I picked up an unusual pair of binoculars and am having trouble identifying them. I think they may be Russian or something. There was only one number on them, 95050041.
Need Help Identifying Unusual Binoculars
I picked up an unusual pair of binoculars and am having trouble identifying them. I think they may be Russian or something. There was only one number on them, 95050041.
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You have any idea what the switch there is supposed to be for? Have you found a battery compartment?
It says on and off
here is a pic
Looks intriguingly like a laser designator. Check this out and look at the LRF BD-1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311958246_Laser_radar_Historical_prospective-from_the_East_to_the_West
Very interesting... It does look like it kind of. I was thinking it was some sort of early NVG but I does not have room for any Russian tubes that I know of.
I wonder if these were for some vehicle or something...
OP here just more Pics
Get a picture of that connector port
Will post more pics, it has text on it
https://russian-electronics.com/products/wires-connectors/:2rm14kpn4sh1a1
It's probably a weird ass Russian only fackin connector. Bet it's for power cause the battery was probably fuck huge and a backpack (because it's fucking Russian).
Yeah lol the battery compartment is huge. The only other identifying mark I could find was this faded logo.
OP, what does the bottom look like? Are there features for attaching it to something or is it just supposed to be handheld?
Doesn't look like it is meant to mount to something. I think it must be for handheld use. I bought it from some art hoe in Washington DC off of craigslist for $20 bux so it may be possible that some parts have been changed but I highly doubt it. If anything it is incomplete and missing something...
>Doesn't look like it is meant to mount to something. I think it must be for handheld use. I bought it from some art hoe in Washington DC off of craigslist for $20 bux so it may be possible that some parts have been changed but I highly doubt it. If anything it is incomplete and missing something...
LMAO you bought some old crypies homework. Those are probably analyzed Cold War samples that got relabeled in English
>that got relabeled
where do you see any signs of "relabeling" in the photos?
Looks like I'm gonna have to take that back. Somehow they got labeled for export, but if googled, people claim they are old tank binoculars. Probably some mil surplus that got repacked for export.
https://www-astronomy-ro.translate.goog/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14703&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=5168896e7d852f94330e9fc83ca1ef19&_x_tr_sl=ro&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
This guy goes even more in depth.
https://forum-astronomie-de.translate.goog/threads/das-innenleben-bildstabilisierender-fernglaeser.337941/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
>It's probably a weird ass Russian only fackin connector
Maybe, but it looks like a pretty standard connector for industrial and military use, almost certainly a copy of something from:
https://www.amphenol-aerospace.com/products/circular-connectors
OHЦ-БC-1-4/10-B1-1-B 9310И
punch into yandex
Looks like a pretty standard Amphenol type bayonet connector.
That part you're holding in your hand looks like it's an empty hollow part? Can you show the inside of that in a pic? Looks like it might be a battery compartment and you open it up to change the battery?
Yes, it is a battery compartment I believe. Grabbing another pic now. This swivels open and closed.
half of the text
probably just a part number for the electrical connector. Anyway, that "И" character at the end of the number is Cyrillic, so it could easily be Russian.
rest of it
Ok it's Russian as fuck. There's what appears to be a date stamp of 81 in there too.
That reverse N character is why I thought it was Russian but the on and off switch is in English and the serial number?(not sure if it is that) has a very weird non Cyrillic letter in front of it.
Maybe the previous owner got it in a non-functional state and had to put in some replacement parts
Lol, no. The On/Off is molded directly into that swing-out cover which seems to be a battery holder. It's not some random unrelated spare part, it's fundamental to the device.
post more pics OP, like the bottom. Is there some kind of mounting feature under there? also, what's that silver rectangular thing that's a little below and between the two eyepieces? Looks like that might be some kind of logo, though perhaps faded?
Found something similar on Yandex reverse image search. That thing is 100% Russian btw.
https://guns.allzip.org/topic/100/2467549.html
idk but they look cool as fuck
bingo
https://guns.allzip.org/topic/328/1403988.html
holy shit this is it! Thanks!! I wonder what they do when they are powered on... If it is just a 9V system I will play around with it and try to get them to work.
>I wonder what they do when they are powered on...
see
1980's Russian Peleng 1240GS image stabilized binos.
cool as fuck
I picked up a set of a US Equivalent to these awhile back (Specifically an XM21). The XM-21 is interesting because it's actually a monocular as the image only goes to one eyepiece, the other eyepiece goes to nothing (Presumably they were too cheap to make it stabilize an image for both eyes and thought having one eye stabilized would cause issues). They're pretty cool and mine still work but it's been a bitch to find info on them. I actually exchanged a few emails with the company that made them, since my model was 40+ years old it took a bit for me to convince them it was even their product and after I did they didn't actually have any information to give me.
