Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] tank periscope optics

[hal@midgardtechsol.net]

Title: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] tank periscope optics

On Wed, 10 April 2002, David Buchner wrote

[sorry, Andre -- I forgot to check the recipient, and my mail doesn't go to the list automatically...]

At 05:33 -0400 4/9/02, AndrePevestorf@aol.com wrote:

> I yust
> remember the special periscope optic in a tank (BMP-1 or
> T-55)
> my
> recollection says that this prism are very heavy but also easy to
> change... so I wondering if it could be possible to use some of that
> for a sub...
>
> but the first question is:
>
> are there any legal ways to get such army stuff second hand
> ?
> ( I know in
> former times it was possible to get a russian gun for a bottle of
> wisky but thats not the kind of deals I´m looking
> for..)

And WHY NOT??

I remember Ax-Man, a cool surplus store in St. Paul MN used to have a bin of prisms I think were supposedly from tanks. What a dummy; I have no idea why I didn't buy any. They were probably like $5. Ax-man actually had the whole tank periscopes for a while.