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

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

if they buy "a small number of Swarovski and Kahles scopes", and knowing they have the largest army and police force by head count in the whole world, wouldn't that necessitate the implication that the rest, which is the vast majority of their army and police, do not use Khale and Swarovski?

The same argument in your title can be applied to Americans too. Some American police force and special forces use S&B and maybe Khales. recently the US Marine is looking at using The SMASH scope, an Israeli outfit. Does this mean the US army does not even trust US scopes?

New Zealand too makes various firearm parts. Am I right in saying that no New Zealand firearm part marker has a current contract with New Zealand military or police? does that may what we produce are sub-standard and not worth using? surely it would not mean that.

Different applications demand different grade of gear. There is no denial that Khales is better than any Chinese brand so where there is critical application, using important superior gear is warranted. But it does not mean for less critical applications lesser gear cannot or is not used.

Looks like you didn't read the article or my post above yours that outlines how the PLA did use a Chinese made 3-9x but the company went out of business (quality control issues?).

The fact is that for every one Chinese company that is slowing improving it's product quality, there are probably 10 out there that are still cutting corners and there are probably another 10 new companies coming into the market by cutting even more corners.

China has not been able to shake off the shackles of low-quality manufacturing because they do have embarrassingly poor quality control issues.

The biggest problem I see with most Chinese scopes is a high return rate/high defect rate, and to achieve low return rates usually requires the optics company to self-manage quality control on site at the Chinese factory. And the on site quality control team have to work 24/7, as even good quality on one model scope line doesn't guarantee good quality on another line.

The image below can be used for rifle scopes as well....