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Gyro Director Training Gear (often G.D.T. or GDT) was a Royal Navy innovation hit upon late in the war which revisited the means by which a ship would take bearings to a target and plot them on a Dreyer Fire Control Table. GDT arrived too late to see action in the war.[Citation needed]
Prior Methods
Before the advent of GDT, a Royal Navy capital ship would take bearings to the target from either an Argo Rangefinder or from a Mark VII Dumaresq situated in the armoured hood, and these would be rectified by a gyro-compass before being plotted against time on
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKPamphletDreyerTableMarkIII*1930
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1930). Pamphlet on the Mark IV* Dreyer Table. O.U. 6196 (C). Copy at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
