I owned one of these years ago and sold it, regretted it ever since. I thought they were discontinued and then they popped back up recently, still listed on Hensoldt's site. I love this scope! Pretty antiquated by today's standards with CW non-zero stop turrets but my plan is to try and re-purpose it as a ELR scope. I think it's going to work!
Probably one of the only scopes to use an actual flourite (CaF2) element, but never confirmed. The story I have heard a few times now is that Henny engineers had the SAM version (the electronic $12k hud scope) and needed to go 72mm to get enough light into it to offset the extra elements added by the SAM system. Then someone said "let's take all the electronics off and sell it as a low-light scope".
What's funny is when I bought the original scope I had in 2011 (it was Zeiss at the time) it came in the same box, same manual, same accessories, etc. as the new one. Even though Henny has gone through Cassadian, Airbus, and now KRR it still seems to be in the exact same building in Wetzlar as it was. Basically still in the Zeiss Sport Optics building.
Probably one of the only scopes to use an actual flourite (CaF2) element, but never confirmed. The story I have heard a few times now is that Henny engineers had the SAM version (the electronic $12k hud scope) and needed to go 72mm to get enough light into it to offset the extra elements added by the SAM system. Then someone said "let's take all the electronics off and sell it as a low-light scope".
What's funny is when I bought the original scope I had in 2011 (it was Zeiss at the time) it came in the same box, same manual, same accessories, etc. as the new one. Even though Henny has gone through Cassadian, Airbus, and now KRR it still seems to be in the exact same building in Wetzlar as it was. Basically still in the Zeiss Sport Optics building.
