Stabilize view

lafeeverted · 10-30-06, 09:13 AM

IIRC, the UZO was designed not to be affected by the rolling and pitching of the boat. The binoculars on the otherhand should certainly not be locked to the horizon.

_Seth_ · 10-30-06, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by lafeeverted

IIRC, the UZO was designed not to be affected by the rolling and pitching of the boat. The binoculars on the otherhand should certainly not be locked to the horizon.

Was there some kind of gyro on the uboats in wwII to control the gyro during rolling and pitching?

Sailor Steve · 10-30-06, 11:15 AM

No.

If anything was stabilized, it had to be done with weights, which is not a solution. The first ships to use gyroscopic stabilization on the firing systems were US battleships, and those not until 1945.

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lafeeverted Chief Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 329 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	IIRC, the UZO was designed not to be affected by the rolling and pitching of the boat. The binoculars on the otherhand should certainly not be locked to the horizon.