Rifle sights
I saw a troop aboard top some kind of an armored vehicle (there was no 50 cal. up there with him) on a street in Iraq today (on TV, of course)...
Something about his rifle caught my eye, and I wonder what it is exactly.
At one point he had the weapon up to his eye, sighting over somewhere or other at something.
The thing he was looking into is what I have a question about though.
It was kind of a curved shaped thing, maybe 2" wide by 1 1/2" high and maybe 1/4" thick, seemingly built in to the barrel, right above what I guess is the breech?
I recognize that it is part of his sighting, but is it a scope type thing, or is it a cross hairs deal that he lines up with the little indicator sticking up on the tip of the barrel?
I'm just wondering if it is a lens-aided scope or a something else, and what kind of rifle that might be?
(With apologies for 1 ea. extremely non-technical parts designations)
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