towed or self propelled
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I'm pretty sure a rocket-propelled grenade is not a shape charge(it's just a grenade mounted on a rocket-hence the name). I don't know what the temperature is, but it's gotta be high enough to melt most heavy metals.
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I answered this question 2 months ago, see link under sources:\n\n\n"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. \nThe British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."\n\nA forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course, often going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term. It was eventually shorted to just "fore."\n\nA popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead.\n\nSo when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."\n\nThis is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.
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Ok, ready for the infantry Marine's answer?  Both are a terrible experience that'll make you see how much of your body you can fit in your helmet.  Given the choice, I'd much rather be in a firefight than on the receiving end of artillery.  Arty is very very devastating and the cannons are a couple thousand meters off, so it's not like you can return fire or do much about it.  In a firefight at least you can fight back, and you'll basically know where your enemy is, so you can have something to work off of.  Both are really bad though.
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A bullet of course.  A gun uses a small amount of kinetic energy for the trigger hammer to strike the expolsive cap in the shell but thereafter the explosive force is sent into the bullet, with and equal opposite reaction energy dissipated by providing recoil which the gun uses (if automatic) to load the next shell.\n\nI assume the trick in the question is to ignore the equal and opposite reaction rule but not all of the force thus generated is in the form of kinetic energy which relates to bodies in motion.
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muzzle, at which point there is no more force pushing the projectile and the point which air starts to slow the projectile down.\n\nblack powder burns slowly the length of the barrel, pushing the projectile with increasing speed until it leaves the barrel.\n\nSmokeless powder burns rapidly.
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It means its a dead certain penalty, no doubt about it\n\nAlthough what that has to do with an American Civil War General is completely beyond me.\n\n\n.
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The correct term for someone who puts out fire is a "firefighter". Hence, fight fire. :)
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Death.\n\nFor the 2nd Offense, it's castration over an open fire and then death.
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Invention of necessity. Look in to the History and development of the gun. Let the legal stuff be damn. Defense, defense, defense, or die. A rock will kill you just as easy.
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This is a references to an old phrase started, not England, but Scottland... the term was mistranslated by the English in the midst of war. The Term was used by the Scottish to bring out their weapons and black axes, the axes weren't really black but that's a different story. In any case... it is now used to mean "Get ready for the worse"
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Rollo's bullet hits the ground first, with or without taking air resistance into account. \nThe dropped bullet starts at zero speed and increases it's speed as it falls. The fired bullet starts at high speed and (neglecting air resistance) increases it's speed even more as it falls. Since the fired bullet starts out faster and keeps going faster than the dropped bullet all the way to the ground, it gets there first.\n\nNow let's include air resistance. The fired bullet will still start at high speed but it will start slowing down right away due to friction with the air. At some point it would have slowed to terminal velocity, the velocity at which air resistance equals the force of gravity, and then it will then fall the rest of the way at that speed. The dropped bullet will start from zero speed and speed up until it reaches terminal velocity and will then fall that that speed for the rest of the way. So, although both bullets will hit the ground at the same speed, the fired one traveled part of the way faster than the dropped bullet and never slower than the dropped bullet and still hits the ground first, although the difference is not as great as in the no air resistance case.\n\n(EDIT) Oh, I agree with dei48399. You probably meant he fired the bullet directly to the side. Nobody would doubt the outcome it it was fired down, would they?