Unfortunately the BELOMO and other ex-Soviet factory scopes often seem to be designed to use available parts and designs rather than meet user needs/market requirements
It took the ex-soviet factories who knows how many years to figure out that scopes with a ballistic cam for 7.62x54R were of limited interest to people using other calibres.
Finally they produced a 1MOA graduated elevation scale; I don't know if 1/2MOA or 1/4 MOA has ever been produced.
It's pretty obvious that a 1.5-6 zoom or a 1-4 zoom with long eye relief would sell, but a fixed 8x?
No one I'm aware of is producing a milspec scout rifle scope in say 1-4x, or the mounts for one.
With their lower manufacturing costs they could be providing ballistic cams with their scopes for all kinds of calibres and bullet weights. It's not like the data isn't available and the cams don't cost much to produce once the design is worked out. At least they could work out a range card for different calibres. That would be a selling point for a lot of people.
They seem to love overly high mounts too. Their side rail is a great system, but no one bothers to make suitable bases for common commercial rifles, or mounts of the appropriate height.
You'd also think that by now they could engrave the adjustment markings on the knobs in English and include a proper translation of the manuals. How hard would that be?
They can certainly produce the goods in the former Soviet Union, but I guess they're just not that interested in the export trade. Perhaps they feel what they have is "good enough", and the idea of designing products to create sales, rather than fill a basic requirement is still foreign to their way of thinking and operating.
But with IOR scopes getting so expensive there is now a good opening for milspec glass at a lower price.
Even now, most of the people selling this stuff in NA don't seem to have much a clue about the info that potential buyers and users would need. Or much interest in getting it, from what I've seen.
