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"firing solution" is a set of numbers that describes how you get the ordnance there. It's a gunnery term.

btw, since we're being pedantic about terminology, it's "ordnance", not "ordinance" -- the latter means laws.




Points taken. I should clarify that my experience is with French infantry, which I suspect accounts for the slight difference in vocabulary.

Re "firing solution", I've heard it used both in artillery (i.e.: "solution to a parabolic equation") and in a more general context of "tactical solutions". The latter might be an informal term, in US parlance, though.


Could very well be. My perspective is US Naval and ground warfare gunnery.




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