Each colour code reflects the main purpose of the component or the nature of the facility in question, according to the following scheme: For this reason, I have developed a new system of icons for components and planetary facilities that consists of simple pictures made of just 1 colour upon a dark background. They are as ugly as they are unintelligible and their poor look makes it extremely difficult to understand designing, which is arguably the single most relevant variable of the balance of power within your war-thorned galaxy. Sometime post 1989, they were being operated as “docter optics” and appearing on some extremely nice sporting rifles made by people like Medwell and Perrit.Vanilla icons defile the eye as much as they escape the intellect. I don’t know whether anyone is continuing with Jena’s rifle scopes now. It was in really good condition, i was very tempted. There was a 35mm late model practika slr camera in a local pawn shop recently, for £7. The Hartblei versions were also available with lens and film mag mounts (and quality) compatible with their step siblings manufactured in Sweden and East Germany (Hasselblad and Pentacon/Practika). I haven’t looked for them recently, but Hartblei, who make extremely nice tilt and shift lenses, were at one time selling 6cm x 6cm format Arsenal camera bodies, that they had added internal reflection surpressing flocking, buffers, new gears and new springs to, along with Arsenal lenses that they had multi coated and assembled correctly (I’m guessing that some Soviet era Arsenal employees may have been a bit too keen on the vodka)
Iirc, equipment, designs and key personnel were looted from Jena by the Soviet occupation, and taken to the arsenal at Kiev The rifle scopes were available in 4x and 6x, and with very nice dedicated quick detachable mounts for the various lengths of Brno zkk rifles, that retained their zero.Įastern block optics lacked the “features” of Japanese stuff, or the quality finish of West German and Austrian optics, but had sound design, gave solid performance and (because they were exported at a heavy discount in order to get foreign currency to buy imports), they were excellent value. The Ziess Jena optics were actually very very good Little else is known about these rifles here in the US, and the only reason we have examples of them like this is because eCentury International Arms imported about 600 around the year 2000. The gun overall weighs in at 11 pounds, and handles like a nice precision rifle. The scope is a 4x Zeiss Jena model, with a simple German post reticle. The barrel is well made, and the gun is capable of pretty good accuracy when used with quality ammunition. The SSG82 is an interesting microcosm of East Germany – good engineering, but lousy finishing touches. It was developed for the internal security services rather than the army, however, and only about 2,000 appear to have been made, all the the Ernst Thälmann factory in Suhl. Alongside, they also wanted a precision rifle using the new cartridge, and that became the SSG (Scharfschützengewehr) 82. When East Germany received the technical data package for the 5.45x39mm cartridge, they began a program to make their own AK-74 model. Lot 3533 in the September 2019 RIA auction.