We had the chance to take a look at one recently, and it’s pretty neat: Nydar Model 47 reflex sight with leather lens cover. It was intended as a sight for shotgun hunters, to aid in firing on flying birds (basically the same application as when used in fighter aircraft).
One of the first commercially fairly successful such sights was the Nydar Model 47, made by the Swain Nelson company and introduced in 1945. Up to that point, though, they were fairly bulky and fragile, though, and so the market for reflex sights on small arms didn’t really show up until the end of WWII. The first reflex-type gunsights were mounted in fighter aircraft in late World War I, and by World War II they were standard equipment. When properly mounted on a gun, that reticle can be used for aiming. The concept of the reflex sight, in brief, is that ambient light is used to reflect a reticle pattern through a lens into a shooter’s line of sight. For example, to unlock M4A1 PIP for Russian side you need to be level 43 (40 + 3), and to unlock AK-103 for Americans you need to be level 68 (40 + 28).The basic technology for the Army’s fancy high-tech M68 CCO (the Aimpoint) was first patented all the way back in 1900. You additionally unlock enemy faction’s weapons past level 40. Level 1 – FREE – M16A4 (Carryhandle/M203)
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