I got irritated at my gunner on one of the earlier ranges because he kept telling me that the sights were off, but I had zeroed the tank myself, so I knew better. So I told the turret mechanics that all three of the gunner’s sights needed to be purged (Recharged with nitrogen) on a day when we were scheduled to fire. The tank was already on line when the gunner got there and asked where his sights were. I told him that they were being checked out in the shop and that I would fire the course from my position. This wasn’t ordinarily done as I remember it, and we might have been pulled off the range if the controllers knew what I had in mind. The TC on an M60A1 only has one sight for the main gun, which is actually the optical coincidence range finder, and the controls for operating the turret are not nearly as good as the ones the gunner has. The gunner also controls the ballistic computer, a mechanical analog computer that changes gun elevation to compensate for the ballistic characteristics of the type of round selected. Anyway, I hit every target, dead center. The gunner had very little to say about the sights after that.
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