p-51

[bustr]

Karnak,

For all I know it's you and me baby.

I'm working with a blue thingy sight that is all of the rings from the French OPL 38. Someone was a genius before they surrendered. The thing is gigantic and looks like a ship's wheel. But, if you create a gunsight of rings and a center dot based on the OPL 38 primary partitions starting at 140Mil. You end up with a 4RAD ring guide that follows the "angle off" lead guides from "Bag the Hun".

I've been testing it in the MA and it has enabled some interesting snap shots I usually miss. Makes me think the French had more input into Russian fighter optics than allowing them to copy their OPL 31 which became the PAK1. After all the Hispano-Suiza 12Y was the source for the Kilmov engines along with how the cannon was mounted. And French fighters used HUB cannon to which their gunsight reticles would be developed for.

[The Fugitive]

I have his set, but use one that looks a lot like his avatar 

[SirNuke]

where can I find the gunsight pacK?

[bustr]

The new Historic Pack will be up as always in the "Aircraft and Vehicles" forum when it's released.

I'm updating some of the gunsights with an alternate visual look while eliminating some that I now know are the wrong size due to more recent research. I've decided the Type 98 MK2 in the A6m5 really has to be 120Mil instead of 100Mil for the structures to be usable. And I'm thinking about an "Extras" folder with dots and an assortment of my "Blue Thingy" proof of concept sights. You may have seen one I posted up for bozon that I was setting up rocket aids to reflect the wider mount points under the Mossi's wings.

With the new engine Hitech is developing, I'm wondering if it will effect how the gunsight mask area will render the bitmaps we call gunsights. Maybe a more realistic point focused light source effect and active rheostat in the tiny window inside of our game window. Once you see the lamp turned on in a real gunsight, it's maddening attempting to duplicate that in the game. 

[bangsbox]

I use your historical gun sights too bustr. I love them and I have the correct gunsight on ever plane I fly. <S> you contribution to the game make it that much better for me.

[bustr]

Type 98 Model 1 (Mk2) is 144Mil with 9 divisions of 16Mil. Performed some wing Mil calcs at 200, 300, 600yds against P40, F6f, B25, B17 and B29. It was the only way to make the 9 divisions be useable at ww2 combat ranges. Pretty much makes it a 4RAD reticle.

That's why in the youtube films it doesn't fit on the reflector plate. The large size was to account for bombers later in the war. The red orange filter you see flipped on from the white reticle is a night filter as there is an amber sun screen that can be lifted up while the day white reticle is used to keep the white reticle from disappearing in bright light. Another use would be with white clouds around. That became a problem for the K14 white reticle fixed and movable against the tropical cloud formations in the pacific.