The original night vision shooter…
(Hey don’t laugh, it was crazy advanced for 1945)
My homie Ian over at Forgotten Weapons got his hands on an M3 Carbine up for grabs at the Rock Islands Auctions company.
At 34-pounds, it would take a M1 carbine and turn it into a primitive night-fighter gun that would see service at the tail end of WWII and during Korea.
We had a few infrared scopes sitting in the armory in San Diego back in the mid ’60’s. Massive things, and suicide to shoot. The cross-hairs in the Soviet PU sniper scope were treated with something or other that fluoresced when exposed to infrared. All they had to do was hold on the bottom of the little blur and squeeze.