It is yes. Pre-war attack periscopes were fitted with a combination range and AOB finder (the so-called RAOBF) that operated by stadimeter vertically and horizontally. The well-known C/2 attack periscope (large column with foot pedals) installed in wartime boats had none, only the graticule. This was both a cost-saving measure as well as due to the fact that German doctrine didn’t rely on ship data that could possibly be inaccurate, but instead used methods like matching course and speed on the surface, or plotting at maximum range using eyeballed ranges, or simple seaman’s eye estimation.
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