Hallo Karl,
für das Koppeln der Feuerstellungen (wie es in der deutschen Artillerie heisst) benutzten die Briten eine besondere Methode in der Wüste:
QuoteAt each change of grid the batteries corrected their own fix and orientation, and modified their registered target data. In the desert from early 1942 air-burst fixation was used. A designated troop fire a series of high air-burst shells at two different points 30° apart, other batteries observed these with a director, enabling them to all put themselves onto a slightly rough common grid.
Dabei benutzten sie Air-Bursts (hochgezogene Sprengpunkte), wo ein bestimmter Troop jeweils eine Serie von Granaten in zwei um 30° verschiedene Richtungen abfeuerte und sich die anderen Batterien danach mit dem Richtkreis ausrichteten, um sich in einem provisorischem Kartennetz zu positionieren.
Gruss
Franz
Anmerkung: Die britische Artillerie-Organisation ist etwas seltsam in unseren Augen:
However, in 1938 the field brigades were renamed regiments, lost their survey sections and reorganised in two batteries of guns, regimental HQ was significantly increased in size including gaining a second in command. The batteries were reorganised with sections being grouped into 'troops'. Each field battery of 12 guns was organised as three troops (except RHA batteries that had eight guns in two troops) and medium brigades became regiments of 2 batteries. The Commonwealth armies followed suit, in some cases not until early 1940. The field regiments changed again after 1940 as the lessons of the campaign in France were absorbed.
troop = Batterie (4 Geschütze), battery = Abteilung (3 Batterien), regiment = Regiment (2 Abteilungen)