Gunsights?

[Lucky13]

I just watched this video and I thought, is that gunsight correct?

 

[Lucky13]

View: https://youtu.be/QbeAYGKmiSo?si=WNm2cg_G8I6lmVtW

 

[Crimea_River]

Yes. It's for use with the Sidewinder missiles.

 

[Lucky13]

Yes. It's for use with the Sidewinder missiles.

I thought as much!

 

[Wurger]

I just watched this video and I thought, is that gunsight correct?

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According to the AI, yes it is correct.

 

[Lucky13]

According to the AI, yes it is correct.

Well, yeah....

 

[Airframes]

Only for use with AIM9L missiles at very low level, in order to be able to execute a rapid forced landing, as the missile exhaust plume has a tendency to set fire to wood and fabric structures .......................

 

[VERSUCH]

Here you go from the net ,IIRC fitted to DVII .

 

[MikeMeech]

Here you go from the net ,IIRC fitted to DVII .

Hi
The same image is in the book 'British Aircraft Armament Volume 2' by R Wallace Clarke, but fitted to a different aircraft:

Other information on early WW1 Reflector sights from the same source:

They appear to have very limited use.

Mike