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Gunsights

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KellyB

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I've always wondered why there appear to be two gunsights in the P47 and the P-40's.

One seems to be the reflector sight, and the other, off to one side, appears t be fixed?

Anyone please enlighten me.
 
Many warbirds had a "mechanical" gunsight as a backup.
Every German bird for instance had both the reflector sight plus the "sting" for the case there was trouble with reflector sight.
 
By contrast, the British gyro gunsight had a built-in backup: it could project a fixed reticule on to the reflector glass instead of the gyro-linked moveable reticule.
 
So the fixed sight off to the side was just a backup and not some other way of sighting like for bombing.

Thanks for the enlightenment, guys. I should have asked earlier on. Tried scouring the web and didn't find anything there.

Another mystery solved!
 
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