[HunInTheSun]

The Ta-152C and Ta-183 are fitted with this lead computing gunsight. Oleg and his team however were unable to find enough info in these, so as they are in the game they function as regular reflector sights.

Seeing the latest development with the late Spit models being fitted with the Feranti gunsight, I was wondering if a modification could be made to some of the late war german machines so that their 'decorative' gyro sight could be made functional.

I haven't found any pictures of this sight turned on, but maybe with some research this can happen.

Here are some photos of the german gyro sights for your pleasure. Note the wingspan indications of allied aircraft, similar to the practise used on it's allied counterpart.

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[Willy]

On deployment - the father of all LW board weapons books, Fritz Hahn notes some 200 were used in FW 190s and Me 262s.

Any idea if they were used in the Me-262A-1aU4? Seems like an ideal candidate for a gyro sight

[JV69_BADA]

just like the 190a8/R2 :winkit seems they were the first to test it in combat with the I/jg300) or all the 46' planes (don't they already have that one?)

[Willy]

Yes 190A8, anything that used energy fighting technique would benefit from installation of gyro sight.

From what I've tried of gyro sight in P-51 & P-80 & now late Spit, I'd say it's of little use in a turning fight, but good for boom & zoom tactics.

That's why I ask about Me-262A-1aU4 (not a '46 aircraft) as it has a low rate of fire and low ammo count. I have a pretty good hit - miss ratio with this a/c and would be interested to see if a gyro would improve it. I think it would...

[deMolay]

On deployment - the father of all LW board weapons books, Fritz Hahn notes some 200 were used in FW 190s and Me 262s.

Any idea if they were used in the Me-262A-1aU4? Seems like an ideal candidate for a gyro sight

I have ideas, yes - but not proofs...lol. Searching since days for historical proofs but there are rare informations in the net and what I found so far, is what was posted already in here. Will let you know about any news I can find...

[Guest]

this is great ! i will try to work something out so to make a gyro computing sight for german planes but we must be sure which models were factory fitted with such sights