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Such a different line of officers. Useful exercises with an officer's ruler Officer's ruler

In the section Science, Technology, Languages to the question how to use the officer's ruler? given by the author Dmitry sov.secret the best answer is So. The officer's line primarily serves to simplify the officer's work with the map. Numbers indicate department numbers. The icon in the form of a parachute is the location of the landing force. Diamonds are tanks, a rectangle with a sharp side is an infantry fighting vehicle, a rectangle in the shape of a car is a supply vehicle or another wheeled vehicle. Triangles, flags and rectangles are divisions. Ovals and roundnesses - units and attack areas, etc.





Reply from Vladislav Sysuev[newbie]
So that's it. The officer's line primarily serves to simplify the officer's work with the map. Numbers indicate department numbers. The icon in the form of a parachute is the location of the landing force. Diamonds are tanks, a rectangle with a sharp side is an infantry fighting vehicle, a rectangle in the shape of a car is a supply vehicle or another wheeled vehicle. Triangles, flags and rectangles are divisions. Ovals and roundnesses - units and attack areas, etc.


Reply from Kofka[guru]
a protractor to measure angles and cutouts to quickly draw figures!
It's a shame not to know!


Reply from Udav[guru]
A protractor for measuring the azimuth along which your battalion will attack, cutouts for marking various points on the map


Reply from Anastasia Chekanova[newbie]
for everything


Reply from 2 answers[guru]

This subject is familiar to most children who grew up in the USSR. For the lucky owner of a transparent strip with many holes in the form of various geometric shapes ok classmates looked with envy. These days this item is more of a rarity. Even the military itself is increasingly resorting to using paper maps.

A little history

The exact time when people began to use a ruler is unknown, but during excavations of settlements of the ancient Hellenes buried under layers of sand and stone, archaeologists found smooth wooden tablets with divisions. This is not surprising, because architectural monuments that era are impressive. The ancient designers who created these structures probably used one or another drawing tools when developing their projects.

A ruler with modern measures of length appeared in France. One fine day, people got tired of endlessly converting some measures of length into others (pounds, inches, arshins, elbows, etc.) and a meter was adopted as a measure of length - one forty-millionth of the circumference of the globe.

Well, like any human invention, the line, when it was born, quickly began to develop. There are all kinds of rulers. Regular strip with divisions. A ruler in the form of a square with different angles. The usual protractor, indispensable in drawing, is a semicircle with divisions into degrees, etc.

Why did the officers need a ruler?

Since time immemorial, military personnel have used maps to plan their actions. And if the commanders of antiquity had no questions about how to plot the location of their troops and the enemy’s forces on the terrain map, then in times close to modern times, everything became not so simple.

The success of a planned offensive often depended on the strict execution of a specific task by subordinate units at a specified place and time. Not last role This was played by the maps of the area that the commanders had. The locations of units, directions of strikes and counterstrikes, and locations of fortifications were marked on them.

The troops have long ceased to consist only of cavalry and infantry. On the map it was necessary to indicate machine gun nests, locations of communications equipment, gun crews, positions military equipment and much more.

It is precisely because of the variety of symbols and signs applied to military topographic maps that the need arose to unify all these designations. The goal is to make the map developed by one officer understandable and “readable” for all his other colleagues in uniform. The standard officer line began to be widely used during the First World War, and by all warring parties at once.

What is an officer's line?

Probably everyone knows what this drawing tool looks like. The officer's ruler is more of a kind of stencil with which you can apply special signs. For ease of use, it is usually made of some transparent material. The USSR officer's ruler was made of transparent celluloid. The material was not completely transparent, but had a yellow-gray color. In modern Russian army An officer's ruler is used, cast from hard transparent plastic.

Lovers of antiques appreciate the Soviet version. But it’s not only collectors who are drawn to antiquities. Officers who, due to their occupation, still have to use a ruler, oddly enough, also prefer “Made in the USSR.” The fact is that the officer's ruler, made of celluloid, practically does not break, unlike its modern counterpart.

What are there

The officer's line is not 100% universal. Some troops had individual species. Here, for example, is the standard officer line. Photo from the standard set of officer's tablet.

The next option is not much different. This is a naval officer's line. Military school cadets also had their own line.

And here is another officer's line. Photo from US Army equipment.

And such rulers were found among prisoners or killed German officers during the Great Patriotic War.

How to use it

Any of the listed types of rulers contains a set of various icons that the military usually uses to designate certain tactical units. Just put the ruler down, press it down and trace the desired shape with a pencil. A whole set of all kinds of symbols and various figures (outlines aircraft, ships, other pieces of equipment) contains any officer line.

Scale windows are designed to allow you to estimate the distance on the map in real units of measurement without wasting precious time on calculations. All other features of the standard ruler No. 2 are the same as those of any other drawing device. Individual edges of the officer's ruler are made in the form of irregularities of various configurations. With their help, wavy lines are drawn on the map. Almost all rulers have a familiar protractor - an angle meter.

Some copies have a section in the form of a magnifying glass, with which you can make out small symbols and inscriptions on the map.

Specialized rulers are more difficult to use. For example, an artillery officer's line. This is a whole measuring device with which the artilleryman could calculate, in addition to the firing range, some parameters of the ballistic trajectory, the sector of fire, etc.

Applying symbols on topographic maps and other working documents).

In English - combat mission plotter (line of combat events)

It is used for orienting on a topographic map, on the ground, determining coordinates, with its help it is possible to draw fonts, figures, numbers, and measure angles. In fact, it is a universal tool and a complete set of drawing devices in one tool.

