HMCS Nootka fires her Boffin, 1951. (RCN)
Copyright © Norman Friedman 2013
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CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 AN EVOLVING THREAT
CHAPTER 2 MAKING ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE EFFECTIVE
CHAPTER 3 BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 4 THE INTER-WAR ROYAL NAVY
CHAPTER 5 THE INTER-WAR US NAVY
CHAPTER 6 THE INTER-WAR IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY
CHAPTER 7 OTHER EUROPEAN NAVIES BETWEEN THE WARS
CHAPTER 8 THE ROYAL NAVY AT WAR
CHAPTER 9 THE US NAVY AT WAR
CHAPTER 10 AXIS NAVIES AT WAR
CHAPTER 11 POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX: GUN DATA
INDEX
AA = anti-aircraft
ABU = Auto-Barrage Unit
ACNS(W) = Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons)
ADO = Air Defence Officer
ADP = Air Defence Position
ADR = Aircraft Direction Room
AFCB = Admiralty Fire Control Box
AFCC = Admiralty Fire Control Clock
AFCT = Admiralty Fire Control Table
AGE = Admiralty Gunnery Establishment
AIO = Action Information Organisation
API = advanced primer ignition
APV = average projectile velocity
ARL = Admiralty Research Laboratory
ASV = Air to Surface Vessel (radar)
ATEWA = Automatic Target Evaluator and Weapon Assigner
AUTOCOFAS = Automatic Control Officer’s Forward Area Sight
AW = aircraft warning
BD = between decks (mounting)
BT = Biplane Tail
BuAer = Bureau of Aeronautics (US)
BuOrd = Bureau of Ordnance (US)
BUSTER = Bofors Universal Stabilised Tachymetric Electric Radar
CAFO = Confidential Admiralty Fleet Order
CAP = Combat Air Patrol
CDS = Comprehensive Display System
CEP = Circular Error Probable
CMB = Coastal Motor Boat
CNO = Chief of Naval Operations
CO = commanding officer
COFAS = Control Officer’s Forward Area Sight
ComAirPac = Commander Air Forces Pacific
CR = close-range
CRBF(D) = Close Range Blind Fire (Director)
CRH = calibre radius head
CRS = close-range system
D of A = Director of Artillery (Army)
DA = direct action (fuse/gun)
DAMS = Defensively Armed Merchant Ships
DCB = distance-controlled boat
DCG = Drum Control Gear
DCT = director control tower
DEMS = Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships
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