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First time user. Came across some war relics from the mid to late 20th century. This is the first one, I believe it is an anti-aircraft sight for an unknown weapon. Any help would be appreciated...Thanks!

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I've never seen that character in the top on the right before. Is it from the second round of simplifications perhaps?

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28 minutes ago, Lu said:

I've never seen that character in the top on the right before. Is it from the second round of simplifications perhaps?

I tried looking and zdic seems to suggest it's a variant form of 形: http://www.zdic.net/z/8d/js/22488.htm Not sure what 缩形 would mean as a compound if that's true but you can imagine possibilities that might fit

ETA Checking again I see it's also a second-round simplification of 影 and 缩影 seems to be used for aircraft silhouette which would fit.

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缩影  - at a guess it's 'shrunken silhouette'? - the silhouette appears 1/4, 1/2, etc, the size of some reference silhouette. Combine that with speed and it tells you how far ahead of the target to shoot?

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Thanks for all the input thus far, it's really appreciate it. Are there direct translations for each specific character that could be provided?

Thanks!

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5 hours ago, Gorgosaurus said:

Are there direct translations for each specific character that could be provided?

目标 Target

速度 Speed

米 m

秒 s

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