Designed for:

  • measurements, including on topographic maps and plans;
  • application to working documents ( topographic map) conventional signs, such as:
    • friendly and enemy formations.
    • their tasks according to purpose
    • their actions, planned and actual
    • placement of various weapons, equipment and equipment
    • the use of various weapons and equipment
    • prohibited zones, zones of fires, floods, radiation, chemical, biological (bacteriological) contamination
    • military roads, routes, column tracks
  • creating graphic images, diagrams, plans.

Compound

Includes:

  • ruler;
  • protractor (180 degrees) with double-sided millimeter graduation scale;
  • various geometric shapes (circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, ovals, and so on);
  • special graphics and inscriptions Officer's ruler, prices and manufacturer;
  • scale scale;
  • stencils.

Size

Price

  • USSR - 47 kopecks;
  • Russian Federation - from 7 to 30 rubles.

See also

  • Artillery circle AK-3
  • Chord angle meter

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Notes

Literature

  • I. D. Pombrick, N. A. Shevchenko, “Commander’s Work Card”, Military Publishing House, Moscow, 1967.
  • Great Soviet Encyclopedia. - M.: Soviet encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
  • Textbook, “Military Topography”, team of authors, Voenizdat, M., 1983.
  • Combat Manual of the Ground Forces, Parts I, II, III, Voenizdat, M., 1983.
  • Universal German-Russian Dictionary, Akademik.ru, 2011.

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Prince Andrei at first read with only his eyes, but then involuntarily what he read (despite the fact that he knew how much he should have believed Bilibin) began to occupy him more and more. Having read this far, he crumpled the letter and threw it away. It was not what he read in the letter that made him angry, but he was angry that this life there, alien to him, could bother him. He closed his eyes, rubbed his forehead with his hand, as if driving away all interest in what he was reading, and listened to what was happening in the nursery. Suddenly he heard a strange sound outside the door. Fear came over him; he was afraid that something had happened to the child while he was reading the letter. He tiptoed to the nursery door and opened it.
The minute he entered, he saw that the nanny, with a frightened look, had hidden something from him, and that Princess Marya was no longer at the crib.
“My friend,” he heard from behind him the desperate, as it seemed to him, whisper of Princess Marya. As often happens after a long period of insomnia and prolonged anxiety, an unreasonable fear came over him: it occurred to him that the child had died. Everything he saw and heard seemed to him to be confirmation of his fear.
“It’s all over,” he thought, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead! He walked up to the crib in confusion, confident that he would find it empty, which the nanny had hidden dead child. He opened the curtains, and for a long time his frightened, darting eyes could not find the child. Finally he saw him: a ruddy boy, spread out, lying across the crib, his head lowered below the pillow and in his sleep he smacked his lips, moved his lips, and breathed evenly.
Prince Andrei was delighted to see the boy as if he had already lost him. He bent down and, as his sister had taught him, tried with his lips to see if the child had a fever. His tender forehead was wet, he touched his head with his hand - even his hair was wet: the child was sweating so much. Not only did he not die, but now it was obvious that the crisis had occurred and that he had recovered. Prince Andrei wanted to grab, crush, press this small, helpless creature to his chest; he didn't dare do it. He stood over him, looking at his head, arms, legs, which were located under the blanket. A rustling sound was heard next to him, and some shadow appeared to him under the canopy of the crib. He didn’t look back and listened to everything, looking into the child’s face and his even breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Marya, who with silent steps approached the crib, raised the curtain and lowered it behind her. Prince Andrei, without looking back, recognized her and extended his hand to her. She squeezed his hand.

The officer's ruler is a special device designed for the work of an officer. It is usually made of transparent plastic and looks like a rectangle with various slots. Depending on a particular type, patterns, stencils, a protractor, divisions for measuring distances or angles, and for applying symbols, for example, on topographic maps, can be placed on it.

Scope of application

An officer's ruler, the photo of which you see above, is used, mainly for orientation on a topographic map, to determine more accurate coordinates. In addition, it can be used to easily measure angles, draw shapes, fonts and numbers.

Any officer’s ruler is a universal working tool that combines a variety of drawing devices. It is used mainly for taking measurements (for example, on maps and plans), conveniently marking symbols such as floods or fires, areas of radiation, biological or chemical contamination, and the placement of various types of weapons and equipment. Also, the officer’s ruler allows you to mark on maps highways, column tracks and special routes. In addition, you can use it to create any graphic images, plans and diagrams.

Description

Any officer's ruler includes (in addition to such a simple geometric measuring instrument as a ruler) a scale scale, a protractor with a double-sided millimeter division scale and stencils. In addition, it must contain special inscriptions and images, as well as various ones. For example, these can be rectangles, circles, triangles, squares and ovals.

Main types

Currently, it is customary to distinguish between two main types of such products - the officer's naval line and the land line. The first is intended to simplify and speed up the laying of the routes of various vessels. This tool easily replaces the commonly used protractor and parallel ruler. In addition, it allows officers to bypass the necessary compass correction calculations. In this way, the possibility of calculation errors can be eliminated.

And finally, this simplest computing mechanism makes it possible to “remember” the deviation table, as well as the course followed by a sea vessel, and the corresponding corrections on this course.

As for the ground officer line, in addition to applying standard geometric shapes and symbols, it allows you to make such designations as a cannon (field gun, howitzer), machine gun (manual, easel), parachute (landing), communications station and observation post. The designations of all the signs presented on this instrument, which, depending on the additions inside and outside, can change their meaning, are described in detail in a special manual called “Commander’s Work Card”.