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Abstract

A gunnery training system comprising a fire control unit located at a trainee location and including an aiming sight, an aiming controller, and a trigger; a video display viewable through the aiming sight and providing a field of view through the aiming sight corresponding to the actual view of a target through the aiming sight of an actual gun; apparatus for sensing the orientation of the trainee's line of sight or of a simulated or actual gun provided by the operation of the aiming controller by the trainee; apparatus for determining the trajectory of a simulated projectile relative to the target provided by the sensed orientation produced by the trainee's operation of the aiming controller; a library of video records of actual projectile trajectories and impacts for various orientations of an actual gun relative to the target shown on the display as seen through the aiming sight; and apparatus responsive to operation of the trigger and to an output from the determining apparatus for selecting a video record from the library and displaying it on the display in a time relationship to trigger actuation which corresponds generally to the time relationship between trigger actuation and the displayed events in actual firing.

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First Claim