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Originally Posted by George Hopp
"My squadron leader and I had installed (for trial) a new aiming device ...
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....according to Schroeder, not only was the EZ 42 more accurate, it also enabled the 190s to open up from much greater range..
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My Staffelkapitän and myself had volunteered to trial a new gunsight in combat. This was a revolutionary gyroscopic device that was instantly able to compute the required angle of deflection and made it possible to open fire at long range with an accuracy that the classic Revi 16 B could not match. In my own case the results were impressive. I blazed away at "my" bomber long before I had closed to the usual range......".