ANGULAR DEFLECTION WITH A THEODOLITE

At Fort Bragg not long after I started finishing the first sets of .50 caliber tables I very interested in solving another problem that we were having. That is solving the range determination problem to a super fine level. Long before I was in the Special Forces, I was in the conventional army as a combat engineer. A few times, we were on road construction projects in some of the major training areas in Europe. I remembered that there were a couple of engineering officers that had used a mechanical theodolite to lay out the road sites. One of these officers explained a little about the capabilities of these instruments and how they resolve and measure angles to a very fine degree, much better than standard engineer transits.....

This is a chapter extracted from Dean Michaelis' book on Hard Target Interdiction.    The full text can be found through the 6 linked sets.  These sets are in adobe pdf format for copyright purposes. 

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