Backup Iron Sights spawn locations on Sakhal

Backup Iron Sights (Optics & attachments › Optics) spawns on Sakhal: the economy keeps about 7.5 on the map at a time. It can lie in 810 buildings. Most of them are Military buildings. It also spawns at events: Boat military and Heli crash.

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On other maps: Chernarus+, Nasdara, Livonia, Namalsk, Raman, DeerIsle Experimental

It lies on the ground for about 8 h before the game removes it.

Best building types

The chance to find at least one in a single building of that type, on a visit to a full server.

Building	Loot Type	How many	Chance in one
Industrial building	Military	1	4 %
School	Residential	1	3 %
Barracks	Military	78	3 %
Airfield HQ	Military	4	3 %
Factory	Industrial	2	3 %
Fire station	Military	2	2 %
Military tent	Military	47	2 %
Garages	Industrial	26	2 %
Control tower	Military	8	2 %
Launch control	Military	2	2 %

Event spawns

Event	Sites	Chance at one
Boat military	23	1 %
Heli crash	24	2 %

Best areas

Area	Copies expected	Chance to find one
Cherny Mys	2.1	88 %
Burukan	1.1	68 %
Dudino	1.1	67 %
Tugur	0.6	46 %
Neran	0.4	30 %
Petropavlovsk-Sakhalskiy	0.3	29 %
Pik Volchiy	0.3	25 %
Ledyanoy Greben	0.2	21 %
Sakhalskaya Geoes	0.2	19 %
Nogovo	0.2	18 %

Underground

Area	Copies expected	Chance to find one
Warheadstorage hall chambers Dark: bring a light	0.2	15 %
Warheadstorage facility back rooms large Dark: bring a light	<0.1	5 %

Comes attached to or inside

M4-A1 33 %

More Optics

These are estimates for a full server from the game's loot files, as the Map's Item Filter shows them: each item's count on the map spread over every building and event site that can hold it. A looted server has less.