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What does GTL stand for?

Gun-Target Line


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Excalibur also has the ability to be fired as much as 300 mils, or 17 degrees, off the gun-target line and still maneuver to hit the target.
Generally speaking, it requires a very large error in propellant temperature to produce small errors in range along the gun-target line.
Once the mission is sent to the firing unit, the requestor can send refinements to the target grid without generating a new mission, provided those changes are within 100 mils of the original target laterally along the gun-target line.
We used the UAV to observe fires when we could not observe the target from a safe distance due to the minimum safe distance of the type of rounds being fired or the gun-target line (GTL) being online with the observer-target line (OTL).
That means the brigade can use the same rough 500-meter radius cylinder to envision the danger area along the gun-target line at the terminal end of the trajectory, using informal airspace coordination areas (ACAs) around the target.
The advantage is that cannon positioning and gun-tube orientation is not rigidly tied to the gun-target line or limited to clear fields of fire to engage targets accurately.
Artillery is only restricted when/if aircraft fly across the gun-target line within 2,200 meters of the multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) or 155-mm howitzer firing point or the target area and only when the airspace/ fire support coordinating measure (FSCM) is activated.
Position firing units to avoid gun-target line conflicts with Army aviation and close air support (CAS).

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