Id german optical equipment

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can anydody Id. this german optical heavy equipment? I think that it is some sort of optical AA rangefinder in
a armoured dome, but I am not sure. Sorry for the small size of the photos.

Image from ebay

Regards Sturm78.

[tommy303]

Although the soldiers are German, the equipment does not appear to be German and could be part of the Maginot line.

[jopaerya]

Hello

The armored cupola is typical for the heavy Marine Flak command post ,
underneath the armored cupola there was a 6 meter range finder .

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Thanks for your information.

Maybe I should have put the complete images from ebay.

The pictures are of a Marine Flak batterie in Kiel.

What are the guns that appear in the photos? 8.8 or 10.5cm?
Do you know the name of this type of rangefinder?

I suppose that this rangefinder on armoured dome is located on the top of a bunker, no? What type?

Regards Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Hello Sturm78

(1) gun is very very special 8.8 cm S.K.C/32 in Dopp.L.C/32
(2) range finder is a 6 meter Entfernungsmesser
(3) every Naval flak command bunker ( Leitstand ) could be equiped with this armored cupola .

Regards Jos

[Cool-E]

The small optic they are sitting behind is a 12x60 flak binocular

[Erik E]

I suppose that this rangefinder on armoured dome is located on the top of a bunker, no? What type?

This device was actually not rated as "armoured", as its actually quite thin... Only works as weather & shrapnell protection and would never survive a direct hit from any artillery.
As far as I know, only on the Fl series of Marine Regelbauten had these, only name I ever came across is "Deckenschützschild für Kommandogeräte xx"
Here is a photo of the last remaining in Norway, further there is atleast one remaining in Poland, one in Denmark and one in sothern France that I know of....

Rgds
Erik E

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

I found on Ebay these images of a Flak Batterie (I suppose naval) with her optical equipment. The pictures are not very good.... but, could someone identify the battery? With respect to optical equipment, Has anyone any information?
With regard to guns I guess they are 8.8cm SK AA but...

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Nobody??

Well, I hope to have more luck with this issue. Can anyone help me with this optical equipment?

Thanks in advance. Sturm78

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

Dibujo1.JPG shows a Kinotheodolit (cinetheodolite). For comparison see here http://www.battlefield-travel.com/site/ ... /visionen/

Best regards
Torsten

[Sturm78]

Thanks for your answer, Torsten.

Kinotheodolit (cinetheodolite) ?? Which was the purpose of this device?

Regards Sturm78

[Xavier]

projector theodolite?
something like todays laser theodolites..I think
Xavier
Der Autodidakt

[Heimatschuss]

Hi sturm,

Hello,

Dibujo1.JPG shows a Kinotheodolit (cinetheodolite). For comparison see here http://www.battlefield-travel.com/site/ ... /visionen/

Best regards
Torsten

basically an enhanced version of the balloon theodolite you had here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4&start=18. While balloon theodolites are for observing static or slowly moving objects at high elevation angles cinetheodolites are for observing quickly moving objects at high angles such as planes. For this the target tracking is done by two observers, one for the vertical component and the other one for the horizontal component. The tracking wheels are much bigger in the cinetheodolite because of the higher angular velocity of the target object. Registration of the angles is mostly done photographically in the cinetheodolite while manually was sufficient for the balloon theodolite. If I'm informed correctly there are cinetheodolite versions where the registration could even be triggered remotely to ensure that both theodolites registered their angles at exactly the same time. From the observations of the cinetheodolite you can compute the flight path of a plane, birds, a starting space rocket etc and from that you learn the speed of the target for example.

Best regards
Torsten

[Sturm78]

Hi Torsten,

Thank you very much for your information. Very good explanation!!

Regards Sturm78

[MT-LB]

The other variation was called the Drucktheodolit - looks almost exactly the same as the pictured Kinotheodolit but lacking the optical lens - instead it had a printing mechanism inside and did a print of the coordinates the 2 observers adjusted while keeping track of the object in the air.

Hi sturm,

Hello,

Dibujo1.JPG shows a Kinotheodolit (cinetheodolite). For comparison see here http://www.battlefield-travel.com/site/ ... /visionen/

Best regards
Torsten

basically an enhanced version of the balloon theodolite you had here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4&start=18. While balloon theodolites are for observing static or slowly moving objects at high elevation angles cinetheodolites are for observing quickly moving objects at high angles such as planes. For this the target tracking is done by two observers, one for the vertical component and the other one for the horizontal component. The tracking wheels are much bigger in the cinetheodolite because of the higher angular velocity of the target object. Registration of the angles is mostly done photographically in the cinetheodolite while manually was sufficient for the balloon theodolite. If I'm informed correctly there are cinetheodolite versions where the registration could even be triggered remotely to ensure that both theodolites registered their angles at exactly the same time. From the observations of the cinetheodolite you can compute the flight path of a plane, birds, a starting space rocket etc and from that you learn the speed of the target for example.

Best regards
Torsten