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Originally Posted by Jaws2002
Are we going to be able to use the whole ranging/aiming system while we man the guns, for those guns that had it, or the gunsight will be simply fixed with the barell?
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As a sidenote: I was in the Norwegian Coastal Artillery in 1988-1990 and we had the Bofors 40mm/L60 as pictured. Even then the sights was fixed with the barrel. We would (sometimes) get info over radio from radarstations as to where planes was supposed to emerge from, but mostly there would be no information at all.
I think the 40mm/L60 was phased out a very short time after I quit in 1990, but the slightly more advanced Bofors 40mm/L70 lingered one for another 10 years or so.
I remember once on an exersize we got message over radio "the area is now clear of enemy planes!" and as the last word was spoken 4 'enemy' Vought A-7 Corsairs flew so low over our cannon that we allmost had to duck. So much for Norwegian air defence radars...
Skarphol