The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Panoramic 3 power sight for artillery weapons. Markings: Impressed into dial plate "1488A", left side of upper prism holder "3 x 13 degrees/NIKKO/ No.21028/ JES (screw in Japanese) The sight incorprorates a levelling bubble and cross levelling bubble. This sight mounted onto a range drum, (missing) by means of a horizontal dovetail. A rotating thumb lever secured in in place. The diopter scale and azimuth scale are in bright finish. The sight body is finished in dark green/black.
This sight could be used on the 70mm Type 92 howitzer and on the 75mm Type 41 field gun.
Japanese panoramic gun sight with magnification of 3 power, fixed focus, and a field of view of 13 degrees. Markings: Impressed into dial plate "499B", left side of upper prism holder "3 x 13 degrees
Artillery dial sight, 13 degrees x 3 magnification with cross level and flat bar dovetail guide. Numbers on azimuth scale are in arabic,while those on the dovetail correspond to '333-334' - possibly
Japanese type 93 periscopic sight. The sight is 210mm long. The instrument has a magnification of x 6 and a field of view of 8 degrees 20 minutes. The sight is fitted onto the weapon using a 20mm d
Japanese Type 96 telescopic machine gun sight in khaki painted canvas case. This instrument is for use with the Japanese Type 92 7.7mm Heavy Machine Gun. The sight is attached to the weapon by a dovet
Brass and steel dial sight, converted from a German Rbl.F. 16 sight, captured during the First World War. The lower viewing aperture is missing the rubber eye rest but the sight is otherwise complete.
The Rbl.F. 16 was a panorama sight (Rundblickfernrohr ) which consisted of a short telescope bent at right angles and surmounted by a moveable head. The head was fixed on a horizontal graduated table
