So my friend came back from his last tour of the sandbox last year. I went to see him last weekend and he asked me to come down with him to his safe. He opened it up and showed me the following. He said he dug it up at a weapons cache near Fallujah.
He asked me if I knew what it was. I told him I didn’t, but I’d find out. We took some pictures, which are below.
There are no US Gov’t markings, nor “US Property” markings, so I’m highly doubting that it’s stolen. The manual says it has a thermal insert and can be used as a thermal scope. We haven’t tried to turn it on, so no idea if it works.
So… what is this thing? Is it worth trying to get it to run? Is it worth anything?
i’d like to say it may be a scope for the russian sniper rifles, dragonuv, but im not expert. had alot of those type scopes go thru my hands back in '04 when captured enemy ammo was still being brought onto base instead of blown inplace
Have to agree with Templar, seen a few of those back in 91-92 when Republican Guard surrendered to our unit. Of course I think our LT sent some home as “souvenirs”. But he did get us drunk alot, good trade.
PS he must have dug deep lol, or was it a “market” find?
Probably is a Chinese export model of the scope. It is not worth much, especially in that condition. The scope that are worth something are the Iraqi marked scopes, made in Iraq.
Here is a cleaner photo of the same kind of scope…
IG my brother you need an 8404 who knows how to smuggle items in containers marked and sealed as medical equipment. Although I am quite sure things are more stringent these days.
I’m pissed too. All I wanted to take home was a freaking bayonet. We tried like hell to talk to our chain of command about letting us take home some of the pistols and SKS’s we took from soldiers or found in bunkers. We were threatened with 6 years and $10,000 in fines. I threw the bayonet into the amnestey barrel, you should have seen some of the shit in there, grenades, pistols, AK’s, man what a waste!
We found out a few days later we could have kept our bayonets.
I gave up an AK bayonet and quite a few AK parts I saved from the AK’s we destroyed. The under-folder below was one of numerous we destroyed one afternoon.
This AK below I cleaned up and we presented to our Squadron CO. It was supposed to have been shipped back to Germany. Don’t know for sure if it ever made it. Supposedly some of our captured weapons ended up in the 1AD museum.
Now speaking of digging things up…we literally dug this motorcycle out of a sand berm.
During the cease fire, sitting in Iraq on the border to Kuwait, Top came up to a couple of us one day and says “Grab a couple shovels out of an OVM, I have a surprise for you guys.”
Top took us out to the spot where this Iraqi East German built MZ motorcycle was completely buried. Only one grip was sticking out of the sand.
It took us days of cleaning up, and parts off three other motorcycles we found, to get this one in operation. To get it started, we wired up a PRC77 battery. With the clutch cable inoperative, we needed a push and a dump into gear to get going, but this motorcycle kept us entertained through the boring sitting out of the Cease Fire.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will destroy 8,300 confiscated weapons Tuesday at a steel mill in Rancho Cucamonga.
…Deputy Bill Brauberger, who described the event as a celebration for the Sheriff’s Department.
“It’s pretty exciting and very visual,” said Brauberger, who attended the event last year.
…Tamco donates its furnace, equipment and personnel to convert the weapons into rebar and will allocate the steel from the melted weapons to be used for upgrades to freeways and bridges…
This year’s event will begin at 5 a.m. Tuesday, he said.
They should sell them and put the proceeds back into the educational system or their bankrupt economy.
We found this beast buried in a field in Helmand Province back in '08. It’s a ZPU-1.
These are the markings that were on the feed tray cover. I have no idea what they mean (except that one is the serial number) but I figured it was worth capturing in a picture in case somebodyelse could.
