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IWS in NOD role reticle and L5A1 questions.
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08-30-2019 08:27 AM
# ADS
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I THINK that the mounting you show on the first photo was to enable the IWS to be fitted onto the old CONBAT (a converted and lightened MOBAT) or later lightweight WOMBAT. So the reticle pattern will be configured to that, making it an artillery type. There was no deflection mechanism with the conbat or wombat. You simply eased the barrel around to the left by pushing yourself against it - or to the right by pulling it with your body against the converted Bren sling as I recall, using the Bren or M8C to get on target. And with a BAT recoilless anti tank gun you just hoped and prayed that you got a first shot hit. Because if you didn't...............
So far as I remember, the actual dust cover and initial steel mount was a generic type., spot welded with 2 spot welds at each if the tags. But what was fixed to that steel mount was specific. But, alas, no matter what you did or what sight was mounted to it, the spot welds would still pull away under inertia. Maybe KtK and Sklppy could come in here
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