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>How did the battleships manage to hit their targets before radar was invented?
optical range finding, and some fairly sophisticated mathematical calculations on mechanical computers, hit rates werent great, the best shooting units at jutland managed about 5% hit rate, although part of that problem was that even if you had all the guns dead on target and the range correct against a stationary target a full broadside is still going to be landing in a lozenge shaped pattern, not dead on target as minor variations in powder charge and shell have some effect on a shells trajectory, even in ww2 with accurate guns and radar accurate shooting meant getting your pattern over the enemy and hoping at least one actually connected known as a straddle.

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How did the battleships manage to hit their targets before radar was invented?It seems utterly insane to think that they somehow managed to fight…

How did the battleships manage to hit their targets before radar was invented?
It seems utterly insane to think that they somehow managed to fight…