After the founding of the People's Republic of China, my country has never stopped its pace of development. After a period of catching up, it has changed its backwardness and achieved comprehensive development in agriculture, industry, and technology. Among them, the achievements in the economic field are the most amazing. It has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy. In terms of economic aggregates, the gap between China and the United States is getting smaller and smaller, although my country is still a veritable developing country. However, in the eyes of many Western countries, China's strength has surpassed most developing countries.
The economic foundation determines the superstructure. Through the unremitting efforts and development of our people, our country has also made amazing achievements in the field of militarization. The shortage of weapons and ammunition for our ancestors has long been a thing of the past. With the continuous enhancement of our military strength, we The military's weapons and equipment are becoming more and more advanced, and the technical level in some areas has even achieved curve overtaking, leading the world. In this case, someone pointed out that since my country's military strength is already so strong, why is the People's Liberation Army rarely equipped with a scope on its rifles? As the country with the strongest military strength, the United States has standard scopes on their army rifles.
In fact, this question is easy to answer. Although our country is already the second largest economic power in the world and its military strength is second only to the United States and Russia, if you compare it carefully, China is undoubtedly lagging behind the United States. Because of the strong economic power of the United States, the military expenditure of the US military has always been higher than that of our country. It is reported that the military expenditure of the US military in one year has exceeded the sum of the military expenditures of half of the countries in the world. It is more sophisticated, not to mention that the scope is just a small accessory, but its development cost is very high, at least more than several thousand yuan, so if the scope is to be popularized in the army, a large military expenditure is required.
In addition to economic reasons, the national development strategy is also one of the reasons. Because the United States is keen on pursuing hegemonism and has provoked wars many times, the probability of the US military participating in the war is high, and the weapons naturally need to be better equipped. And China has been unswervingly following the path of peaceful development, striving to seek a stable environment to enhance my country's economic and military strength, and will not rely on its own strength to bully other countries, so the direction of our military construction has always been Pay more attention to defense, although large-scale military exercises will be held many times. Let the soldiers simulate combat, but because they did not really participate in the war, rifles without scopes can already meet the development needs of our army.
For most ordinary soldiers, the rifles used are indeed not equipped with scopes, except for special forces and snipers. This is mainly because they have different combat missions, but even if ordinary soldiers do not equip their rifles with scopes, they can reach within 100 meters. The level of hitting the target basically meets the current development and combat needs of our army. For various reasons, the People's Liberation Army did not make the scope popular in the military.
