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Having boresighted AT guns gives you a small but (IMO) very significant bonus to hit; I find that first shot hits are the norm at 300-500 meters against an enemy tank on a TRP.

Of course, the most efficient use of boresighting probably does not involve boresighting a location 40 meters in front of the AT gun... smile.gif

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  • 3 weeks later...

What makes me slightly upset is the poor (wrong!) use of the word "boresighted" in CM.

The actual (real life) meaning of the word is that the aim and hit points coincide at that distance.

Since the gun sight normally is positioned at the side of the barrel there will be a slight offset between the line of aim (sight) and the line of fire. When boresighting the line of aim (not adjusted for distance) is set to coincide with the central line through the barrel at some range, typically half of max range but can be done at any range. Thereby the gun barrel won't point in a significantly different direction than the gun sight.

In CM the word "Boresighted" should be replaced by "pre measured distance", as is real life SOP when setting up an ATG firing position unless the enemy is within range immediately. (Been there, done that!)

Cheers

Olle

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