English Explanatory Dictionary

Kerrison predictor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early automated anti-aircraft fire-control system, capable of aiming a gun at an aircraft based on simple inputs such as observed speed and the angle to the target.

Word forms

Kerrison predictor Kerrison predictors

Etymology

Designed by Major A. V. Kerrison at the Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, in the late 1930s.

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