Guest Mike Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 At 400 yards wouldn't you use a 0 deg elevation??!! Ie jsut poingt the gun at eth enemy - the MV's are going to be so high there's goign to be little or no drop over that distance! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexford Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by Mike: At 400 yards wouldn't you use a 0 deg elevation??!! Ie jsut poingt the gun at eth enemy - the MV's are going to be so high there's goign to be little or no drop over that distance! Good point. At 400 yards the HVAP round with 17 pdr APCBC propellant would probably do the range in 0.4 seconds or so, with a gravity drop of about 0.8 meters. I guess they didn't really look at the situation like you did, cause it sure does seem like an exact range setting would not be needed to hit the glacis plate. Sounds like they were bureaucrats and didn't like any loose ends no matter how insignificant. On the other hand, a definite sight setting would allow aiming at the nose armor and the spread of shots would indicate relative accuracy. A round that drops 0.8m or so in 400 yards could miss the nose armor unless the range setting was close to the target area center. You're the first one to ever ask why a range setting would be needed at the ranges which were involved with the hybrid ammo types (HVAP with 17 pdr propellant). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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