Author Topic: P40 Metal Gunsight (Read 524 times)

Sarge1 · « **on:** July 05, 2002, 08:16:55 AM »

what is the second gunsight In the P40.. any one Know what itis or was used for thanks....

EvilDingo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2002, 08:28:01 AM »

It's a dive bomb site.

RRAM · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2002, 08:44:31 AM »

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Originally posted by EvilDingo
It's a dive bomb site.

no, it is a GUN sight. Just not an optical one.

Early WWII planes used primitive metal ring-and-bead sights instead of optical gunsites. When the optical ones were used, the old ring and bead ones were still retained just in case the optical failed for any reasons.

EvilDingo · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2002, 10:33:06 AM »

Shrug. It's what HiTech said in the MA when someone asked.

RRAM · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2002, 10:39:20 AM »

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Originally posted by EvilDingo
Shrug. It's what HiTech said in the MA when someone asked.

think on it from this perspective. The P40B (a plane with no bomb rack at all), has this ring-and-bear sight, as well as the P40E.

What do you need a dive bomb sight for, if you have no bombs to carry?

it was a gun sight

Wotan · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2002, 10:43:22 AM »

lol ramm you making to much sense let him divebomb with it

Staga · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2002, 10:56:02 AM »

Yeppers; Here's Finnish dive-bomber (J/K!):

EvilDingo · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2002, 11:03:34 AM »

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lol ramm you making to much sense let him divebomb with it

I don't really care enough about it either way to argue. But, your sentence has absolutely hideous grammar. It's shocking. Besides your obvious lack of talent in the formation and structure of sentences, I think you should try it before you knock it. Whether or not HiTech said that in the MA or whether or not it's even a dive bomb sight doesn't matter. The sight works for me. So I naturally assumed that what I read in the chat buffer was true.

RRAM · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2002, 11:25:28 AM »

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Originally posted by EvilDingo

The sight works for me

so would the optical one.

AFter all, both are pointing to the same point

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2002, 01:41:35 PM »

Its simply a mechanical backup sight for the guns in the event that the reflector sight bulb burns out or the electrical system is not working. Spares in the forward bases, early in the war, weren't very plentiful.

MiG

SKurj · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2002, 06:29:17 PM »

Sarge1... I don't think the majority of the above posts were directed towards you... just a petty squabble between dingo and rram +)

SKurj

EvilDingo · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2002, 06:45:16 PM »

Yes sarge1, I am clearly the idiot. Had you bothered to read my post in it's entirety, you would have seen that I was quoting Wotan.

Anyway, I wasn't squabbling with RRAM. I was squabbling with Wotan.

Wotan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2002, 06:51:15 PM »

dont squabble with me because you dont know what you're talking about.

I think ram explained why.

EvilDingo · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2002, 08:32:23 PM »

Look, I'm not arguing that it's a gunsight. I think I explained why I thought what I did. Now, the reason this thread is unsually long is because you felt the need to belittle me with your stupid run-on sentence with no punctuation.

The P-40 metal sight is a gunsight.

OSCAR · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2002, 09:21:06 PM »

no, it's a telletubbie sight ,,you dont need to lead em much because they're so slow. Hence no need for fancy lightbulb stuff.

BTW u guys squabble about the most stupid chit.