I was told it was 80s surplus Russian nv. But I am not sure since the only writing says "made in Russian" ...... In English







Very poor picture here, mainly because I couldn't get the camera to focus, while hiding everything in line. It's much clearer than this photo represents



Runs of a single 9v battery, has a single push button on off switch, which seems to turn it on and it slowly turns of after a min or so. To is a removable infrared illumination device. Huge lens on it that says 1.5/85 on it.

Any ideas?

Often they are branded "Cyclop-1" or some such. They are a single stage GEN-1 scope, they are not great performers without IR light. Created solely for the civil market and worth maybe $100-200 at most with all the accessories.

Thanks for the info. If gen 1 is this "bad" then I really have to try a gen 3. I was impressed with this one!

 
Ohhh, I see where this is going.... This is your only warning... Once you try Gen3 there is no going back -


Trying Gen1 for the first time is like trying candy for the first time.


Trying Gen3 soon after, especially on a dark night away from city lights, is like being let into the candy story and told "Take what you want!"


It's a one-way path... Unless you want to spend $3000 on your next purchase, don't do it. Don't try it. Don't even look....


If you never know Gen3, Gen1 will seem awesome.


Regards

David.


( Why do I feel like I just did something bad in this post? )

LOL, Because you did, but it's fun to watch the new guys get introduced to the later tech and see their reaction, especially if they are impressed with the Gen 1 Russian stuff.  Poor guy will probably end up with thermal by the end of the year, it's a terminal disease.

Luckily for me I have 2 adopted kids (that each cost $$$$$+ to adopt) and the wife wants a 3rd...and there's no more year long deployments with tax free combat/hazardous duty pay to pay lawyer/adoption fees. And the sewer line needs to be fixed, dog broke 2 teeth, and 5 window panes lost their insulation...etc etc.
But I'm still putting $100 a month into the NOD piggy bank.

so true

NOD piggy bank..... Now there's an idea I could use!

I'm still impressed with this thing though.