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===Post-1945=== By the 1950s [[gun turret]]s were increasingly unmanned, with gun laying controlled remotely from the ship's control centre using inputs from [[radar]] and other sources. The last combat action for the analog rangekeepers, at least for the US Navy, was in the 1991 [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]]<ref name="Retirement">{{cite news |title = Older weapons hold own in high-tech war |url = http://www.dogtagsrus.com/p-38%20can%20opener%20articles.htm |work = Dallas Morning News |date = 1991-02-10 |access-date = 2006-09-30 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061006223630/http://www.dogtagsrus.com/p-38%20can%20opener%20articles.htm |archive-date = 2006-10-06 |url-status = dead }}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=September 2023}} when the rangekeepers on the {{Sclass|Iowa|battleship}}s directed their last rounds in combat.
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