On-carriage fire control

On-Carriage Fire Control. A process of controlling fire on a target with the aid of a sighting device mounted directly on the weapon Ref J, Quick, Dictionary of Weapons and Military Terms , McGraw-Hill, NY (1973), 334... 

Frankford Arsenol. One of the US Arsenals listed in Vol 1, p A490-L. It is a field installation of rhe Army Materiel Cmd located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania charged with the responsibility for development, procurement and associated activities for off-carriage fire control systems, and on-carriage fire control components also has responsibilities with respect to small arms ammunition, artillery cartridge cases, projectiles mechanical time fuzes, standard inspection gages ... 

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