Remote controlled MG optic

[Dufleuve]

Hello,

I recently acquired an optical device that is described as a sight for the remote controlled MG on Stug or Hetzer.
Pantherv has a similar one for sale on e-stand.

Does anyone have docs/pictures of these devices ?
They seem to be built from bits and pieces.

Thanks
Pascal

[mlespaul]

Hello,

I recently acquired an optical device that is described as a sight for the remote controlled MG on Stug or Hetzer.
Pantherv has a similar one for sale on e-stand.

Does anyone have docs/pictures of these devices ?
They seem to be built from bits and pieces.

Thanks
Pascal

hey Pascal!
Yes, It's basically a ZF 3 x 8 that's been pieced together with periscopic parts. I have tons of pictures of it, both assembled and disassembled, but this will get you started:







from below

from above




Also: http://pzfahrer.net/hetzermgs.html

[Dufleuve]

Nice pictures. You really are the guru of the optics

On the pzfahrer site, the optic seems a bit different. Both the head and bottom are squared. But that one has been picked up from a Stug, according to the caption.
Different model in hetzer and Stug ?

Cheers

[Stew]

Hetzer

Hi Dufleuveand mlespaul, interesting posts !!!
BTW I was at the Bovington Tank Museum (England) in March this year and I saw the StuG and Hetzer .I noted the shields but did not realise that they were part of a remote contolled machine gun assembly.
I attach a pic of the Hetzer. The picture of me standing in front of the Hetzer helps illustrate the size and scale.

[mlespaul]

yeah, actually, that optic you see in pzfahrer is not the MG ZF 'Rundumsfeuer' like we are talking about here, but is actually a ZF 1128. This ZF 1128 is seen a lot in the post-war Swiss G-13s as standard issue.

I think the ZF 1128 was a late-war manufacture. They often show up with the the three-letter codes on them. It was a bit more crudely, cheaper constructed, and many of them ended up after the war being re-used by the Swiss in the G-13s. So there might have been some confusion when the article was written at the time, because I don't think they were in the Stugs, unless somone else can shed light on that.

See Horst Scheibert's "Hetzer (Jagdpanzer 38 (t) und G-13) in the back there is a G-13 section and you'll see the ZF 1128 poking out of the postwar observation dome and also from inside the cabin.

somewhere else on this board I think there is a post on the ZF 1128, I think I put up pictures there, on it.

[me6_130]

Hello,

I wasn't sure, so I've had a look at the Shadock list, and there are at least 2 Stug's with the remote MG34 shield on them: one in Slovakia, another in Latrun (Israel) and seems a third in the Golan Heights.

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_StuG_StuH.pdf

Carles