Revi Gunsight range adjustment

[chris455]

I notice we don't have one.................

Should we?

[SharpeXB]

I don't believe the Revi had that adjustment.

[chris455]

I don't believe the Revi had that adjustment.

Certainly there must have been a way to solve for range??

[Sokol1]

Look at "combat range" http://www.allworldwars.com/Luftwaffe-Gunnery-Primer-D-Luft-5000-1.html

[Potenz]

revi doesn't had the range adjustment like british or american gunsights

[chris455]

Thanks all,

Interesting read re: range.

I guess the Germans used the fixed reticle to mentally calculate combat ranges.

Good stuff!

[Potenz]

this is an old but useful video on how to ranging with fixed gunsight like the revi series 

 

[SharpeXB]

There's a dial on the Russian sights that looks like a range adjustment though?

[1./JG42Nephris]

Maybe this is a nice addition to the thread.

It is the "Schiessfibel" (fighter shooting bibel) last updated 1944 for Luftwaffe pilots in "comic style".

Of course it is in german, but the pictures will give you an overview of the idea behind.

You will notice aswell some easy explanations to the ReVi and how to measure & when to pull the trigger.

 

edit: translated version at M4T

Edited October 11, 2014 by 1./JG42Nephris

[chris455]

Yhank you Potenz and Nephris!

[Matt]

There's a dial on the Russian sights that looks like a range adjustment though?

That's for "tilting" the reflector glass for bombing purposes. It has nothing to do with range adjustment. Ranges were fixed on the gunsights we're having in BoS.

Edited October 12, 2014 by Matt

[Han]

Can't imagine how adjustible range may help while guns are convergenced on fixed range...

[354thFG_Leifr]

Can't imagine how adjustible range may help while guns are convergenced on fixed range...

 

I think you may be misappropriating what is being said here.

As an example, the reflector gunsight in the RAF aircraft in CLoD can be manually adjusted to account for the range that your armaments have been configured for. I usually set convergence to 250 on the RAF (8x Brownings!) and then dial down the reflector gunsight manually (it defaults at 400) to match the set range.

[Sokol1]

"I usually set convergence to 250 on the RAF (8x Brownings!) and then dial down the reflector gunsight manually (it defaults at 400) to match the set range"...

 

and this for specific targets, e.g diall adjust to match Bf 109 wingspan, latter (in same mission) for He111, etc. making unnecessary do range estimation.

 

Of course this is for RL gunsights that have this adjust.

[unreasonable]

edit: translated version at M4T

+1, Thanks for that link, I was looking for this just the other day... forgotten how good M4T is.

[chris455]

Can't imagine how adjustible range may help while guns are convergenced on fixed range...

If the Germans designed the Revi without range adjustment, (clearly this is so) I am good with it, but remember that British and Amercian sights typically did have a range adjustment, even with fixed convergence.