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  1. It's interesting that it was derided by the Army. It's a form of training aid known as the "dotter" invented by the famous Royal Navy gunnery expert Percy Scott. It was also adopted by the US Navy under its expert William Sims. In the days before gyro stabilized sights, gunners had use their experience to judge how to compensate for the motion of both his ship ship and the target . The dotter allowed gunner training to occur every day. The result was that when his ship under went its annual firing trials, Scott insisted that judges from the admiral's staff be on his ship to confirm no cheating was going on. They broke every record in existence that day, IIRC both the Royal Garrison Artillery and US Coast Artillery also adopted it http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Dotter and http://navtechlife.com/Dotter.htm
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