A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. Sights are equipped with a referencing pattern mounted in a focally appropriate p
View through a 4× telescopic sight
Leupold and Stevens Mark 6 scope with variable magnification X3-X18, mounted on an M24 SWS
German-made ZF Ajack 4×90 (4×38 in modern terminology) for the World War II-pattern Swedish Mauser m/1941 sniper rifle.
A Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Bean Station with a Confederate sharpshooter shooting a Whitworth rifle equipped with a Wm. Malcolm long-tube scope.
Iron sights are a system of physical alignment markers used as a sighting device to assist the accurate aiming of ranged weapons such as firearms, airguns, crossbows, and bows, or less commonly as a p
Telescopic sight
…Telescopic sights are used with all types of systems that require magnification in addition to reliable visual aiming, as opposed to non-magnifying iron sights, reflector (reflex) sights, holographic sights or laser sights, and are most commonly found on long-barrel firearms, particularly rifles, usually via…
Sight picture through iron sights of an H&K MP5 submachine gun. The annular shroud around the front post sight is aligned with the rear peep sight to ensure the firearm is properly trained.
Aerial gunnery iron ring sight on a GAU-21 that allows for compensating for the roll-pitch-yaw of an aircraft.
Spiderweb-type (low level) anti-aircraft sight on an MG 34.
Guttersnipe sight on the ASP pistol