Another OT post- naval fire control computers

[smashedProton]

I found another old military film that I really like, and you probably would too.  It's about the fire control computers in battleships.  It's extraordinary that they used cams as a equivalent to a look up table. 

[SeanB]

Memories of the F1 moving map display, though that had a lot of electronics in it instead of mechanical parts, though there was a heck of a lot of syncro systems in there to move the film in the carrier. We were using a whole pile of Mirage III autopilots that were scrapped as a source for the synchros, resolvers and gears as they used common parts for them. Those were all mechanical, a box you needed 2 people to carry ands 4 to put in the bay, all brass plates and gears, with thousands of ball races, generally at least 2 on each shaft, and hundreds of anti backlash gear trains.

[free_electron]

that movie is bloody brilliant ! even an uninitiated can understand it ! we need electronics movies like that !

[xrunner]

I found another old military film that I really like, and you probably would too.  It's about the fire control computers in battleships.  It's extraordinary that they used cams as a equivalent to a look up table. 

+1 Karma point to you for that!

[4to20Milliamps]

They need to use those linear slides with teeth and gears on those new fangled 3d printers, it would probably make them much more accurate and stable.

[smashedProton]

that movie is bloody brilliant ! even an uninitiated can understand it ! we need electronics movies like that !

I know!  The us military video on radio is another good one.

[smashedProton]

Here:

[GeoffS]

That video on FM takes me back to my radio training days in the RAAF.
This was 1970 so the film shown, wouldn't have been  that old.
The American training files were much better than their British counterparts.

[Phaedrus]

Beauty! Leave it to the Cold War US military to teach half a semester's worth of material in two 20 minute videos in a way even an idiot like me can understand!