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11:34 Feb 14, 2011

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Military / Defense

French term or phrase: en nasse

I have a list of anti-aircraft unit deployment modes:
"en carré; en triangle; en nasse à trois ou quatre sections; simple ou double rideau"
There is also a reference to "Angle d'ouverture pour les nasses"

Any ideas gratefully received!

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horseshoe layout	xxxBourth

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Reference: horseshoe layout

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Typically a nasse is an elongated fishing net or pot, wider at the inlet, with a conical section so fish can get in more easily than out. I don't see what advantage this would be in AA gunnery unless one knows which direction the attack is coming from and on which very precise flight path.

This would resemble a sort of elongated horseshoe, and there is some reference to a horseshoe layout for AA guns, though they all seem to concern the same emplacements.

A heavy anti-aircraft battery. This shows the typical layout of FOUR 3.7 INCH GUN EMPLACEMENTS ARRANGED IN A HORSE-SHOE LAYOUT with the command centre set slightly back

A heavy anti-aircraft battery at Maker Heights overlooking Plymouth Sound. Towards the left of the photo are the huts providing accommodation for the 80 or more soldiers manning the battery; these make use of an eighteenth century redoubt. There are FOUR GUN EMPLACEMENTS LAID OUT IN A HORSE-SHOE ARRANGEMENT, each surrounded by an earthwork.
http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/ground.html

The fixed emplacements were most often clustered in a HORSE-SHOE LAYOUT see left, around a command post
http://thedaysofglory2.blogspot.com/2010/08/anti-aircraft-gu...

If à trois ou quatre sections refers to 3 or 4 emplacements (guns), I can see four forming a horseshoe, but I wonder in what way a 3-emplacement horseshoe differs from a triangular layout ...

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