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The FG 1250 or Fahr- und Zielgerät FG 1250 (driving and aiming device FG 1250) was a German active infrared night-vision device mounted on tanks and other armored vehicles. It was developed by Ing Gaertner of the German optics company Carl Zeiss AG beginning in 1941. [1] According to other sources, it was developed by AEG and produced by Ernst ...
The ZG 1229 Vampir weighed 2.26 kilograms (5.0 lb) and was fitted with lugs on the StG 44 at C.G. Haenel in Suhl, the weapons production facility.As well as the sight and infrared spotlight, there was a wooden-cased battery for the light weighing 13.59 kilograms (30.0 lb), and a second battery fitted inside a gas mask container to power the image converter.
This was in response to Allied night fighters accompanying the bomber streams to hunt the German night fighters while they hunted the bombers. The idea was to prevent Allied fighters attacking the German fighters from behind. Neptun 1 - FuG 216: A small number of experimental sets fitted to Fw 190 and Bf 109. Wavelength 1.3 to 1.8 meters.
Night vision technology prior to the end of World War II was later described as Generation 0. [5] Night-vision devices were introduced in the German Army as early as 1939 [citation needed] and were used in World War II. AEG started developing its first devices in 1935.
Nuremberg in 1471 [1] held a census, to be prepared in case of a siege. Brandenburg-Prussia in 1683 began to count its rural population. The first systematic population survey on the European continent was taken in 1719 in the Mark Brandenburg of the Kingdom of Prussia, in order to prepare the first general census of 1725.
German searchlights of the Second World War were used to detect and track enemy aircraft at night. They were used in three main sizes, 60, 150 and 200 centimetres. After the end of the First World War, German development of searchlights was effectively stopped by the Treaty of Versailles, it resumed in 1927. At the outset of the war ...
Production units were not ready until the spring of 1945, and were not installed in German aircraft until April, just before the war ended. Ju 88G-6 with FuG-240 behind the plywood radome nose. The Berlin N-2 model was installed primarily in Junkers Ju 88G-6 night-fighters, behind a plywood radome. This so greatly reduced drag compared to the ...
The Soviet-German population grew despite deportations and forced labor during the war; in the 1939 Soviet census the German population was 1.427 million. By 1959 it had increased to 1.619 million. [188] The calculations of the West German researcher Gerhard Reichling do not agree to the figures from the Soviet archives.