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Technical fire control has been performed in various places, but mostly in firing batteries.

However, in the 1930s the French moved it to battalion level and combined it with some tactical fire control.

This was copied by the US.

Nevertheless most armies seemed to have retained it within firing batteries and some duplicated the technical fire control teams in a battery to give operational resilience and tactical flexibility.

Computers reduced the number of men needed and enabled decentralisation of technical fire control to autonomous sub-battery fire units such as platoons, troops or sections, although some armies had sometimes done this with their manual methods.

Computation on the gun or launcher, integrated with their laying system, is also possible.

MLRS led the way in this.