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Old August 11th, 2010, 05:27 AM
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Default Re: Some Giro thoughts

Hmm - you do learn something new, from time to time!

(And it looks as though these are already factored in the OOBs from a look at the R/F values)

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I would pity the poor crews trying to shoot in the dark with nothing but stadia in the night sight on a late 70's battlefield though !

Marcello, TPD-2-49 is listed as a day sight, so is the rangefinder and sight the same unit, or is it two pieces of equipment, with the operator ranging with the rangefinder, then(manually) matching the range to a superelevation mark on the gunsight, as in a non automated laser system ?
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Marcello, TPD-2-49 is listed as a day sight, so is the rangefinder and sight the same unit, or is it two pieces of equipment, with the operator ranging with the rangefinder, then(manually) matching the range to a superelevation mark on the gunsight, as in a non automated laser system ?
It is an integrated unit. You range and aim looking in the same sight. There is a video of the operation available at this page
http://www.t-72.de/html/tpd-2-49.html

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I would pity the poor crews trying to shoot in the dark with nothing but stadia in the night sight on a late 70's battlefield though !
Max vision range on the most common export (something better was available but not widely used outside USSR) T-72 night sight supposedly was 600-800 meters, with one km achievable only under optimal conditions. At those ranges you could fire APFSDS without worrying too much about ranging and superelevation.

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Thanks that is a brilliant video,

I take your point about the night sighting at <800 meters, at 1750 m/s there is not going to be that much super-elevation ! According to the page you quote it is about 50cm at max night target acquisition range.

Also there is no stadia on the night sight at all.

http://www.t-72.de/html/tpn-1-49-23.html

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