Mechanical analog computers for fire control have been around since before WWI, from when the increasing range of big naval guns made any sort of point-and-shoo

Mechanical analog computers for fire control have been around since before WWI, from when the increasing range of big naval guns made any sort of point-and-shoot ineffective. A lot of interesting material on British systems of that time can be found at the Dreadnought Project: http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Category:Fire_Control http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Category:Fir... http://www.jutland1916.com/tactics-and-technologies-4/range-finding-and-course-plotting-2/ http://www.jutland1916.com/tactics-and-technologies-4/range-...