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Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
I found out that the Arisaka Type 99 rifle had an antiaircraft sight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2EkEsvwARE It seems silly, using a rifle to shoot at aircraft, and I am NOT asking for it to be included. But I am curious. Was it ever used?
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
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October 19th, 2016, 08:19 PM
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
Biplane opposition during Japanese military operations in the 1930's China were not uncommon and the concept of massed Infantry fire against them would be better than nothing. More of a left over concept from WW1 than anything else.
In the 1980's the U.S. Army still had Infantry training drills on how to engage low flying A/C with rifle fire and that included jets. They just didn't bother with a fancy sight thingy.
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October 19th, 2016, 09:35 PM
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
In the 1980's in the British Army we were certainly taught to fire just about anything, and everything, against enemy Helos. On excercise I recall coys occasionally blazing away at jets with blanks (Some people liked having their men spending extra time on rifle cleaning).
The main basis of small arms fire against fixed wing aircraft these days seems to be tracer, from MG's putting off pilots.
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October 20th, 2016, 08:03 AM
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
The head-master at the engineering-school I attended was employed as a civilian in the USAF during the Korean War. He said pilots worried more when the North-Koran AA were just blazing away, than when they tried to aim and shoot.
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
Always remember the Rudyard Kipling poem, Arithmetic on the Frontier (1886)
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October 20th, 2016, 06:26 PM
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
Thanks for the link, and found it was used in volley fire against slow moving, low flying aircraft. In the SAA we were told never to shoot our rifles at airplanes, because they were most likely friendly, and because we would just be giving away our position.
But different times, different wars.
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
The Japanese also had an anti-aircraft mortar
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October 24th, 2016, 09:03 AM
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Re: Was the Type 99 Antiaircraft Sight ever Used?
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The Japanese also had an anti-aircraft mortar
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