Irish-contract rifles were also made this way on both counts. IIRC, earlier production rifles from the second South African contract with FN had the rear sights and grenade sights graduated in yards rather than metres. had the long sight, and the Rhodesian manual has photos of a rifle with one. Some of the parts kits that came into the U.S.

Note that the ladder corresponds to the long sight's at the given ranges. They are for the 65mm Anti-Char (STRIM 65) rifle grenade. PS: here's a link I've found but without specific information. Is it possible to determine which type of grenade sight was most commonly seen on Rhodesian used R1 rifles? (I am inclined to go with the 'short' type shown in the middle above based on the pictures but that is just my opinion based on pictures which I've seen in the internet). '75mm' version which I suppose was for 75mm 'Energa' AT rifle grenadeĬould anyone verify if my line of thinking about the sights types is correct?

'short' version without any markings (I think it could have been 'standarized' version at some point for only one type of rifle grenade, in my opinion 'short' grenade sights were most common variant used by RSF)

'long' version with two scales for 32Z (originally French STRIM40) and 65AC (originally French STRIM65 which other name in South Africa and Rhodesia was 28R) I would like to add my question to the topic of R1 rifle grenade sights as I've seen few versions of those sights, here is a picture from Arizona Response Systems shop showing three different versions, all versions shown are scaled in meters:įrom what I see there are 3 different types in regarad with construction of the sight and related markings on them, from the left:

Fn fal grenade launcher