Mystery Russian Equipment - any ideas what it is?

ozmo

Would anyone have any idea what this is?

I'm guessing its part of some Russian Military targeting system.
Quite heavy.
Plenty of switches, lenses, meters, warning lights, moving parts and some older style electronics (not chips - just capacitors mostly) cannot find any dates or any English text anywhere.... its a bit beat up and dusty, but its as I got it.

Google translate didn't help much with the text - but 3AXBAT seems to be a popular video gaming clan tag....

Interested in finding out what it is - and what the text means.
let me know if any other photos would help.








thanks...

ozmo

Ok - update - I just noticed how to enter Russian characters properly into google translate and came up with translations to some of the text -

sound reasonable - and Gryo and Capture sound interesting -

but still no further to knowing what this is?



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Pat Dunne

It appears that you are missing a square hinged cover / panel that sits over the smaller lens (beside the capacitors). Which more than likely would contain a focuser and a eye piece, as well as containing windows to read the black graduated cylinders top left and right.

If is mentions Gyro its quite possibly a sighting system from an AFV to enable to fire the main weapon whilst on the move.

I'd suggest checking out Soviet AFV / Tank guns sights from the mid 1950's to the early 1980's

Stovepipe

it's a gyro gunsight from a MiG, probably a MiG-21. It appears to be missing the glass reflectors and the front cover. The reflector glass should sit at an angle behind the arced range plate and the gunsight image would appear on the glass, projected up thru the domed lens behind the arced range plate.

ozmo

Stovepipe wrote: »

it's a gyro gunsight from a MiG, probably a MiG-21. It appears to be missing the glass reflectors and the front cover

Ooh, Its a MiG main HUD projector - thanks - Good spot! - I was hoping it was Aircraft, but the weight of it gave me doubts. There seems to be quite a few versions of the MiG cockpit - but the photos below look closest.

I will try find a good replacment for the thick broken HUD glass now I know what it looks like

I can see the starburst pattern in the optics even without power.
if I can power it up - I wonder will it show any of the green artificial horizon etc. I see in some cockpit photos or would that be the object in the right of the photos that produces that?




Thanks again.

Stovepipe

This is my drawing of one

Stovepipe

You are right; the drum shaped object is part of the symbol generator system, as far as I know. the rest of the gunsight is a standard gyro gunsight and the pilot was able to increase or decrease the range/widen or narrow the six-point image for air-to-air shooting or air to ground gunnery or rocketry as required, by using the twist-grip on the throttle, under his left hand. The entry of missiles into service required the sight to be upgraded to have missile "cues" for the pilot to fire the missile or, as the case may be, a cue for dropping bombs or firing unguided rockets.