Talk:Lotfernrohr 7

Really?
I was always under the impression that the primary German bombsight was a significantlhy less-sophisticated sight that, like the British bombsights, only calculated the rate that the target moved under the aircraft and calculated the realease point based on the rate at which the angle was decreasing. It was unable to compensate for wind, pressure, and other atmospheric conditions. I am not a bombsight expert, but to me this article sounds like it was written by a typical German equipment fan trying to reduce the differences and similarities between the Norden and the Lotf 7 to "the L7 was a superior copy of the Norden that did everything the Norden did, but was more simple and easy to operate". I don't beleive this is true. It's more simple because it IS more simple, and it's easier to operate because you don't have the option of entering as much data as the Norden could calculate from. Whether this additional functionality actually made the Norden work any better, I don't venture to say, but I don't think this article, or at least the one source that is cited, is really NPOV. The British were free to use any bombsight they wanted; they used the Norden. The US was still carefully guarding the Norden in 1945. If the Germans had successfully "copied" it and "improved" it, why would they bother? You'd think they'd be redesigning the Norden to the same standard as the German bombsight.

Idumea47b (talk) 04:29, 3 August 2019 (UTC)