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I looked up for Italian Konus Pro F30 8-32×56 scope that Aspar Arms is using on black arrow. It's a bit low end product. It is made in China.
I have disassembled several scopes and also looked at construction diagrams of several others. There are two key elements in it.
The lenses and crosshair turrets. Diffrence between cheap and expensive (reliable one) is the construction of turrets and clarity.
I miself consider turrets to be the most important as it holds the accuracy of cross hair. Some western products have amazing light gathering clarity. But if it cannot hold accuracy then it's worthless.
If scope is not accurate and POI (point of impact) starts drifting all of a sudden (you can zero it in range and then shots later this can happen) , average army sniper cannot know right away, why is this happening. Is he missing because of his own poor aiming or what.
This can be tragic.
I thought that our guys are making night vision equipment allready. From that to rifle scopes is only very short steps. They should make our own.
The quality high end scopes have turrets made out of cryogenically normalized brass, with super fine pitch threads, a good solid click stopper design, what they call "a plunger", (all made of prime metal materials) and good compression coil springs or highest grade normalized/tempered double leaf spring pushing crosshair against both axis turrets with the same solid pressure regardless of how compressed they are, how many compression cycles they have gone through and how outside temperature changes. Not leaf springs like most Chinese, Russian or who knows which cheap ones have. Most hunting or standard ( not tactical or cheap tactical) scopes have one single leaf spring made out of regular spring stock, pushing crosshair against both axis turrets. After some time, and specially if you are resetting your elevation and windage because of ballistics adjustments at long distances, the spring may change or loose pressure and your zero point (POI)will drift out of accuracy.
Another thing is the clicker stop. I have seen Chinese use plunger with nylon tip instead of metal tip. When your scope is new, the turrets will turn with sharp clicks and hold very good where you stop. You will think "wow, nice". But soon the clicks get softer even dissapear and the turret may start turning. Specially on big caliber guns.
Or the turrets will develop a slack ( which I have seen even on brand new Chinese and Warsaw Pact scopes) that translates to 2-4 meter fly out on 1000 meter shot.
Making a very high quality scope in Armenia is possible. Those special coated lenses can be bought from Singapore, the high grade turret components from Europe or Japan. Then assemble in Armenia.
The special antifogging gas (Argon, etc.) injection in tube is worldwide old tech now.
This Konus Pro F30 8-32×56 is valued at $600.00 in markets. A NATO sniper (navy seal) grade scopes are valued at $5000.00 and up (most have export restrictions).
In Armenia a similar grade scope can be built for $1000.00 each.
Get a joint enterprise with Russia (they too buy scopes from around because domestic ones are sh I t) and make them in Armenia.
Added bonus will be worldwide export and diversification into civilian products like binoculars, surveying/measuring equipment.
I looked up for Italian Konus Pro F30 8-32×56 scope that Aspar Arms is using on black arrow. It's a bit low end product. It is made in China.
I have disassembled several scopes and also looked at construction diagrams of several others. There are two key elements in it.
The lenses and crosshair turrets. Diffrence between cheap and expensive (reliable one) is the construction of turrets and clarity.
I miself consider turrets to be the most important as it holds the accuracy of cross hair. Some western products have amazing light gathering clarity. But if it cannot hold accuracy then it's worthless.
If scope is not accurate and POI (point of impact) starts drifting all of a sudden (you can zero it in range and then shots later this can happen) , average army sniper cannot know right away, why is this happening. Is he missing because of his own poor aiming or what.
This can be tragic.
I thought that our guys are making night vision equipment allready. From that to rifle scopes is only very short steps. They should make our own.
The quality high end scopes have turrets made out of cryogenically normalized brass, with super fine pitch threads, a good solid click stopper design, what they call "a plunger", (all made of prime metal materials) and good compression coil springs or highest grade normalized/tempered double leaf spring pushing crosshair against both axis turrets with the same solid pressure regardless of how compressed they are, how many compression cycles they have gone through and how outside temperature changes. Not leaf springs like most Chinese, Russian or who knows which cheap ones have. Most hunting or standard ( not tactical or cheap tactical) scopes have one single leaf spring made out of regular spring stock, pushing crosshair against both axis turrets. After some time, and specially if you are resetting your elevation and windage because of ballistics adjustments at long distances, the spring may change or loose pressure and your zero point (POI)will drift out of accuracy.
Another thing is the clicker stop. I have seen Chinese use plunger with nylon tip instead of metal tip. When your scope is new, the turrets will turn with sharp clicks and hold very good where you stop. You will think "wow, nice". But soon the clicks get softer even dissapear and the turret may start turning. Specially on big caliber guns.
Or the turrets will develop a slack ( which I have seen even on brand new Chinese and Warsaw Pact scopes) that translates to 2-4 meter fly out on 1000 meter shot.
Making a very high quality scope in Armenia is possible. Those special coated lenses can be bought from Singapore, the high grade turret components from Europe or Japan. Then assemble in Armenia.
The special antifogging gas (Argon, etc.) injection in tube is worldwide old tech now.
This Konus Pro F30 8-32×56 is valued at $600.00 in markets. A NATO sniper (navy seal) grade scopes are valued at $5000.00 and up (most have export restrictions).
In Armenia a similar grade scope can be built for $1000.00 each.
Get a joint enterprise with Russia (they too buy scopes from around because domestic ones are sh I t) and make them in Armenia.
Added bonus will be worldwide export and diversification into civilian products like binoculars, surveying/measuring equipment.
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