Mar 31, 2020 07:17
4 yrs ago
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Russian term

недолёт / перелёт

Russian to English Other Military / Defense стрелковое оружие, стрельба пулемётов
"наблюдать за падением своих пуль. Докладывать о недолетах и перелетах."

контекст, стрельба, пулеметы.

надеюсь котото посмотрит подходящую английскую литературу и подскажет термины.

Discussion

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D. Mar 31, 2020:
A physicist, an engineer, and a statistician go bear hunting. The physicist misses to the left, the engineer to the right. "Statistically speaking," says the statistician, "the bear is dead."

Proposed translations

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1 hr

undershooting/overshooting

respectively:

- to shoot a projectile so that it falls short of a target
- the amount of excessive distance in a trajectory or route

"under/over" is for fried eggs :))))

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Note added at 1 hr (2020-03-31 09:01:06 GMT)
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"report overshooting and undershooting"
Peer comment(s):

agree IrinaN
5 hrs
thanks, Irina
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4 hrs

short round/long round

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a074145.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=LhCOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=...

actually plot two points, one for the short round and one for the long round.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ajNEAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA17&...

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imposed, recognizing that while a short round may be a disaster in conventional war, a long round may be equally unfortunate when fighting
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-ins...
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11 mins

short / over

short and over in artillery

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Note added at 16 mins (2020-03-31 07:34:32 GMT)
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short and over the target:
https://books.google.kg/books?id=_uKNPWOFio0C&pg=PA17&lpg=PA...

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Note added at 10 days (2020-04-10 11:45:06 GMT)
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For almost two hours they ranged the guns of the English battery with
which they were in wireless communication. They indicated targets,
reported the shorts and overs and contributed considerably to the
afternoon's discomfort of the German residents of Farbus.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks11/1100421.txt
Peer comment(s):

agree DTSM : https://www.google.com/search?q="shorts, overs and targets"&...
8 mins
Thank you!
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