Artillery Spotting

[mosborne]

Hi:
I imagine this topic has been discussed before, but couldn't find a thread, so maybe I start and some one can point me in the right direction.

I would be curious to know the concept behind artillery spotting.
In the context of developed countries, it would seem that locating artillery would be fairly straight forward with simple trajectory weapons (no inflight corrections).

With the help of Newton's laws and some radar equipment, I would think that pinpointing the origin of any simple shell would be fairly straightforward. Conversly, they would also know a conventional shell vs a non-conventional shell by its flight path. If this is the case, would it make sense to identify all large caliber artillery (I think small caliber shells may not get out of the noise to be seen)once they fire against a superpower like the US, Russia, UK, China, France etc.? Otherwise, are we imposing WWII methods across the board regardless of technical capabilities.

Although, I am sure it its true that the capability of auto artillery detection is not always available, so that may depend on the scenario. If the scenario is part of a bigger theater of operation then the capability could be present, but if it is a smaller scale skirmish, then maybe not, in which case things like helos can be used.

I am guessing that the code change would be to first determine if the capability is present, and if so then enemy artillery is spotted when it fires, but I maybe simplifying things too much.

Thanks