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Originally Posted by Archer
So, a crack crew is needed to make use of the BC, then? You made my point. Earlier you were stating that almost all American boys etc could do geewhiz stuff in their heads and were cut out for this kind of stuff...but they werent. Crack crews are invariably not the majority in any army (the term itself denotes the same)...lets talk about the average denomination, the well trained but average soldier...not the master gunner with thousands of drills under his belt.
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Compared with other optics, stereoscopic rangefinders tend to greatly de-average a gunner's performance and though they were believed to be potentially more accurate, this benefit failed to materialize more often than not.
That's the reason why they were replaced by the more user-friendly coincidence type starting with the
M48A2C. On a sidenote, the French went for a coincidence type for their AMX-30, and the Germans for a dual-mode (stereoscopic or coincidence) type for their Leopard 1.