Very cool, the rubber eye cups look swag
>XM-21
>Fraser Optics
Damn, I used to drive past their building in SE Pennsylvania. They're in a really small plant that's barely larger than a CVS. They seem like the company that sells only a few thousand binos to the government and a couple of civvies with money to burn every year. I doubt they keep extensive records or publish info about their past products online.
Yeah, I'm not surprised they didn't have anything as the people who worked on it would be long gone but I figured it was worth trying. The main thing I was trying to find was information on running the unit on external power. It takes regular batteries but mine has an external power cable that's not mentioned or shown in the manual I have. I was hoping they might have used the same style plug on newer devices but that doesn't seem to have been the case.
Pretty cool find OP.
ah already solved. neato
I solved it using Yandex reverse image search. I don't know how the rusnaggers do it but their reverse image search is almost always better than Google's.
every information-seeking product associated with google is a pale shadow of what it once was. this is deliberate on their part and won't be abruptly reversing anytime soon, unfortunately. yandex is barely keeping its head above water in light of the war situation. it's not that yandex is getting better, it's just that western bigtechs are gimping search so goddamn hard.
playing the major civilisations off each other is the only viable path thru the information age. imo we can comfortably expect for the relative usefulness of internet services hosted in A-land vs. B-land or C-land to wax and wane like this for as long as we still have our marbles and want to look stuff up.
the post-GMO generations will be smart enough not to shrink in terror at the prospect of Search Thought Crimes and that'll be that
OP here.
I have also been noticing Google and various other search engine dropping off in quality majorly especially in the past two years. Is there actual proof of this other than our own experiences? Someone or something needs to call them out on this...
It's a mix of two things. he first is Google actively skews the results it gives. (And in some cases even adds "shadow" words to your search in order to do so). Part of this is wanting to push you to shit they have a stake in and partly because they're now catering to the lowest common denominator who is only going to go to youtube/facebook/reddit/mainstream news sites rather than niche information so they tweek everything in favor of those results. The second is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies who actively try game the system to push shitty ads in place of actual useful information. Shit has gotten worse over the years as there's a constant fight between SEO companies and Google. Google wants you to see their results so they're always tweaking how they skew stuff in favor of their services and the SEO companies are always coming up with new ways to get past the skew, meanwhile actual useful information has nobody trying to game the system in order for it show up in results so it sinks lower and lower into the abyss.
how do I find random pieces of surplus antiquated military tech like this? I assume it's cheap too
>find people selling random old equipment
>99% of time it will be absolute junk and nothing good
>9/10 of that one percent it's police surplus or extremely common miltary clothing/nylon gear
>1/10 it's military shit that isn't the standard clothing and nylon gear
>19/20 of that time it's military AH KNOW WHAT AW GAWT or all the good shit is gone
Search places people sell old junk a lot and maybe you'll find it. Or not. Most of the time it's nothing interesting anyways. I have some stuff in waterproof metal cases no one wants but I didn't want scrapped just because it was free and was going innatrash otherwise. I mean really uninteresting junk that has no use unless you have a specific part of a specific piece of uninteresting equipment.
thanks anon, any websites/methods in particular you would recommend for finding potentially /k/ junk?
Websites? I don't look online unless it's Apex (which is usually massively overpriced as every surplus site for anything interesting anymore). Methods? Have no job or absurd amounts of free time and find literally EVERY place people gather to sell junk. Look through local papers, look through local listing sites, look on local facebook junk selling sites, look at places that people set up weekly to sell, look everywhere for sales. And just go. You never know. It's more luck than anything except for getting there before other people. Then you also have to fight the other sellers because they often go around really early - sometimes before the place even fucking opens - and get the good deals to mark them up and immediately sell them. Just like gun shows. PS: I am not OP.
OP here.
I recommend getting autistically into camping and other activities using Milsurp and combing through FB marketplace and craigslist for your local areas to fuel your new gear addiction. I found a sweet Fero Z51 NV scope a while back that just need resoldering and it works! I am planning to mount on an M1A once it finally arrives.
I also love fixing old and new things so I just know when something looks like it might be a juicy find after having bought loads of junk.
Nice. I too love the older starlight stuff. Baby that tube in the Z51, they aren't available anymore.