Tank gunnery training aid.

[Roddy de Normann]

Hi to all -

I remember the laser pointer well...Capt Aqualina's idea around the late 1970s, early 1980s. It was a large yellow box bolted onto the normal Chieftain main armament trainer. There was also some sort of slide show to give terrain features. This was on some sort of brushed steel laminate screen to prevent parallax through the sights.

The whole thing was about as realistic as a Mars Bar ! And about as thrilling. But then those were the days we had a fuel ban, with only a pint of diesel per vehicle per week, just enough to turn the engine. Of course all the engine seals dried out and failed when the ban was lifted - cost them twice as much repairing the vehs than the fuel costs saved.

Roddy