Gun camera
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Gun cameras are cameras used primarily in aircraft to help measure tactical effectiveness. These cameras are triggered by the firing of a weapon, hence the name.
The use of gun cameras first became common for gunnery training in the 1920s, though examples were used during World War I by the British Royal Flying Corps. A special version of the standard Lewis machine gun was manufactured as a camera gun. During World War II, as the Luftwaffe did with the German Robot II camera, gun cameras were commonly used on operational aircraft to record kills of enemy aircraft. Some of this footage survives to this day and is often the source for stock footage in World War II movies, TV shows or video games.
The term guncam may also refer to software that records video game footage, it is often triggered by the firing of a weapon in a way similar to the original guncams of World War II. Some popular examples of this software are and .
A "gun camera" may also refer to a video camera mounted on a gun, with a point of aim indicator, typically a reticle in the form of a crosshair or a red dot, to show in the video where the gun is being pointed.
Current gun cameras on hand guns are usually located at the top of the barrel, limiting the users view. Police officers have changed the design to locate it below the barrel, and are attempting to make a gun camera start recording when an officer draws the weapon.[1]
Gallery[]
A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 being shot down by a Republic F-105 Thunderchief at the conclusion of a dogfight between the two planes, taken from the F-105's gun camera
Gun camera photo taken by a United States Navy F9F Panther fighter from the aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32) as its pilot shoots down a Chinese MiG-15 over North Korea near the Yalu River during the Korean War (1950–1953).
The G-10 gun camera port above the nose of a Hawker Hunter F.74S
References[]
- ^ "Police departments test gun-mounted cameras". PoliceOne. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
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- The Lt. Col. Jack Bradley Collection, no. 2 - Gun Camera Footage, from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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