Where should a spotting round be fired from?

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Where should a spotting round be fired from?

Spotting rounds are used to observe where a shot lands so you can adjust fire. In this course, the standard practice is not to fire a separate spotting round at all during a mission. Instead, you rely on the observer to watch impacts from the rounds that are fired and use those observations to issue corrections for the subsequent rounds. Firing an extra spotting round would waste ammunition and doesn’t provide a needed advantage within the established procedures, so the correct approach is to never fire a spotting round.

Spotting rounds are used to observe where a shot lands so you can adjust fire. In this course, the standard practice is not to fire a separate spotting round at all during a mission. Instead, you rely on the observer to watch impacts from the rounds that are fired and use those observations to issue corrections for the subsequent rounds. Firing an extra spotting round would waste ammunition and doesn’t provide a needed advantage within the established procedures, so the correct approach is to never fire a spotting round.

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