Reflex Scope PC-12
The collimator sight PK-12 was designed by the scientific and production unitary enterprise “Scientific and Technical Center LEMT”, which is part of a large Belarusian holding BelOMO. The company was founded in 1992 in the framework of structural restructuring. At present STC "LEMT" ("Lasers in ecology, medicine, technology") consists of four design bureaus, as well as pilot and mass production. The company, located in Minsk, specializes in research, development, production and modernization of various optical-electronic and laser devices, both civilian and military.
The BelOMO brand itself needs no introduction. The Belarusian Optical-Mechanical Association has a rich history and is one of the largest optical companies in Eastern Europe. It was created in 1971 on the basis of the Minsk Mechanical Plant. He was one of the leaders of the optical industry of the Soviet Union, here the tasks of civil and military instrument engineering were successfully solved. The company gained great fame thanks to one of the most popular SLR cameras in world history - the famous Zenit-E camera.
One of the new Belarusian manufacturers is the PC-12 collimator sight. According to the official website of the manufacturer, it is designed for automatic assault weapons, including equipped with grenade launchers. It can withstand loads up to 1000g for a short time. The PC-12 sight provides operation in various background illumination conditions: from white winter snow on a bright sunny day to nighttime conditions of use when the shooter uses a night-vision device.
In the modern world, collimator sights are becoming more common not only in the military sphere, commercial models are actively used by hunting enthusiasts. The collimator sight has a very important advantage compared to traditional open sights - the speed of aiming with its use is about 2-3 times higher. This is a very important feature in the conditions of a fleeting modern battle. When aiming with a collimator sight, the shooter must combine only two points - the red luminous mark that the shooter sees through the eyepiece and, in fact, the goal itself, while the eye of the arrow is accommodated at a distance from the target (in mechanical sights - usually on the front sight, the sight and the target visible out of focus).
The Belarusian collimator scope PC-12 is also known by its export designation PC-28S. The sight was, on its own initiative, created by the specialists of the STC LEMT BelOMO especially for the promising Russian AK-12. This sight was created taking into account the advanced experience in the creation and operation of army collimator sights, it meets all the most important criteria for such sights, which are applied to commercially available general military equipment:
- maximum simplicity of the sight design;
- long duration of work and use of standard batteries - AA battery;
- small dimensions;
- high resistance to critical overloads.
The latter property is not accidental, it was dictated by the need to share a fighter and a collimator sight on the machine, and grenade launchers such as GP-25, GP-30 and GP-34. During a shot from a grenade-launcher grenade launcher of this line there is a significantly greater recoil momentum than when fired from another equally common, but already American, M203 grenade launcher. At the same time, the machine itself in combat conditions is subject to significant overloads, which leads to the loosening of the main components and a decrease in the service life of the firearm and its “body kit”. Modern electronics to such shock loads is even more susceptible. Very often this leads to knocking down the amendments, as well as disrupting the functioning of collimator and optical sights, causing damage. Taking this into account, the Belarusian developers, while designing the PC-12 sight, laid a higher load threshold - up to 1000g (with the standard for such sights - 300-500g).
The developers proceeded from the fact that in modern war the under-grenade launcher became almost an integral part of the machine gun. For example, during the fighting on the territory of Chechnya, grenade launchers were equipped with up to 90% of all machine guns. And in the modern Russian ADS machine gun, which is designed for combat swimmers, the 40-mm under-barrel grenade launcher is an integrated part of the weapon itself, that is, the ADS is already in essence a rifle-and-grenade launcher complex.
From a technical point of view, the Belarusian PC-12 collimator sight is a further development of a whole line of BelOMO PC-01 sights, which are currently produced in 8 in various modifications and are analogous to Aimpoint's Swedish collimator sights 2. In particular, the modification of this sight PK-3ВС was adopted by the Ministry of Defense and the border troops of the Republic of Belarus.
The sight belongs to the collimators of the closed type. It is mounted in a massive cylindrical sealed enclosure (able to withstand immersion to a depth of 5 meters). Front and rear sight can be closed with hinged covers. The lens diameter was increased to 28 mm, this is done to increase the field of view. The aiming mark is made in the form of a red dot with angular dimensions 1,5 MOA, it has 8 of different brightness gradations for working in different lighting conditions. Even with a minimum battery charge, the sight can function, it carries out adjustment of the brightness of the aiming mark depending on the degree of battery discharge.
The sight is able to function in the temperature range from -50 to + 50 degrees Celsius, which is a good indicator for such devices and makes the scope suitable for use in arctic conditions and in the subarctic climate, unlike most Western European sights, which are designed for freezing temperatures -25 ..- 30 degrees. The sight is powered from the only standard AA battery, which is located in a cell on the side of the sight, so to change the battery there is no need to remove the sight from the weapon. The mass of the PC-12 sight does not exceed 300 grams. Experts note that in the near future the civilian version of this collimator sight can also enter the market, which will be in demand provided the product is adequately priced. There is a demand for such products from hunters and shooters-athletes, especially when it comes to reliable and durable optics.
