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I agree with Jonathan. It seems to be a very low-tech, solid steel ring gear assembled and riveted together from 4 distinct parts. Not very aero-spacey at all..

• cjbgkagh 2y ago
  What other industries use rivets? Wouldn’t most non-aerospace use welds?
  • mapt 2y ago
    The size and shape alone says either rocketry or a piece of a jet turbine. And lacking any obvious plane crashes nearby... M-V (Japan) Epsilon (Japan) Athena (US) Rokot (USSR) Soyuz-U (USSR) Soyuz-FG (Russia) Simorgh (Iran) ... many more There are a comical number of options with parts that have a diameter somewhere in the 2.3-2.7m range.