[release] IJN periscope v 1.0

[keltos01]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Very nice pic through periscope

I would say that it is clear by now that the picture you used is of a US periscope. Wether japanese submarines used them or not, is the question, but I'm inclined to believe that there would be some differences.

Are the numbers in japanese normally written as in our language, or do they use special symbols?

They used symbols all right, not roman numbers or arabic ones for that matter i think..

I've asked a couple friends in Japan to see what they could dig up at the Kure museum . wait and see..

I wonder where all the data recovered by the US went ? the periscopes and all the studies of japane subs ?

I know they had the Ordnance Bureau analyse them, but hey since i'm in europe it's kindo hard getting access to whatever declassified material there might be...

keltos

and it seems that the scope I got my hands on could be post-war as fleet subs' periscopes never show the horizontal line.