DEVELOPMENT OF SIGHTUNIT, XM43.

Abstract

The XM43 sightunit was designed to provide a relatively simple on-carriage indirect-fire sight for the Littlejohn rocket launcher. The XM43 sightunit consists of an M62AK=C elbow telescope, and M9A1 telescope adapter, a modified M79 telescope mount, a cross-leveling mechanism, anc a dovetail-mount assembly. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1957
Accession Number
AD0491164

Entities

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Carriages
  • Indirect Fire
  • Launchers
  • Leveling
  • Rocket Launchers
  • Telescopes

Readers

  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects