▲ | adolph 3 days ago | |||||||
Slight correction, latitude, not longitude. The earth’s surface closer to the poles has less distance to travel for any rotation than the surface closer to the equator. As a result the inertial navigation systems of long distance systems must be adjusted. Iirc, this is also the case for artillery firing computations. https://www.oxts.com/blog/going-round-circles-earth-rotation... | ||||||||
▲ | billyjmc 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Coriolis corrections are thrown into sniper ballistic calculations, too. Not a huge effect in most conditions, but not zero, and there have been a lot of long shots in the past two decades. | ||||||||
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