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CERCLE POINTAGE [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

The elevating and traversing mechanism consists of an upper elevating screw; a lower elevating screw; an elevating handwheel assembly secured to the head of the lower elevating screw; a housing mating the lower elevating screw; a traversing slide, and a traversing screw, handwheel, and micrometer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

Les déplacements du bipied pendant le pointage se réduisent à un pivotement autour de la ligne des pointes; dans ce mouvement, l'écrou de la vis de pointage en direction décrit alors un cercle dans un plan vertical [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Military Exercises
  • Cartography
DEF

An instrument that measures angles in azimuth and at elevation [which is] used for artillery firings and topographic mapping.

CONT

About an hour before the howitzers and fire direction center move, a small advance party heads out to prepare the new area. The battery commander selects positions for the howitzer, while the gunnery sergeant uses an aiming circle (a surveying instrument on a tripod) to assist guides from each gun in getting their positions properly oriented on the azimuth of fire.

CONT

Between hikes, we had training exercises. We spent days in the field with aiming circles and chain tapes setting up gun positions and mapping target areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Exercices militaires
  • Cartographie
CONT

La prise en mains [du spotmètre] est confortable, l’empreinte des doigts étant moulée sur la poignée. Le viseur est un peu moins clair, mais beaucoup plus large que sur le Sekonic, le cercle de visée (1°, comme sur le Sekonic) très fin, parfois difficile à discerner en basse lumière.

Spanish

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