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105kw · April 22, 2025, 10:22 PM

The lead computing gun sight was built by the British, really late 1943. It was called GM1.
We built the K-14 , a copy of the GM1, and by the second half of 1944 were putting it into Europeon theater USAAF fighters. P-51, P-47, and P-38s.
The Pacific lagged a bit, but the AAF, and Navy had gyro lead computing sights.
So who had the best gun sights, our Air Forces, and the British. The K-14 was called the Ace maker.

April 22, 2025, 10:22 PM	#248
105kw Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2017 Location: Columbia Basin Washington Posts: 514	The lead computing gun sight was built by the British, really late 1943. It was called GM1. We built the K-14 , a copy of the GM1, and by the second half of 1944 were putting it into Europeon theater USAAF fighters. P-51, P-47, and P-38s. The Pacific lagged a bit, but the AAF, and Navy had gyro lead computing sights. So who had the best gun sights, our Air Forces, and the British. The K-14 was called the Ace maker.