Thinking a bit more about this week's blog post (https://acoup.blog/2021/09/24/collections-no-mans-land-part-ii-breaking-the-stalemate/ …) and its predecessor, one thing I hope comes through clearly in this analysis is how many 'easy' solutions fall apart when they make contact with the finicky, stubborn details.
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The final problem was accuracy - the longer your shell is in the air on those big, vertical trajectories, the more different atmospheric and weather conditions it is going to move through. You can't be measuring that live at every point between you and the target.
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So even with the best path, at extreme ranges, hitting small things (like a single artillery battery) gets harder and harder. Naval artillery used 'ladder shooting' in their opening shots, flatly assuming the first shot would only be to try to ballpark the target's range.
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