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Agreed, though I'm confused by the Mk. IV in the Vickers name. The periscope saw significant development in Britain, running from Mark 1 through to Mark 12. Both US and Russian/Soviet usage is based on the British development of the design, albeit at different stages of that development.
Lkchild (
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22:58, 26 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Axis use?
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The claim is unsourced. It looks shaky too. It's worded as both "from 1940" and "until 1941", which is unclear. It talks about the Tiger, which is a couple of years later. I certainly can't think of a German AFV with rotating periscopes like this.
If we define "
Gundlach periscope" as being any AFV periscope with the reverse-viewing prism, then that also implies a rotating periscope and one not in the driver's roof, only able to stare back at the turret mantlet. German tanks favoured all-round cupolas for the commander and didn't need this. I can't think of any example using this type of periscope.
Andy Dingley (
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11:04, 10 March 2015 (UTC)reply