Firing position
Those Firing position a position of two millitaerischer vehicles is to each other made possible those an optimal development for its weapon effect.
Nautically
With ships is the line formation of special importance, the ships of a formation drive one behind the other and can fire at so parallel to it driving other fleet with broadsides (therefore it also Liner).
Avionisch
With airplanes with cannons, the rear possibility has to fire at the front. During an approach of over itamong them a larger attack region results on the goal, and thus an increased probability of hit.
From it the necessity one results Evasive maneuver, with that the pursued airplane the other one by turning flight to extract tries. The pilot flies intermediate however close curves (Auskurven), with which it usually two goals reaches:
- the respective Time window to successful firing at of its airplane is very small
- in this short time the aggressor cannot meet usually spontaneously erfolreich, since it must meet a moving target from a not-horizontal situation. Reflection visor in addition the prospective hit situation can point out to it to some extent reliably.
The aggressor remains only the choice, to pull still closer circles and to find by craving an useful predicted position. Then covered its own nose however the view on the opponent, which this the opportunity for rolling awayAbtauchen lends. The aggressor can throttle now (the opponent should not be able to evade due to the inertia) the travel of its Gewaehrts or extend the radius and in the moment where he the opponent expected, fire.
From this two conceivable firing positions result:
- the tangent position: the pursuer flies a first larger radius and swivels then with the help of the elevator on the opponent (which can protect him against the fire tail contactors of the light bomber)
- the secant position: that pursues fleigt from the beginning closer circles than its opponent and fires then before the nose of the pursued one (with fighters the most frequent method)
