Скачать или смотреть When They Put Aircraft Gyro Sights on Field Artillery — Germans Called Them “Ghost Gunners”

December 1944. The Ardennes. One German Captain. Twenty shells. Fifteen seconds. Zero warning.

Hauptmann Franz Dietrich crouched in the frozen mud, witnessing the impossible. No ranging shots. No corrections. Just sudden, total annihilation dropping from an empty sky. The Wehrmacht called them Geistergeschütze—Ghost Guns.

But the secret weapon wasn't a gun. It was a wooden slide rule.

While German crews spent fifteen minutes calculating firing data, American Captain Abbott Burns changed the game. He turned complex calculus into a simple graphical scale. The result? 'Time on Target.' Seventy-two shells fired from different batteries, miles apart, arriving at the exact same second.

One slide rule. One radio call. Total destruction.

This is the untold story of the artillery revolution that broke the German spirit, from the 'Fire Direction Center' to the terrifying radar-guided VT fuze. Discover how the U.S. Army weaponized mathematics to erase entire grid squares.

Watch till the end—you won't believe how the 'Variable Time' fuze actually worked.