kBob
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Does anyone know of a combat use of red dot sights on military rifles before the US Special Forces raid on that North Vietnamese prison camp near the end of the VN War?
They used some Single Points, the unpowered models without tritium. The Single Point was an Occluded Eye scope, that is one did not actually look through it but only into it to see the dot and kept the non firing eye open and on target so it appeared to the shooter the dot was on target. The SF fabricated a means of using a hidden battery powered light .....and military duck tape...... to power the scopes used in the mission.
I have seen open source printed info on this, including a photo. Also spoke to someone involved that mentioned it.....when he saw such a scope on a Privately owned rifle of mine about 1980.
Anyone know of an earlier use?
-kBob
They used some Single Points, the unpowered models without tritium. The Single Point was an Occluded Eye scope, that is one did not actually look through it but only into it to see the dot and kept the non firing eye open and on target so it appeared to the shooter the dot was on target. The SF fabricated a means of using a hidden battery powered light .....and military duck tape...... to power the scopes used in the mission.
I have seen open source printed info on this, including a photo. Also spoke to someone involved that mentioned it.....when he saw such a scope on a Privately owned rifle of mine about 1980.
Anyone know of an earlier use?
-kBob