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Originally Posted by Pisces
BTW, the Germans did have special functionality in some of their periscopes ('Feste Linie im Raum', tr.: 'fixed line in space') to keep a gyrocompass-synchronised vertical line in their view. ( Link)
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Could somebody translate that please? This is the first time I've ever heard of a gyro-stabilized
anything on a WW2 submarine, and I'd like to know exactly how this thing worked.