gunnery

If the amount was noticeable, that factor would have to be taken into account with gunnery tables.

With metalwork replaced by wooden components on account of their expected short lifespans, as they were used for gunnery training.

Go look at early jet aircraft gunnery statistics for an idea of how laughably bad dogfighting an F35 would be.

Cams and drums did a lot of work plotting bomb angle, gunnery, rate of descent.

Go lookup how good gunnery was in WW2 if you want to understand how hilariously bad that is for gen 4 fighters.

Navigation and gunnery have always been driving forces for mathematical innovation so there are often naval connections to important discoveries and inventions.

Towards the end of WW2 the US Navy got pretty good at anti-aircraft gunnery.

That's an insane number, possible only with VT (proximity) fuses and radar directed gunnery.

Shutting down airspace around Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst makes sense if gunnery is happening.

See production machines like stealth fighters, relay-and-rotor-age pinball machines, military submarines, navigation or gunnery mechanical calculators, large construction projects...

There is also the theory that the British just had more practice at gunnery and sailhandling while blockading the French/Spanish in the various ports.

There is the story about an old-boy RAF pilot who, in the late 1970's was towing a target for a German ships gunnery practice.

The more military-minded might be keener to use "gunnery sergeant" or "chief petty officer:" they're just the most senior person in the rating group^W^W^W^Won the team.