Binocular icon - what's up with that? ...

[burroughs]

For quite some time now i have been wondering what does that tiny binocular icon in the unit box mean?

In my current "Danube Front '85" AFNORTH: the Battle for Schleswik-Holstein" MOD 3.3 V.1.3 PBEM game as the Warsaw Pact it mostly appears in the right upper corner. I thought that it means either a signature that a certain unit or subunit is in in sight of an enemy element or I used to think at first that it was a recon unit.

Now my latest theory is that it perhaps is supposed to mean that a particular unit is valid for spotting for indirect artillery and air support which would be a loop back to the very first hypothesis of mine.

I have just read both manuals - the basic one and that for the modern campaigns series - and either overlooked or didn't find a clue regarding that phenomenon.

What do the old hands say then?