By: QldSpitty - 27th October 2007 at 13:30
More than one use during the war..
They also manufactured the binocular and monocular sights on many of the panzers.Gave the ability of the Tigers to engage out to longer ranges more accurately.Three thousand yards with a kill shot on a moving target on the third or fourth shot.Depending on the gunner of course.
By: missileer - 26th October 2007 at 14:42
The main producers of optical bombsights for the Luftwaffe were Karl Zeiss of Jena. I dont know of other manufacturers though, although there must have been others, or sub-contractors.
Thus my interest – some camera lenses dating from the immediate post-war years are rumoured to have been made by adapting optics salvaged or looted from bombsights. Marketed as Zeiss lenses, they were ‘disowned’ by the company.
By: Denis - 26th October 2007 at 13:34
The main producers of optical bombsights for the Luftwaffe were Karl Zeiss of Jena. I dont know of other manufacturers though, although there must have been others, or sub-contractors.
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October 26, 2007 at 11:57 am