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landtoy80
11-22-2007, 08:57 PM
I posted this on the Cetme forum and don't think I got a real answer to what it is.
I got this device in a Yugo ak mag/grenade launcher pouch.
Anyone know what it is?
Optimus Prime
11-22-2007, 09:05 PM
Some sort of range marker for use with a night-time scope maybe...?
landtoy80
11-22-2007, 09:12 PM
On the Cetme Forum it was thought to be a trail marker or a marker set out at a certain range for some sort of shooting/bombing.
Optimus Prime
11-22-2007, 09:16 PM
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/documents/TG/TECHGUID/TG238.pdf

Table 5.8 on page 128 (153 on the pdf thingy) the numbers match up with the sighting point for the yugoslavian mortor sight kit.
landtoy80
11-22-2007, 09:30 PM
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/documents/TG/TECHGUID/TG238.pdf

Table 5.8 on page 128 (153 on the pdf thingy) the numbers match up with the sighting point for the yugoslavian mortor sight kit.

How on Earth did you find that info and how is it back in WI?
I use to live in Mauston WI.
landtoy80
11-22-2007, 09:48 PM
So its a NSB-3 Mortar Sight Kit and or a NT-M70 Sighting Point.
I assume the M70 refers to the Yugo AK???
Optimus Prime
11-22-2007, 10:02 PM
According to the manual (that I found by just typing NT-M70 into Google) it's part of the NSB-3 Mortor Sight Kit, in particular the NT-M70 Sighting Point. Probably a big ol' chunk of some mild radioactive element that you can see with the night vision portion of the Sight Kit I'm guessing.
I'm not artillary, but from what I gather you set up your artillery peice on a known point, set up a flag or something, like a NT-M70 Sighting Point, on another known point to use as a backsight to turn your angle to figure out which way to shoot. My first MOS was as a surveyor, so it makes sense to me that way anyways...
Looks to me like the top number is the nomenclature of the item, and the bottom number is the radioactive rating, cause that's what matches up in that random manual...
SteelCore
11-29-2007, 07:46 AM
It's freaking cold war cool!

So, where did you get the pouch, mags and alla goodies? Thats a nice hodge podge of stuff...
landtoy80
11-29-2007, 08:01 PM
Got it from guysajer1942 when he was at a gunshow last year.
Can't remember what his web site is??????

Got it https://www.apexgunparts.com/
nevada
12-01-2007, 02:26 AM
Does it glow in the dark?

Wonder if you can get past the airport screeners while they're hasselling some 2 year old?
landtoy80
12-01-2007, 09:13 PM
Yes it glows.
Not very bright though.
landtoy80
03-13-2009, 10:08 AM
I am thinking of selling this device, where would I go to find out what its worth and where would I sell it?
Big Steve
03-13-2009, 12:37 PM
I am thinking of selling this device, where would I go to find out what its worth and where would I sell it?

I don't know if I would mail it. It might set off all kind's of sh#t!
Steve
thebufenator
03-13-2009, 03:33 PM
I jsut see black in that photo
brewskzilla
03-13-2009, 04:07 PM
Would something mildly radioactive, say, mess up someone elses radio? Something you could put in the treeline to dick with anyone who may be planning to sneak up on you in the night and launch an attack... Screw up their radio communications, perhaps? Or, maybe, just maybe, it's a commie rations mini-microwave for heating up rations... Or maybe it's a location beacon so your own guys dont bomb you. Or maybe it's a torture device. I know I wouldn't want that hanging around my pecker... Or maybe it's to keep the skeeters away. Looks like it screws in a tree, or something...
walt-oxie1
03-13-2009, 04:52 PM
The radioactive material is tritium which is the stuff used in night sights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
rustypirate
03-13-2009, 05:04 PM
Would something mildly radioactive, say, mess up someone elses radio?


No, it would require a LOT more output than anything like this would have.
45B@cav
03-14-2009, 10:42 AM
It may look dim now but check it with night vision and it's probably bright as the sun. +1 it's tritium.
jersurf101
03-15-2009, 12:51 PM
If it glows and it has the radioactive symbol on it it is probably filled with tritium. Which we should all be pretty familiar with and is harmless unless tou do a whippette off the thing. :thumbup:
wwIIBuff
03-15-2009, 01:23 PM
The radioactive material is tritium which is the stuff used in night sights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

older watches had it also
drine
03-15-2009, 03:13 PM
It's not as safe as baby food though, right? I seem to remember some tests being done in the arms room to see how much radioactivity was coming from all the sites on the weapons and such.
jersurf101
03-16-2009, 04:15 PM
lol, baby food not the best example(try reading the back and see if you can pronounce all the words on the ingredients list) Maybe some organic produce might be safer? On a serious note about one thousand tritium sights in a non ventilated room would be the at the lower end of exposure. If any of you all have worked in the nuclear navy I or fly on a regular basis I am sure you recieve a lot more radiation