Thread: P.L.A don't even use Chinese Scopes

Originally Posted by bunji

I have wondered for years why China,Russia etc have not reversed engineered Trijicon type sights & Red dots for use in their Military after all these years of them falling into the other sides hands,even the Russian special forces use American sights .

Well they did try and produce a local rifle scope. Going off the article linked:

"The Chinese Army's QBU-88 rifle did use a Chinese made scope (Chinese copy based on a Swarovski optical design from the 1990s), but it's no longer being made since its manufacturer, Pearl River Optronic, went out of business a couple years back."

Makes you wonder how a company can go out of business with a government contract to supply close to 2 million scopes! (PLA's total manpower around 2 million).

Maybe the Chinese company's marketing department shouldn't have offered their 'no questions asked lifetime scope warranty' to the military