Soviet gun sight

[Chris65]

Hey all;  Coming over from CLOD where I could adjust my Hurricane sight distance and wing size to know when I was at the proper distance, do the Soviet aircraft have this ability?  I have only flown the La-5 so far and I tried using the sight increase/decrease and range adjustment but nothing happened (maybe that is just for tanks), thus with icons off it is hard to know when you are at your preferred distance to open fire (in CLOD I would set my sight to 600m/60m wing span when engaging bombers and was quite successful); last night I ended up clipping wings as I was obviously well within my 200m range.

 

Cheers;

Chris

[LukeFF]

No, it's not an adjustable sight. This should help you out with determining range (40-mil radius inner markings; 70 mils for the small deflection ring, and 105 mils for the large deflection ring.

 

Edited February 16, 2022 by LukeFF

[Chris65]

Thanks for this.  So just to make sure i understand, the 'small deflection ring',when a wing fills it tip to tip, is 40mils?, and thus my Hurricane 60m would be a bit shy of the large outer ring tip to tip.  I am not sure what the 40/1000 means but think it means 40m@1000m?

 

***never mind, now that I know what the sight is called I was able to find a video***

Edited February 16, 2022 by Chris65

[Irishratticus72]

Walter Krupinski said that many times when he and his staffel mates examined crashed Russian birds, they found that the reticles were painted on the windscreen, but then they found out that the Russians were cannibalising wrecked lend lease planes for their sights, or trying to salvage Revi sights from downed Luftwaffe planes. 

[[CPT]Crunch]

Think the book was Doolittles Raiders the First Hero's, read it a few years ago, some of the B-25 crews turned for the Soviet Union and put down in their territory, they were sent east for internment close to Iran and set to work recycling wrecked Russian combat aircraft.  The Russians didn't want to get in a row with the Japanese, and didn't really know what to do with these guys.  Everything was recycled down to the screws, even the panel fasteners were cut out and sent back to the factories to get reused, what these guys did every day for internment.  Eventually as the war progressed and Japan dropped as a threat the Russians turned a blind eye while they 'escaped' into Iran.

Edited February 16, 2022 by [CPT]Crunch

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[Chris65]

5 hours ago, Irishratticus72 said:

Walter Krupinski said that many times when he and his staffel mates examined crashed Russian birds, they found that the reticles were painted on the windscreen, but then they found out that the Russians were cannibalising wrecked lend lease planes for their sights, or trying to salvage Revi sights from downed Luftwaffe planes. 

Yes, the author of Red Star Airacobra states that he ran into a burning P39 to save the two way radio, something the Russian aircraft didn't have and which gave them a big advantage over their yak/la/mig brothers.

[Irishratticus72]

10 minutes ago, Chris65 said:

Yes, the author of Red Star Airacobra states that he ran into a burning P39 to save the two way radio, something the Russian aircraft didn't have and which gave them a big advantage over their yak/la/mig brothers.

Unless that two way radio is inside a cat, I ain't running into anything.