Information sources:
http://www.znk.by/arhiv/04_06_2016/lemt.pdf
http://lemt.by/pritsel-kollimatornyiy-pk-12
https://www.all4shooters.com/ru/strelba/optika/NTTS-LEMT-BelOMO-novyy-kollimatornyy-pritsel-PK-12
http://belomo.by
The BelOMO brand itself needs no introduction. The Belarusian Optical-Mechanical Association has a rich history and is one of the largest optical companies in Eastern Europe. It was created in 1971 on the basis of the Minsk Mechanical Plant. He was one of the leaders of the optical industry of the Soviet Union, here the tasks of civil and military instrument engineering were successfully solved. The company gained great fame thanks to one of the most popular SLR cameras in world history - the famous Zenit-E camera.
One of the new Belarusian manufacturers is the PC-12 collimator sight. According to the official website of the manufacturer, it is designed for automatic assault weapons, including equipped with grenade launchers. It can withstand loads up to 1000g for a short time. The PC-12 sight provides operation in various background illumination conditions: from white winter snow on a bright sunny day to nighttime conditions of use when the shooter uses a night-vision device.
Photo: lemt.by
In the modern world, collimator sights are becoming more common not only in the military sphere, commercial models are actively used by hunting enthusiasts. The collimator sight has a very important advantage compared to traditional open sights - the speed of aiming with its use is about 2-3 times higher. This is a very important feature in the conditions of a fleeting modern battle. When aiming with a collimator sight, the shooter must combine only two points - the red luminous mark that the shooter sees through the eyepiece and, in fact, the goal itself, while the eye of the arrow is accommodated at a distance from the target (in mechanical sights - usually on the front sight, the sight and the target visible out of focus).
The Belarusian collimator scope PC-12 is also known by its export designation PC-28S. The sight was, on its own initiative, created by the specialists of the STC LEMT BelOMO especially for the promising Russian AK-12. This sight was created taking into account the advanced experience in the creation and operation of army collimator sights, it meets all the most important criteria for such sights, which are applied to commercially available general military equipment:
- maximum simplicity of the sight design;
- long duration of work and use of standard batteries - AA battery;
- small dimensions;
- high resistance to critical overloads.
Photo: lemt.by
The latter property is not accidental, it was dictated by the need to share a fighter and a collimator sight on the machine, and grenade launchers such as GP-25, GP-30 and GP-34. During a shot from a grenade-launcher grenade launcher of this line there is a significantly greater recoil momentum than when fired from another equally common, but already American, M203 grenade launcher. At the same time, the machine itself in combat conditions is subject to significant overloads, which leads to the loosening of the main components and a decrease in the service life of the firearm and its “body kit”. Modern electronics to such shock loads is even more susceptible. Very often this leads to knocking down the amendments, as well as disrupting the functioning of collimator and optical sights, causing damage. Taking this into account, the Belarusian developers, while designing the PC-12 sight, laid a higher load threshold - up to 1000g (with the standard for such sights - 300-500g).
The developers proceeded from the fact that in modern war the under-grenade launcher became almost an integral part of the machine gun. For example, during the fighting on the territory of Chechnya, grenade launchers were equipped with up to 90% of all machine guns. And in the modern Russian ADS machine gun, which is designed for combat swimmers, the 40-mm under-barrel grenade launcher is an integrated part of the weapon itself, that is, the ADS is already in essence a rifle-and-grenade launcher complex.
From a technical point of view, the Belarusian PC-12 collimator sight is a further development of a whole line of BelOMO PC-01 sights, which are currently produced in 8 in various modifications and are analogous to Aimpoint's Swedish collimator sights 2. In particular, the modification of this sight PK-3ВС was adopted by the Ministry of Defense and the border troops of the Republic of Belarus.
Photo: lemt.by
The sight belongs to the collimators of the closed type. It is mounted in a massive cylindrical sealed enclosure (able to withstand immersion to a depth of 5 meters). Front and rear sight can be closed with hinged covers. The lens diameter was increased to 28 mm, this is done to increase the field of view. The aiming mark is made in the form of a red dot with angular dimensions 1,5 MOA, it has 8 of different brightness gradations for working in different lighting conditions. Even with a minimum battery charge, the sight can function, it carries out adjustment of the brightness of the aiming mark depending on the degree of battery discharge.
The sight is able to function in the temperature range from -50 to + 50 degrees Celsius, which is a good indicator for such devices and makes the scope suitable for use in arctic conditions and in the subarctic climate, unlike most Western European sights, which are designed for freezing temperatures -25 ..- 30 degrees. The sight is powered from the only standard AA battery, which is located in a cell on the side of the sight, so to change the battery there is no need to remove the sight from the weapon. The mass of the PC-12 sight does not exceed 300 grams. Experts note that in the near future the civilian version of this collimator sight can also enter the market, which will be in demand provided the product is adequately priced. There is a demand for such products from hunters and shooters-athletes, especially when it comes to reliable and durable optics.
Information sources:
http://www.znk.by/arhiv/04_06_2016/lemt.pdf
http://lemt.by/pritsel-kollimatornyiy-pk-12
https://www.all4shooters.com/ru/strelba/optika/NTTS-LEMT-BelOMO-novyy-kollimatornyy-pritsel-PK-12
http://belomo.by
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