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I was looking around on Tankzone and saw this panther night vision upgrade. It looks really cool and it has wires leading to it. Does anyone know exactly how this upgrade works?? Does it light up or what?

http://www.tankzone.co.uk/cart/hl_panther.htm

i have had a look at them, the ir lights are fitted with leds, i expect and hope you will get fitting diagrams also,what i can remember about the history, of the german ir program. this set is project 2, experts are unsure if the three,units were ever used in combat ,there seems to be no written or photo evidence.of use. but a tank crew man of the lssah said, that thay had been used,in the last weeks of the war to hit a sherman unit at night ,thay know project 1 [swallow] was used because because of photos, i have the swallow on my late panther , but the project 2, looks nice,

OK so when you put these on your panther I assume you would be able to turn on the LED lights? Thanks for the responce. Great for running my tank at night....ha

There is a photo of an early G in ambush camo in Speilbergers Panther book. This has the FG1250 fitted to the cupola. Also a line drawing of the unit and a couple of detail photos.

I went into night vision stuff fitted to the Panther a few years back and couldn't find anything about it being fitted in either the driver or gunners position in the field, though the "Falke" as it was known was fitted to the left hand vision slit on some 251's

The idea was that the tank driver operated blind under instruction from the commander. Targets could be aquired up to around 400 metres and the target was aligned with the sighting marks in the viewfinder and the angle of elevation transferred mechanically to a dial indicator in the turret. The gunner could then adjust the gun to the reading on the dial and push the big red button marked "goodbye Sherman".

The fact that the Panther in the pic is in ambush and the trees in the background are still in almost full leaf would put the photo around mid September '44. (?) No visible numbers or other id on it.

Theres loads of photos of Panther 801 on the net and that has one fitted, but its a fake and judging by some of the restoration errors on the rest of the tank I wouldn't like to say how accurate it is.

Peter