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Offline Suave1

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Black crosshairs in bombsight at night
« on: November 25, 2001, 07:28:00 AM »
It's pretty much impossible to do levelbombing at night in the MA becuase of this. Did the RAF really use black crosshairs in their bombsights for nighttime bombing ?
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Black crosshairs in bombsight at night
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2001, 09:15:00 PM »
Same for naval gun sights at night.  Impossible to track anything coming in then.  Surely the night / bad weather gun sights had some sort of illlumination control, didn't they?
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Black crosshairs in bombsight at night
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2001, 06:41:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Suave1:
It's pretty much impossible to do levelbombing at night in the MA becuase of this. Did the RAF really use black crosshairs in their bombsights for nighttime bombing ?

I read a tip recently to make things easier bombing at night.  When in the bombsight, bring up the clipboard so that you can see the cross hairs, and place the point of your cursor at the point they cross.  Then, with the clipboard out of the way, you have your cursor left pointing exactly the right spot!   :)
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