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An even more ingenious American design was the Guiberson periscope rifle, which featured a pop-out stock with a built-in periscope. [28] The Dutch designed the M.95 Loopgraafgeweer (Trench gun) based on the Dutch Mannlicher service rifle. It saw service with the Royal Netherlands Army from 1916 until World War II. [29]
The periscope rifle also saw use during the war – this was an infantry rifle sighted by means of a periscope, so the shooter could aim and fire the weapon from a safe position below the trench parapet. During World War II (1939–1945), artillery observers and officers used specifically manufactured periscope binoculars with different mountings.
M.95 Loopgraafgeweer ("trench gun"), a Periscope rifle version of the M.95, designed in 1916 for trench warfare. Around 1930, new models (Nieuw Model) of the No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 were introduced. In 1936 a shorter No.5 carbine model was introduced. [18] It was a Geweer M95 cut down to carbine size.
This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.
A Sturmgewehr 44 with 90 degree Krummlauf The Krummlauf on display at the Bundeswehr Museum of German Defense Technology in Koblenz, Germany.. The Krummlauf (English: "curved barrel") is a bent barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) rifle developed by Germany in World War II.
The M75 has an almost identical layout to later U.S. armored personnel carriers: the driver sits in the front left of the hull, with the air-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed Continental AO-895-4 gasoline engine to his right. The driver is provided with an M19 infra-red night vision periscope in later models and four M17 periscopes.
Zeiss trench periscope used by Major General William Sinclair-Burgess of the First Australian Imperial Force. An agent from the British Ministry of Munitions was sent to neutral Switzerland to carry out secret negotiations with the Germans, through Swiss intermediaries, for the exchange of optical instruments for natural rubber.
During the First World War, the static movement of trench warfare and a need for protection from snipers created a requirement for loopholes both for discharging firearms and for observation. [1] Often a steel plate was used with a "key hole", which had a rotating piece to cover the loophole when not in use.