[quote="General Tso":044ee]...it could be worse: Evidently, the Wehrmacht liked to put scopes (standard and infrared) on the StG 44...

[url:044ee]http://www.geocities.com/pizzatest/panzerfaust7.htm#stgw44[/url:044ee]

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Can you imagine the whining?[/quote:044ee]

that infra-red scope sound like BS

If the Germans developed this then both teh US and the USSR would have copied it earlier, just as they borrowed from the V-2 and the swept wing of the Me-262.
The first US night scope was developed by Vietnam, so I guess either the Germans lied or they did a good job destroying all traces of this scope so that neither the Americans nor the Russians copied them by the Korean War.