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  • leave the barrel of the weapon at the axis of bore set from the angle of sight desired to strike the target area. The trajectory of the round should be...
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    Parallax (category Angle)
    in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those...
    24 KB (3,841 words) - 01:14, 28 August 2024
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    advice, however, is to focus on the front sight. Due to parallax, even a tiny error in the angle of sight alignment results in a trajectory that diverges...
    43 KB (5,691 words) - 01:41, 23 August 2024
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    geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle. Angles formed...
    54 KB (6,768 words) - 22:35, 30 August 2024
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    Sextant (category Angle measuring instruments)
    navigation. The estimation of this angle, the altitude, is known as sighting or shooting the object, or taking a sight. The angle, and the time when it was measured...
    22 KB (3,157 words) - 10:00, 28 June 2024
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    Milliradian (redirect from Mil (angle))
    as a thousandth of a radian (0.001 radian). Milliradians are used in adjustment of firearm sights by adjusting the angle of the sight compared to the...
    41 KB (5,022 words) - 10:21, 29 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Reflector sight
    A reflector sight or reflex sight is an optical sight that allows the user to look through a partially reflecting glass element and see an illuminated...
    33 KB (4,189 words) - 07:46, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)
    122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30) (category Howitzers of the Soviet Union)
    telescope, a panoramic periscopic indirect-fire sight (dial sight) in a reciprocating mounting, an angle of sight scale, and a range drum for each charge engraved...
    46 KB (4,019 words) - 21:49, 10 September 2024
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    D-74 122 mm field gun (category Field artillery of the Cold War)
    (OP4M), a panoramic periscopic indirect-fire sight, a dial sight, (PG1M), an angle of sight scale, and a range drum for the single charge engraved with...
    12 KB (1,189 words) - 20:14, 25 August 2024
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    Abbot (artillery) (category Self-propelled artillery of the United Kingdom)
    of charges and its compact turret, the Abbot did not have calibrating sights. Instead, the sight mount had both Tangent Elevation (TE) and Angle of Sight...
    12 KB (1,196 words) - 19:22, 24 May 2024
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    130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46) (category Field artillery of the Cold War)
    telescope, a panoramic periscopic indirect-fire sight (a dial sight) in a reciprocating mounting, an angle of sight scale, and a range drum engraved with the...
    34 KB (3,708 words) - 14:45, 2 August 2024
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    Glaucoma (redirect from Open angle glaucoma)
    has been called the "silent thief of sight" because the loss of vision usually occurs slowly over a long period of time. A major risk factor for glaucoma...
    90 KB (9,916 words) - 20:34, 10 September 2024
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    fixed angle, the range angle, which accounts for the various effects on the trajectory of the bomb. To the operator looking through the sights, the crosshairs...
    68 KB (9,879 words) - 05:13, 5 July 2024
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    as it may provide wider angle of sight and less air resistance without obstructing driver's frontal view, though the first of these problems can be alleviated...
    11 KB (1,286 words) - 10:48, 24 August 2024
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    telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. It is equipped with some form of a referencing...
    86 KB (10,871 words) - 20:25, 6 August 2024
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    Stereoscopic rangefinder (category Firearm sights)
    be used." The angle of sight of a rangefinder and the range to the target can be combined in a simple computer to produce a measurement of altitude. The...
    5 KB (521 words) - 20:16, 4 December 2023
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    The Euler angles are three angles introduced by Leonhard Euler to describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system....
    48 KB (5,217 words) - 23:24, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 152 mm gun-howitzer D-20
    152 mm gun-howitzer D-20 (category Field artillery of the Cold War)
    (OP4M), a panoramic periscopic indirect-fire sight, a dial sight, (PG1M) in a mounting, an angle of sight scale, and a range drum for each charge engraved...
    22 KB (2,349 words) - 02:47, 12 September 2024
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    wind direction knob, the main portion of the sight was pushed to the left or right, indicating the required angle to fly to take the aircraft over the...
    39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:11, 28 July 2024
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    in a box. The same image, with views of the object projected in the direction of sight onto walls using first-angle projection. Similar image showing the...
    24 KB (3,218 words) - 01:50, 24 March 2024
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